On the day of the surgery it was rough and a little scary not knowing what the doctor will say afterward as well if he found anything weird or whatever the case may be. I had to stay strong especially in front of my mom, any older children teen and up, take note not to cry around the patient remember one thing that I learned, "You are NOT the Patient." they are the one going through it not YOU. I would cry around my dad get myself together and be good for my mom. we also knew going into surgery she would have to do chemotherapy no matter what so, this was the first hump to get over and it would be worse before getting better. My mom had a friend of hers surprise her and show up at the hospital because she was a volunteer there and would be able to stay with my mom longer than me or my dad would. After they put my mom to sleep her friend came out and sat with me and my dad to keep us company while waiting which was awesome and took some of the tension away from me and my dad. after the surgery was over the doctor came out and said everything went well he didn't see anything that alarmed him and we just had to wait on the results from the lab about the lymph nodes that they had removed from underneath her arm.Monday, September 24, 2007
Day Of the surgery
On the day of the surgery it was rough and a little scary not knowing what the doctor will say afterward as well if he found anything weird or whatever the case may be. I had to stay strong especially in front of my mom, any older children teen and up, take note not to cry around the patient remember one thing that I learned, "You are NOT the Patient." they are the one going through it not YOU. I would cry around my dad get myself together and be good for my mom. we also knew going into surgery she would have to do chemotherapy no matter what so, this was the first hump to get over and it would be worse before getting better. My mom had a friend of hers surprise her and show up at the hospital because she was a volunteer there and would be able to stay with my mom longer than me or my dad would. After they put my mom to sleep her friend came out and sat with me and my dad to keep us company while waiting which was awesome and took some of the tension away from me and my dad. after the surgery was over the doctor came out and said everything went well he didn't see anything that alarmed him and we just had to wait on the results from the lab about the lymph nodes that they had removed from underneath her arm.Before the Surgery
On Monday night I arrived home and was obviously still in shock of everything and everything that happened after that seemed like an awful dream and I just wanted to wake up. On Tuesday before the surgery mom had another last doctor's apointment to find out if the second lump on her right breast was cancer or not. As one could guess unfortunatley it was. The Doctor though, was AMAZING. I would hope anyone who would go through this would only get a doctor as good as him. He gave me a hug while she was in the room and said that I was holding up very well and he doesn't know why but, "It's harder on the Daughters than the mothers."
Now for some useful information for all women out there, My mom's tumor was what they call a "Hormone Induced" tumor. Now what Happened in my Mother's case was while she started to go through menopause she was taking other vitamins to help with it and unfortunately in the doctors terms, "it was adding fuel to the fire." I was in shock! Now because I'm 21 he explained it's OK for me to be on birth control and women's one a day vitamins because I'm still young and my body uses it, however once a woman reaches menopause your body doesn't need all that extra estrogen so that's extra build up. Even things like soy milk, green tea, and even some of the women's vitamins are bad because you don't need all of that extra estrogen or minerals. some of the natural herb vitamins you have to be careful about as well because when they are making it they are not measuring how much they put in and that's not always good for you depending on how long you take it.
This is an article I found On the website of breastcancer.org that is a great website for information on anything about breast cancer.
http://www.breastcancer.org/risk/environmental/new_research/20061225b.jsp
Now for some useful information for all women out there, My mom's tumor was what they call a "Hormone Induced" tumor. Now what Happened in my Mother's case was while she started to go through menopause she was taking other vitamins to help with it and unfortunately in the doctors terms, "it was adding fuel to the fire." I was in shock! Now because I'm 21 he explained it's OK for me to be on birth control and women's one a day vitamins because I'm still young and my body uses it, however once a woman reaches menopause your body doesn't need all that extra estrogen so that's extra build up. Even things like soy milk, green tea, and even some of the women's vitamins are bad because you don't need all of that extra estrogen or minerals. some of the natural herb vitamins you have to be careful about as well because when they are making it they are not measuring how much they put in and that's not always good for you depending on how long you take it.
This is an article I found On the website of breastcancer.org that is a great website for information on anything about breast cancer.
http://www.breastcancer.org/risk/environmental/new_research/20061225b.jsp
About Me
August 25th 2007 had to be the absolute worst day of my life. I live, work, and go to school in New York City which is five hours away from home where I grew up. On that day I recieved a phone call from my parents saying that they were comming up just for the day to take me out to dinner and "talk to me." at that point I knew something was wrong. School started in just another week what could be wrong? When they arrived my mom looked at me and said, "I have Breast Cancer." WOW! What a smack in the face!!! You always think, "That will never happen to me." And now here it is the worst thing I would NEVER want neither of my parents to go through after seeing my Grandfather go through it and die when I was just in second grade. I believe everything happens for a reason and my parents right before this were debating on moving to south Virginia and unfortunatly I guess this was God's way of saying not to go. Well Since the surgery was going to be on that following Thursday On Monday night is when I decided to drive home.
This blog I want to be like a journal, personal detail of what me and my family is going through to help other younger people going through the same thing as me get through it. I noticed not to many things for the children of the family so I decided to help and maybe find some sites or books to recomend as I find them. I hope this blog helps a lot of people out and even me just to write it all down because in the past month I have Learned so much that I never knew I would know.
This blog I want to be like a journal, personal detail of what me and my family is going through to help other younger people going through the same thing as me get through it. I noticed not to many things for the children of the family so I decided to help and maybe find some sites or books to recomend as I find them. I hope this blog helps a lot of people out and even me just to write it all down because in the past month I have Learned so much that I never knew I would know.
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