Just another day – or so I thought.

June 12, 2013 – To say that life had been hectic the past few years would be an understatement. It had been three years since my last mammogram, so I was glad to finally be getting this out of the way. My appointment was at 10:45 at the Diagnostics Center at Wellington Regional. I was amazed at how smoothly it all went. I was in and out of there in 15 minutes.

Exactly one hour later I received a call from my gynocologist’s office (Dr. Halfon), “They need you to come back in for further imaging.”

It had only been one hour. Was it something bad? Did they see something or was it just a poor quality mammogram image that needed to be retaken?  I rationalized the latter and promptly set up an appointment for 2pm that same day.

While I can’t say that I was overtaken by worry, I did start to get concerned while sitting in the waiting room. I decided to look through my phone and see if there was any scripture that may jump out at me. WOW, was there ever.

“They do not fear bad news; they confidently trust the Lord to care for them.” Ps 112:7 NLT

Ok God, I get it! Thank You and I will trust You!

I have always had dense and cystic breasts. They noticed the density increased from my previous mammogram and that’s the reason they brought me back in for the ultrasound.

I watched as he performed the ultrasound and saw cyst after cyst in both breasts. Then towards the end he paused and told me he found a mass at the 11 o’clock position in my right breast. I can’t say I was necessarily worried. I almost wonder if I was in denial. I’m still not sure.

He called the Doctor in to talk to me and I was told “You have a million cysts and a solid mass in your right breast.” I laughed to myself and thought… “A million cysts. Wow!”

And so that was the beginning of a journey I never thought I would be taking.