My breast cancer was found by my husband in 1987. When we went to bed on 'that night' he laid his arm around me, his hand was on my left breast he felt & said, "What is this" I laughed and said 22 years and you have to ask?
When he told me to feel I froze and the next day I called the the UVA hospital to see how to find a doctor, as we had just moved to Virginia in late 1986.
Two weeks later I was going into surg. they had put me in the wrong exam room when I went to get it checked out, the REAL DR. came in as they send an intern to talk, and get your information... the Dr. was the real deal. The nurse came in to let him know he was in the wrong room.. but seeing me so upset and scared he told the nurse, it was ok he would talk to me!!
After the biopsy that's when he said that he was pretty sure it was going to be breast cancer... I went home, told my family. the love, support is what held me together they were my strength. In four days I was home, no follow up treatments... doing the things I was told to do... he had told me and another girl, in three days after surgery if you can reach over our head with the right hand and hold the left ear, do the same with the left hand.to your right ear.. he would say you made it. I was even doing the tieing and fastening my own clothes!
After other cancers, I look back and know it was the hand of God that lead the Dr. into my excam room, God is so great!
Ruckersville, VA