. In December of 1999, at the age of 46, I graduated from college at East Tennessee State University. My six month old granddaughter attended the ceremony. I was on top of the world and ready to begin searching for my career job.
One morning in Jan. of 2001 I woke up very depressed and crying. My husband called his doctor and asked him to see me. but took me any way. After a long exam and discussion, the doctor asked if I had had a mammogram, I said not and he said "Well you are going to have one now." I did and cancer was found in my right breast. I was shocking to go to the doctor for depression and find out you have cancer.
I had a massectomy and then the treatment started. The was to chemo was horrible. I was sick from day one and was hospitalized twice for dehydration.
I then began radiation. They found another lump. I prayed so hard that it was not more cancer, and it was not. I fought the battle hard and since then have become disabled due to the numerous other surgeries I had afterward. (they were not related to cancer) In 2004 a vaginal tumor was found. I had already had a hysterectomy so they were sure it was the breast cancer again, I prayed again and the tumor was not cancer. God had his hand in my life.
Just as I finished my treatment in December of 2001, my husband, who had been very sick the whole time I had cancer got much worse. During a second heart bypass, he never woke up. That was Sept. of 2002.I am still standing with no signs of cancer, I pray for everyone who faces this disease.
Johnson City, TN