" You have breast cancer". I don't think any woman on earth is prepared to hear these words. I certainly wasn't. I was 39 years old. The youngest of my children was only 2. I was young. I was healthy. I was NOT READY!!!!!
No one ever is. Isn't it amazing that at that very instant you learn the true meaning of equilibrium. Your knees truly do buckle....and the floor really does drop from beneath your feet.
For an instant it is difficult to breathe and you can only think ....what about my kids...my husband...my parents. Oh GOD. Please, please not me.
Invariably, you realize that you must focus on the doctor who is rambling on about size, grade, treatment options, surgery.
And you unbeknownest to him are trying desperately to once again understand the English language. I have breast cancer.

Ines