Added: 01/25/2006 |
Your Breast Cancer DiagnosisWaiting for your breast cancer diagnosis can be a nerve-racking, trying time. From the moment of breast cancer detection, when you first find that lump in the shower all the way through to when you receive the results of the test, it almost seems like you're holding your breath. Any news, good or bad seems as if it would be better than waiting by the phone for the doctor to call with your breast cancer diagnosis. You almost think that a breast cancer detection would be better than having to worry nonstop about the whole thing, unsure as to how to live your life until you have further direction.
With my sweetheart, her breast cancer diagnosis seemed to take years to come. We waited, the two of us, next to the phone for hours and hours. We cried, the both of us. From the breast cancer detection to the breast cancer diagnosis the actual time that passed was two months. But it seemed like a lifetime.
You almost feel, after breast cancer detection, that you have to do everything you can to live your life to the absolute fullest. That is what we should be doing anyway, but when the possibility of death is near you certainly become more fully and acutely aware of the fact. Before my girlfriend's breast cancer diagnosis, while we were waiting, we went to all the restaurants we had wanted to try, saw all the movies we had wanted to watch, went all the places we had wanted to visit. And we really did have a good time. Sure, we cried a lot, but we laughed a lot too. We made it a point to have fun and to get along famously. Of course, making love was a big priority as well. And never was it better.
So in some ways, the threat of possible death has some positives. Before a woman knows her breast cancer diagnosis she is forced to think about many things she's never taken the time or energy to think about before. I am not saying that I would wish the experience on any body, but I am saying that it's not all bad. There is a positive side to every thing. For me personally knowing some body who was close to death made me so grateful for first of all that person in my life and second of all grateful to be alive and in good health. It is not something to take for granted.
In the case of my life partner, the breast cancer diagnosis did not turn out to be fatal. That is that they were able to surgically remove the lump in her breast. Although recovery took a while, she is now healthy and in good humor. As for the both of us, we have both learned so much from the experience. She has gone so far as to say she would not trade the experience for anything else in the world. I personally wish it would not have happened to her, but I do agree that we are now better people.
All this shows that breast cancer to happen to anyone and it can attack both genders. So it isn't just women that should be aware of breast cancer. Men should also be aware of the threat that comes with breast cancer, although it seems to be about 3% of men in the whole of America that do fall victim to breast cancer. This figure is obviously a lot lower then the women that fall victim to breast cancer. The survival rates are high thanks to the advances in modern medicine.
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