“So I’m just going to have another look at this area here” this one sentence interrupted my monologue on school holidays, work drama and the price of food and gave me pause to ask “oh? Why is something wrong?”
The ensuing reply stopped time “ there is a suspicious area here that I just want to check out”
“when you say suspicious……?”
” When you ask me that question I have to be honest with you, it’s highly likely that what I am seeing is cancer”
BOOM that was the sound of my world crashing down around me right there, much of what followed in the next 40 minutes I didn’t take in I recall having 4 biopsies taken in my breast and in my left axilla something about clips being inserted and then I was once again in the waiting room
i recall texting my husband to let him know what the preliminary findings were and his offer to come straight to the hospital but I said no I next found myself in a room containing two comfy sofas and thought well, if I hadn’t already guessed I know now that the news isn’t good as I’m in the room with the sofas, I remember casualty as a kid, Charlie only ever took you in the “sofa room” if there was bad news…
