Cancer Center – Lillies Story: breast cancer
Posted by lindainfo on June 28, 2009
Lucre cia: breast cancer survivor
My name is Lucrecia. I am 53 years old, and Im married. I have two children and three step-children. I am originally from the republic of Panama, but I have been living in Wisconsin for the last 16 years. My story begins just like any other ordinary womans story. In my forties or even before that, I noticed the early signs of menopause. I began to watch my health more closely, including having mammograms when these were not recommended for women younger than fifty years old. Since then, I have had mammogram yearly. When I was round 46 years old because of the early signs of menopause the discomfort of it. In my case it was an arythmia My doctor recommended hormone replacement therapy. So I began. I was very reluctant to have it, but I did it anyway, in order to ease the symptoms. One year followed another, and my intention was only to take it for just enough to tide me over. But as things happened, it went one year after another and pretty soon it was five years since I had been taking this hormone replacement therapy. In the meantime, I began to feel uncomfortable about my health. I didnt feel healthy, I felt like there was something wrong with me. But every time I went to the doctor there was nothing found and I didnt have any grounds to expect anything. Then in 1997 I went to have a mammogram and for some reason the doctors kept me waiting in the waiting room for some time when I requested when I asked if there was anything wrong, they couldnt reply to me.
Back in 1988, I have to turn back, I had a little scare. It was very unsettling. I went for a regular mammogram and they found some calcifications on the x-ray. But six months later the x-ray came out negative. So since then I even had even more interest in being there every year for that mammogram. And like I said in 97 that happened but it was ruled that it was okay so I went home. The time passed. When I had to go back in November, day before thanksgiving in 98 I went to get my mammogram and technician looked at me and said Are your breasts always that way? I said What way. And she said, let me take a look again at the x-rays. And she did about seven or eight compressions of my breast and she was not very satisfied. She was not satisfied and she was asking me to disrobe in order for her to see both my breasts and then thats when she asked me if they were always that way and I said, what way, and she said, one breast is bigger than the other one. No I have never noticed it that way except now with the compression I feel I was hurting, I was really, really, really hurting, and so she went on looking for a doctor an x-ray radiologist or my gynecologist and she couldnt find anybody and she asked me to be sure and call on Friday. This was Wednesday, on Friday to make sure I get in for an ultrasound and then nothing further, she didnt say anything else. At this time my breast was hurting me very much, so I came home and -I proceeded to have Thanksgiving so called normal, but I was very distraught. What I was feeling and also for the possibility of having something more serious than just a sore breast. And then on Friday when I called I went in I insisted wouldnt take no for an answer, and went for an ultrasound, and they were very flabbergasted because of what they saw. I still didnt know what was going on.
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