Dear Robin

What a conversation piece that would have been in your home? Cocktails anyone?:)

I asked Colleen why she thinks she got breast cancer and she just said "Why not me? Who would I pick to have breast cancer in my place? Maybe God picked me to have breast cancer because he knew it would make me stronger and not take the world for granted and appreciate each and every day."

Personally, I think Colleen was fated to have breast cancer. From the moment I met her, I always had a nagging feeling that she would eventually develop breast cancer. I was always waiting for this shoe to drop and when she was diagnosed, I was shocked naturally, but I wasn't surprised. I married her knowing that dealing with all of this was going to be part of the bargain.

I even had a very vivid dream a month before she was diagnosed that she had breast cancer and the next morning I asked Colleen to schedule a mammogram. That mammogram led to an MRI which led to the needle biopsy which led to the diagnosis.

The funny thing is, I don't much believe in fate, ESP, or any of that sort of nonsense, but I always knew Colleen would eventually have breast cancer.

So for me, Colleen was just scheduled or fated to have breast cancer. It just was. No one or nothing was to blame.

After the shock and awe of my diagnosis I wanted to know WHY in a big way. Was very let down that no amount of asking or searching was going to get me my answer. So I came up with my secret recipe theory:

SECRET BREAST CANCER RECIPE

1 basic human body(genetics included)
many foodstuffs (eaten over a lifetime)
20+ years of various environmental factors
a few sprinkles of exogenous and endogenous hormones (pregnancies, nursing, birth control pills, HRT)
1 or 2 key viruses (exact virus and circumstances unknown)
some exercise (maybe not enough)
A few stress events
A dash of bad luck
A pinch of why me

Combine and bake at 98.6F for 30-60 years and

voila!!! the perfect breast cancer served on a silver pan, rush to pathology.




I am throwing out my apron....................

Well, Lee,
 

How did the oncology visit go yesterday?

I was on continuous birth control pills from 1996 after my daughter was born for bad endometriosis until the breast cancer diagnosis in 2006. I have always felt like the pills contributed largely to my breast cancer. My doctors kept trying to get me to go ahead and have my ovaries out years before to get rid of the endometriosis. I wish I had them years ago but I can't go back. The first thing the oncologist told me when I first saw him was to "get rid of those pills, you are feeding your cancer daily". I know though that God has a plan and purpose in my life for everything. When I start getting focused on the why I turn to him in prayer for comfort.

Vi:

Thanks for asking. It went better than I thought it would. Colleen chose to have 2 more chemo infusions and she will start them on August 14th with radiation starting in October.

Lee