[Magdalen] When it rains....

[Grace Cangialosi]

Early bird can be good, Ginga! I tend to wait, sometimes longer than I should, figuring whatever it is will get better. Did that when I broke my hand in three places, because I thought it was just sprained. Waited about three weeks and by then had complications.
Just did it again. I fell during a training session about four weeks ago and landed on my shoulder. Knew it wasn't broken, just bruised, so I decided to wait, use some Tylenol and Ibuprofen. By last weekend I could hardly raise my arm, so when I went to the doctor yesterday, he said I had a frozen shoulder. So now I'm facing at least a month of PT and a heavy-duty anti-inflammatory drug.
I need to remember that I'm not 35 anymore... go to the doctor sooner rather than later!

OTOH, when I was called back a few years ago for a follow-up digital mammogram, the five days I had to wait seemed like forever...  Turned out to be nothing.


> On Oct 3, 2014, at 7:37 AM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Grace, for understanding the wait thing.  When I was first
> diagnosed, the radiologist told me that she saw some things that may be
> nothing or could be early malignancy.  She suggested that I wait 6 months
> and return for follow up mammogram.  Or, I could have a biopsy now.  I
> chose the 'now' part, because I am such a worrier.  When she called me with
> the results, she said she was floored that there were malignant cells in
> the biopsy.  (And, no more were found on lumpectomy.)  So, I'm an early
> bird.
> 
> Ginga
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Oops! Hit send by accident.  Five months would seem like an eternity in
>> that situation.
>> 
>>> On Oct 3, 2014, at 7:05 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Oh, Ginga!  Prayers for all of you. And yes, five
>>> 
>>>> On Oct 2, 2014, at 4:32 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> It pours.
>>>> 
>>>> I am surrounded by people, including myself, who have bad diagnoses or
>> are
>>>> waiting to see if they have a bad diagnosis.
>>>> 
>>>> Brother in Law - blood infection and unhealed incision from abdominal
>>>> surgery this past June.
>>>> 
>>>> Sister-in-Law - probably kidney cancer, identified on CT for something
>> else
>>>> 
>>>> Uncle - agressive bladder cancer
>>>> 
>>>> First cousin - pancreatic cancer and drug addiction, post leg amputation
>>>> for atheroscherosis
>>>> 
>>>> Friend - successful lung surgery this morning to remove lower rt.
>> lobe...a
>>>> benign, bizarre growth in lung due to congenital condition she never
>> knew
>>>> she had.
>>>> 
>>>> Friend - prostate cancer
>>>> 
>>>> Friend - will have yet another facial surgery due to a galloping form of
>>>> basal cell carcinoma.  She has had something like 30 previous surgeries
>>>> over the years I've known her...
>>>> 
>>>> Myself - had ultrasound of breast that had cancer, lumpectomy, and
>>>> radiation.  The note says that there is an area of the breast they want
>> to
>>>> recheck in 5 months to make sure it is 'normal'....now 5 months is an
>>>> eternity for a person who tends toward anxiety.
>>>> 
>>>> I think that is all.
>>>> 
>>>> Prayers requested for each and all,
>>>> Ginga
>>