never miss a thing: time to work

Monday, January 7, 2008

time to work

so- I am going back to the office tomorrow after the longest hiatus in my professional history. sooo weird! mom asked me if i was excited and despite the fact that I find it hard to be "excited" about work I have to admit that i am excited about returning to a life of a semi-normal person. School starts this weekend as well- which I am excited about that! yay!

on that note: thank you to everyone for helping me return to the land of the normal! i really appreciate your thoughts, prayers, cards and well wishes! I am so fortunate to have great family and friends and a fantastic support system that has made this time easier than i would have ever imagined. I know I am not through the hardest part but I don't think that I could have gotten through any of it without all of you.

on the dr. front, I have my first saline injection tomorrow- no clue what that is like so i'll keep you updated. i have an oncologist appt. on thursday so am hoping to get the results of the hormone receptors and learn more about treatment. exciting stuff coming up. :-)

here's a picture of semi-normal belly dancing- i think i found a new career (no dice!) ps... i got all my hair cut off. a great tip from april if i do, in fact, lose my hair. still getting used to it but it is SO much easier to maintain-- heck yeah!

3 comments:

CindyG said...: Nic-
HEY Stranger! My mom just went into your mom's shop and she filled her in on everything that's been going on with you. Please know I'm thinking about you. Reading your blog made me miss you so much! Write to me whenever you get time - I'd love to catch up.
XOXOXO
Cindy (Cassell) Goodwin; January 8, 2008 at 11:52 AM
Unknown said...: hi miss nicole. glad to get caught up on you. love, miss nicole.; January 8, 2008 at 1:58 PM
nicole said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; January 24, 2008 at 12:07 PM

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the back story:

So, a couple of months ago my mother told me that one of my good friends growing up was diagnosed with breast cancer and was currently going through chemo treatment to shrink the tumor before operating.(side note about friend: we were best friends from age 5 when they moved in behind us in the neighborhood until middle school when we moved away- we spent countless hours together and our mothers are still good friends)
so when i found out about her it got me thinking that i had not done a self exam in ages - so a few days later in the shower i found it. i read some about tumors and felt sure that it was benign but went ahead and made an appointment to get it looked at.
a few weeks later i was in the dr.s office and he shuttled me down to radiology to get it looked at. he was more alarmed at the size of the mass than the odds that it was cancerous - so he felt it was better to be safe than sorry and had me to get a sonogram and mammogram that next week. he as well as the radiologist assured that the odds were good that it was a fibroatanoma (benign fibrous tumor) but again better to play it safe and have it biopsied just to be sure.
i hadn't heard back from the doctor so i assumed no news was good news. but i will never forget him calling me back - i was in the nashville airport coming back from our girls weekend and he asked when i was back because he wanted me to come in to the office. i told him preferred to know what was going on now since obviously it was bad news. he said that normally he would rather speak to a patient about this in person but under the circumstances he understood. he then gave me the diagnoses and some numbers to call the next morning to set up appointments with surgeon and fertility specialist.
whirlwind flight back that was canceled and resulted in me having a breakdown with the gate agent (poor guy) and i was forced to spend the night in DC wondering what in the world was happening.
i have since met up with my friend from childhood and she has been invaluable to me going through all of this and i hope that we can both support each other throughout the next months... it is just too odd that we are both within a week in age, have similar upbringings and have this diagnoses so close together. all we can think of is that we both licked the paint off the barbie dream house at some point (we were both huge barbie fans and that was the majority of our play time) or there was something funky in the creek behind our neighborhood. i do plan on doing more research on this because the similarities are just too much but for now i am blaming it on the barbie dream house

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Monday, January 7, 2008

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