{"id":116425,"date":"2024-10-20T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116425"},"modified":"2024-10-20T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T12:30:10","slug":"i-had-aggressive-breast-cancer-heres-why-i-feel-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116425","title":{"rendered":"I Had Aggressive Breast Cancer. Here&#8217;s Why I Feel Lucky."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>In late June of last year, I was told I had three tumors that tested positive for triple negative, aggressive, invasive breast cancer. It was different from the Stage 1, HR-positive, HER2-negative tumor the size of a thumbnail I had the first time I was diagnosed with the disease 17 years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>That time I was treated quickly and declared cancer-free. This time, my cancer treatment was grueling and lasted 10 months. Still, I was lucky.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>At my annual physical last year, I told my primary care physician about the shooting pain in my left breast that I thought was due to the substantial scar tissue from my first surgery. During a palpation exam she found what turned out to be 7 centimeters of tumors \u2014 together they were bigger than a soda can top but smaller than a baseball.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>I was lucky. My doctor listened, didn\u2019t hurry me along, and didn\u2019t overbook her patients to meet the quotas required by the insurance companies or hospital administrators. She didn\u2019t insist my visit could be a video visit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>I thought about all the women in doctors\u2019 offices who are rushed, told they are fine \u2014 \u201cGo home! Don\u2019t worry!\u201d \u2014 or that the pain is all in their head. I thought about all the women who do not have access to breast health care, mammograms or doctors who listen to them. I thought about everyone who doesn\u2019t have a laptop or internet access for telehealth visits. These disparities can be fatal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>A 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/curiosity\/today-women-and-healthcare\/\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Today-Survey Monkey\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"66f8425de4b023b8021cd0b0\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/curiosity\/today-women-and-healthcare\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\">Today-Survey Monkey<\/a> poll found that more than half of women \u201csay gender discrimination towards patients is a serious problem in the health care system.\u201d The survey also shows that 21% of women compared with 14% of men say, \u201ca health care provider ignored or dismissed my symptoms.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>I was lucky. I went home and phoned the radiologist I have been seeing for a dozen years, and he scheduled me for the earliest available appointment. Using an ultrasound, he found masses that minutes earlier were not visible on a 3D mammogram or during my annual mammogram a few months earlier. The radiologist told me he would take the biopsy specimen to the lab on his way home. I cried in his office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>So many women would be told by their radiologist or health care provider that they are fine after receiving a clear mammogram. So many women would have undetected breast cancer \u2014 Stage 3 like me, or worse \u2014 and it would not show up in routine testing. And many would die because they were not believed or treated soon enough.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>I had been on Medicare for a few weeks, as I had just turned 65 that month, but the woman working my radiologist\u2019s front desk told me they did not accept Medicare. I had been insured by a major private insurer for years, so payment had never been an issue at this provider\u2019s office. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>I was told I could pay for the upcoming lab tests in monthly installments, but I needed to pay over $2,000 for that day\u2019s visit, so I handed her a credit card. I was lucky to have that option. Those who can\u2019t pay for their cancer treatments can quickly go into incredible debt, and some even lose their homes. Or they forgo treatment and die.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/md-journal\/fulltext\/2017\/12150\/disparities_in_quality_of_cancer_care__the_role_of.63.aspx\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"2017 study\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"66f8425de4b023b8021cd0b0\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/md-journal\/fulltext\/2017\/12150\/disparities_in_quality_of_cancer_care__the_role_of.63.aspx\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\">2017 study<\/a> of 763,884 cancer cases showed that \u201csubstantial and consistent disparities in quality of cancer care exist according to type of health insurance.\u201d I was lucky. My hospital and all the affiliated providers except my radiologist took my Medicare. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>I had 21 appointments for tests, exams and consultations in the first two weeks after my diagnosis. Then came three months of weekly chemotherapy with so many side effects and potential complications \u2014 black fingernails, hair loss, nausea, exhaustion, mouth sores, body rashes \u2014 that they filled a three-ring binder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>I was lucky. My sister Madeleine arranged a group of volunteers to drive and assist me to and from therapy, and they attended more than 50 appointments over several months. I never went alone; I was cocooned in a bubble of compassion by my family and friends.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>My sons, friends, sisters, brother and nieces took notes during each visit. I brought a notebook for them because I could remember nothing from any appointments. It was as if the doctors and nurses were all speaking but someone had pressed mute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>I saw other cancer patients struggle with walkers and wheelchairs in hospital hallways and waiting rooms. Many told me they took the bus or train by themselves to get there. They said once they arrived, they took a shuttle bus from one building to the next and tried to navigate the maze-like corridors. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Once, when I was standing in line at the registration desk for my pre-surgery appointment, I noticed an older man in front of me who was alone and holding onto his walker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d the receptionist told him. \u201cYou are an hour late, so we have to reschedule you.\u201d She asked him to please go sit in one of the chairs over by the window and she would get to him as soon as she could. There were four other people ahead of him already waiting for their appointments to be rescheduled. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Grateful for excellent care, I did what I was told. I applied salves, swallowed the prescriptions I had delivered, did the physical therapy exercises to try to amend the neuropathy in my hands and feet. The numbness, instability and inability to walk unassisted was a shocking and humbling reminder of the immobility so many millions cope with every day \u2014 not to mention the lifetime of mobility I had taken for granted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>For close to six months, I could not walk without a cane, or I had to be pushed in a wheelchair or hold on to a friend, sibling or son. I could not button clothes or use a pen to write. But I could type and sit at my desk, so I worked as best I could whenever I could.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>I stayed quarantined, as the doctors told me to do, because for several months my test results showed I was not well enough for a COVID-19 booster and COVID was surging in my area. I masked at the hospital and mostly stayed in my house when I was not seeing a doctor or being treated. I did not go out unless it was for a medical appointment or with a gathering of no more than four people who were always masked too. I had my groceries delivered. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"cli cli-image js-no-inject\">\n<div class=\"img-sized\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/66f84d1f2300001e002a71d6.png?cache=YJkQzQLo4f&amp;ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&amp;format=webp\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-sized__img portrait\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" alt=\"The author ringing the bell for her last day of radiation treatments in March 2024.\" width=\"464\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/66f84d1f2300001e002a71d6.png?cache=YJkQzQLo4f&amp;ops=scalefit_720_noupscale\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"cli-image__source-wrapper\"><figcaption class=\"cli-image__caption caption-cli\">The author ringing the bell for her last day of radiation treatments in March 2024.<\/figcaption><div class=\"cli-image__credit\" aria-label=\"Image Credit: Courtesy of Michele Weldon\">\n<p><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Michele Weldon<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>I was lucky. Because I was not tolerating the chemo well, my medical team moved my surgery from December to October, and I had a radical mastectomy on my left side. Thankfully, my chemotherapy had worked and all 11 of the lymph nodes my surgeon removed were cancer-free.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Post-surgery, taking and applying medications, emptying drains, and tending wounds kept me locked in a cancer-sick mindset. The sores on the inside of my mouth and tongue were healing, but eating was still torturous. Most food tasted like it had been doused in gasoline. Still, I was lucky. Friends brought over simple, healthy foods or had meals delivered. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After surgery, I had two more months of weekly chemotherapy appointments, followed by 30 radiation treatments that burned my insides and made my body feel like it was a thin sheet of crumbled newspaper stoking a campfire. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pain from the surgery and a cavalry of fear-filled thoughts marching across my brain kept me from sleeping well, but I was lucky to have a calm, quiet place to sleep. I felt depleted when I woke up, unable to work my normal long days in one stretch. I grew tired in the early afternoon and would nap before going back to my desk to continue working. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Someone was always checking on me. So many do not have that support or even a peaceful place to lie down.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Despite my devastating diagnosis and my painful treatment, I know I was extraordinarily lucky and, of course, I know not everyone is. I have insurance, a team of doctors who listened, a wide support network of family and friends, and flexible remote work as an independent contractor. I live in a middle-class suburb near a major hospital system. I am white.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>A new study from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/key-data-on-health-and-health-care-by-race-and-ethnicity\/?entry=executive-summary-introduction\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Kaiser Family Foundation\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"66f8425de4b023b8021cd0b0\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/key-data-on-health-and-health-care-by-race-and-ethnicity\/?entry=executive-summary-introduction\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaiser Family Foundation<\/a> found that Black people, Hispanics, American Indians and Alaska Natives are worse off than white people in a majority of measures it studied related to health and health care.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/about-us\/what-we-do\/health-equity\/cancer-disparities-in-the-black-community.html\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"American Cancer Society\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"66f8425de4b023b8021cd0b0\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/about-us\/what-we-do\/health-equity\/cancer-disparities-in-the-black-community.html\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"3\">American Cancer Society<\/a> reports that \u201cone-third of Black American women reported experiencing racial discrimination during a visit with a health care professional.\u201d There is also a higher mortality rate for Black people with cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>It shouldn\u2019t be this way. Everyone should have access to the care I received and the means to afford it. They should have medical teams that listen to them, as mine did, no matter what they look like, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2020\/08\/overcome-the-racial-barriers-to-global-health-parity\/\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"where they live\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"66f8425de4b023b8021cd0b0\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2020\/08\/overcome-the-racial-barriers-to-global-health-parity\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"4\" rel=\"noopener\">where they live<\/a>, or what kind of treatment they need. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was lucky, but with better health care education and medical <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.yale.edu\/news-article\/eliminating-racial-bias-in-health-care-ai-expert-panel-offers-guidelines\/\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"training to eliminate bias\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"66f8425de4b023b8021cd0b0\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/medicine.yale.edu\/news-article\/eliminating-racial-bias-in-health-care-ai-expert-panel-offers-guidelines\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"5\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">training to eliminate bias<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, research that involves <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2024\/02\/racial-bias-equity-future-of-healthcare-clinical-trial\/\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"inclusive clinical trials\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"66f8425de4b023b8021cd0b0\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2024\/02\/racial-bias-equity-future-of-healthcare-clinical-trial\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"6\">inclusive clinical trials<\/a>,<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and providers who are informed, compassionate and offer solutions for best outcomes regardless of patient identity, survival would not need to depend on luck or circumstance. It must be and can be universally fair and equitable.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following my final chemo treatment, my nurses gathered on the chemo floor as I rang the bell, the global ritual for finishing cancer treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was a glorious sound every person undergoing treatment deserves to hear for themselves, so I rang it twice. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><em>Michele Weldon is an award-winning author, journalist, TEDx speaker, and emerita faculty in journalism at Northwestern University and senior leader with The OpEd Project. She is the author of seven nonfiction books, including her latest, \u201cThe Time We Have: Essays on Pandemic Living\u201d and has written chapters in seven anthologies. 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