I say this with the full benefit of my own experience with Breast Cancer, all you CAN do for now is to be there for her to lean on and love her unconditionally. Hug her lots cause that's all we really need at the moment. There isn't much you can do to stop what she's about to go through, so just let her know you are there and that you will get through this
together.
My mother died from this disease as she didn't have Mammograms done until it was too late. She had a full radical Mastectomy, but it spread to the lung and brain. In the end, she couldn't bare us watching her go, so she shot herself instead. Now I grieve for her suicide, and the fact she would have died from Cancer.
As for myself, I am again having to go through yet ANOTHER biopsy on the same breast they took half off of in 2003. It was a malignant tumor. I endured six and a half
weeks of radiation to boot. Tamoxifen jr. chemo. drug for three and half years, and now again, a new spot in a different section up by my armpit???? What in blue blazes does God want from me, I wonder. I wish he would stop testing my strength. Go pick on someone else for a change!!! Maybe he's chosen me so MY children won't have to? If that's the case, so be it!!!
I see a surgeon next Monday. Please say a prayer for me that it all comes out in a good manner. I can't go through this again and again...................I feel mutilated enough already.