Today..my mother found out she has Breast Cancer.

Today, my mom got the results back from her biopsy. She had a biopsy done last week because she found a lump on her breast a few weeks back. Thinking it was a calcium deposit( like my grandma had before) she just went to the doctor so they could remove it. Her doctor told her that it wasn't a calcium lump. So her doctor scheduled a mammogram and it showed it was a mass there. Alarmed, the doctor ordered a biopsy. My mom...being cool and all just thought it was still not going to be anything harmful. Until...today.

Her doctor called her to give her the news and she told her those words my mother( nor I) never thought she would hear," Theresa, it's Breast Cancer". My mother told me she just listened to what her doctor told her. She( the doctor) told her that it hasn't spreaded yet so its a great chance they can remove all of it during a surgical procedure. However, if for some reason its starts to spread before the surgery and she could not remove all of it...they may have to cut of my mom's breast and she may have to undergo radiation treatment. I don't know if my mom cried when she heard that part but she gathered herself to call me. I was the first person she told today. I literally went nuts! I cried when my mom told me because I never imagined my mother having cancer. I feel like I was shot in my heart. My mom told me not to cry and I told her I couldn't help it because she is my mom. Her surgery is in two weeks so I am going to go home and be with her.

It's really shocking. But she is remaining calm. She didn't even leave work. I am just praying that when she have her surgery that her doctor can remove all of it.