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Getting Involved Professionally
January 19, 2004
Attended a support group in Springdale who had
a massage therapist who is a certified lymphedema therapist
speak. Very interesting, but quite long. Once you
get people talking....it was just too much talk for me.
Still I'm glad I went and picked up some really good
information. As conservative as I believed I was, that was
nothing compared to our speaker.
January 21, 2004
Experienced my first tremble today. Had a
brief pain under my left shoulder blade. This is a pain I
have had many times. But this time it caused me to wonder.
I remember a client who had a pain similar to this which turned
out to be lung cancer. A person could become quite
fearful.
January 22, 2004
Attended Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer
Healthcare Providers Conference today. Very tiring.
Too many people for me. Topics were interesting, but some
of the topics could get old if they are the same every year.
The new thing though is that it looks like it is a great place
to network and find out about up and coming research and
treatments from people who are involved. There was a tea
for survivors, which I was unable to attend due to it being
January and I just had to fulfill other obligations. Also
a professional forum in the evening (doctors) which would have
been great to sit in on, but I was way too tired. As
energetic as I feel it is so obvious that I am still not the
person I was.
While at the conference I was able to talk with
the pathologist who gave me my diagnosis last year and tell her
how much I appreciated her. I remember that I left the
office having a surgeon and oncologist already decided upon,
knew who to contact for more information, and had some idea of
treatment options including the latest (sentinel node biopsy).
Mostly I remember her telling me that this wasn't "a death
sentence." Those were the greatest words to hear.
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