Katherine Stoneman
Kansas City Cancer Examiner
February 27, 2010
Millie excitedly purchased a cedar planter, she popped a little fern into it and she stepped off the curb in rural storefront in an ungraceful manner ended up slamming her chest bone first onto the pavement and planter. The aches and pains in the breast area she blamed on her "graceful" landing on the planter that day the rural doctor said it was a bruised sternum.
The breast cancer specialist in Hays, Kansas who had done regular mammograms for Millie for 15 years who thought she had yet another benign breast tumor, suspicion this time—cancer. A one centimeter cyst was found, a biopsy sent to Wichita and the results found stage one rapid type growing cancer. Millie felt it was blessing in disguise falling on the planter because it nagged at her to get it checked.
She said they gave her tattoo spots on her chest to center the radiation at the hospital cancer center, however before radiation she had a lymphdectomy removal of the cyst and a port for the drug Herceptin (Genentech, 2010) which was injected once a week for a year. The radiation and port filling she ended up going 37 times. Wonderful families and friends Millie said gave her positive faith attitude surviving through the 160 miles roundtrip each time to a great oncologist Dr. Muzzafar Iqbal and breast specialist Dr. A Christine Kelly in Hays Drieling-Schmidt Cancer Institute for yearlong. Millie will take Remedex (Expomed Medical Company, n. d.) for 5 years. November 19, 2009 her mammogram showed no signs of cancer. Millie the “grace-filled” mom and survivor of breast cancer. Please take a "Millie Moment" and make a Mammogram appointment!
Works Cited
Expomed Medical Company. (n.d.). Expomed Medical Company. Retrieved February 2010 http://remedex.com.
