Months ago I had this crazy dream I was trying to support my freind who had been diagnosed with breastcancer. I started to tell her, but decided not to because I also once had a dream about her being broken and then a week later she was sitting sround with a broken foot! So, I absolutely just forgot about it.
I just got off the phone with her and she told me that her mammogram did not come back favorably and she has to go and have a biopsy!! For crying out loud, why does God give me this stuff ??!!
I just vented out at him. Everytime I pray for someone who's deathly ill, they die anyway. I've never prayed for someone sick and then they were healed. Why would he give me a dream like that? I've always believed he gives me them so that I can pray, but what good is it if he doesn't answer? grrrrr.........
But I told her I would pray for her nonetheless ...since it's not about me, but her.
I cried, "Oh, Lady Midnight, I fear that you grow old, the stars eat your body and the wind makes you cold." "If we cry now," she said, "it will just be ignored."
I hope everything turns out ok too. Maybe God was just giving you a warning that your friend would need you during this scary moment. Not just for prayer but also to be there when she needs someone to talk to.
Lioni i had a word to my mother(the head of toowoomba Breast screening) who said that in more than 50% of cases, even when at the Biopsy stage, aren't cancer!! Now not knowing the details or anything i can't say anything for sure, and i don't want to get hopes up or down more than they should be, but i sinicerely wish your friend the best and hope things work out... i've been around breast cancer'ish' story's and horrors most of the life( its something you talk about abit with your mother when she works so closely with it and is affected by it on a day to day bases) and i understand and know the pain that is involved!! Once again my sincere wishes to you and your friend!! YNWA
She didn't have the biopsy done today. She's supposed to go in and have it done at the hospital prolly next week and she'll have the results back as well. They found no lump, but the dr says that doesn't mean anything. He did say that if it is malignant, meaning the biopsy, then it's highly likely that it's a type of cancer which invades the milkducts and doesn't not ever spread to the rest of the body although it does spread to the breast itself which would require breast removal.
I hope it doesn't come back as anything at all, though when they filed the request for the iopsy they put high probability of malignancy. She feels very good about what the dr said though and that matters alot if she feels ancouraged.
Lion .. i hope everything turns out ok for your friend.. thankyou for being strong and supporting her.. keep you faith do not let it sway..every test must be passed.. no matter the outcome..praying for you both...
An update on my freind. She had the biopsy done and intitially thought she was going to have to have a lumpectomy and has now bene told she has to have a mastectomy. The cancer in throughout the whole breast.
She is talking about it like it is so simple, I really admire her. I don't think I'd be handling it very well at all. She'll be in the hospital for four days during which she'll have the surgery and then breast reconstruction. And there is no way on this planet I can tell her that just a couple of months ago I dreamed I was running around with her to doctors because she had breast cancer.
I just hope that I can be a good supporter. I'm not used to being a supporter in somethign like this, especially for someone who is so good at supporting others. I feel rather inadequate. and then when I think like that I then go back to, it's not about me, but about her.
Lion I am so sorry to hear that. I'm sure you'll be a great support team for her, and above that. you'll be a great friend. That's more than some might even try. You are so much stronger than you give yourself credit for, and you'll find that through this as with meny things you've dealt with. You'll come out strnger, and find out even more about yourself in the end. I'll say a prayer for your friend also.
Thanks you guys. Tonight she told the ones at service who are more closely connected and personally I am just in a daze when I hear her say " I have cancer." It just sounds so foreign. I can't explain it.
Na, to my knowledge threads stay unless they're manually put there. This one was supposed to remain considering my freind hasn't even had the operation yet. At any rate, she goes in Oct. 2nd.
She's nervous, but she 's holding together very well. They won't know if it's invasive until the surgery. They'll doa pathology report and then they'll be able to tell if it's spread to the lymph nodes. If so, they'll remove those as well.
Thank you everyone for responding and for your encouragement. I wanted to post an update. She had her surgery Last Tuesday. I went to see her that Wednesday. She was suprisingly alert and the surgery went well. The cancer had not spread to the lymph nodes and they were wating on the pathology report.
I talked with her tonight and the pathology reports have come in earlier than anticipated and came out 100% clean. The cancer was noninvasive and did not spread anywhere. She will not need chemo. Just a couple of other things dealing with the reconstrutction after the mastectomy. The reconstruction started right after the initial surgery, but there are a couple of other details that need to be done. UNless she decides that she's satisfied after everything this far.
Thank you everyone for responding and for your encouragement. I wanted to post an update. She had her surgery Last Tuesday. I went to see her that Wednesday. She was suprisingly alert and the surgery went well. The cancer had not spread to the lymph nodes and they were wating on the pathology report.
I talked with her tonight and the pathology reports have come in earlier than anticipated and came out 100% clean. The cancer was noninvasive and did not spread anywhere. She will not need chemo. Just a couple of other things dealing with the reconstrutction after the mastectomy. The reconstruction started right after the initial surgery, but there are a couple of other details that need to be done. UNless she decides that she's satisfied after everything this far.
that is wonderful news Lion!!!!!!! i am so glad to hear that your friend is doing well and that the cancer was noninvasive
YNWA
I'm sure you'll be a great supporter to her! 
i am so glad to hear that your friend is doing well and that the cancer was noninvasive
