This was not necessarily a view I wanted to experience again, but here we are. This week has been a little worrisome for us as I found a lump in my right armpit while showering on Sunday. After calling my doctors they decided it would be best for me to come in. I went in for an exam yesterday followed by a chest CT yesterday afternoon. They called today to tell me the news. The scan was indeterminate. The good news is that the thing that brought me in and started it all, the lump in the armpit, was nothing.  However they did find a 3 mm nodule in my right lung. This is a new nodule since my 2018 but it is very common for people to have nodules in their lungs. So for now we will just watch it with repeated chest CT scans for the next two years. They also found soft tissue nodularity on my lower right breast which could represent continued evolution of post surgical change (aka evolutionary healing or the “treatment effect”) but they could not exclude the potential of a local recurrence. My doctor said radiologist list things as most likely first, so she said that’s a good thing. It’s probably just my body still healing. She also said radiologists would say (if they thought it was recurrence) it was favorable of recurrence. So another good thing.  They’ve scheduled me for an MRI and ultrasound next week to get a different look at it to use with this scan to determine what is going on.

All this to say that we are living with a little uncertainty these days. Life with cancer means a certain amount of the unknown basically forever. It’s just this thing lurking at the edges of everything.

I’m confident that my doctors know what they’re doing. And I’m confident that my Heavenly Father knows what he’s doing too. There’s probably a reason why the lump in my armpit was nothing, maybe it’s purpose was solely to get me to the doctors. I will tackle whatever comes my way, with the love and support that constantly surrounds me ❤️💕