{"id":30768,"date":"2015-12-10T06:15:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T13:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=30768"},"modified":"2015-12-10T06:15:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T13:15:08","slug":"cancer-or-not-i-know-whom-i-have-believed-and-i-trust-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2015\/12\/cancer-or-not-i-know-whom-i-have-believed-and-i-trust-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer or Not, I Know Whom I have Believed and I Trust Him."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"article-utility-links\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_30770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30770\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/254\/2015\/12\/gethsemane.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30770\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/254\/2015\/12\/gethsemane.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Source: Flickr Creative Commons by Waiting for the Word https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/waitingfortheword\/\" width=\"420\" height=\"600\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source: Flickr Creative Commons by Waiting for the Word https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/waitingfortheword\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is another article I wrote for the Register. This one is about my surgery for breast cancer. I am having surgery today, beginning at 8 CST. It will run until about noon. I would appreciate your prayers, my friends. Rebecca<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"article-utility-links\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"listing\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<div id=\"single\" class=\"entry full-width-aligned-image\"><cite class=\"byline\">BY REBECCA HAMILTON<\/cite>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"image with-caption\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/images\/sized\/images\/uploads\/kk201512090917-650x340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"340\">\n<p class=\"caption\"><cite style=\"color: #808080;\">(Credit: Andrey Mironov, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body-contents\" class=\"with-embedded-ad\">\n<p>I don\u2019t believe that anyone ever asked me what I would do if I got a bad breast biopsy result. But if they had, I\u2019m pretty sure that feeding a sudden craving for classic rock music would not have been among my answers.<\/p>\n<p>Silly me. I just didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>Monday was a hard day. My husband and I drove to Dallas and I had a biopsy on my breast. Then, we drove home. For those of you who are wondering, driving 200 miles in a Honda Fit after having had your breast rotter rooted is not a fun time.<\/p>\n<p>The surgeon told me at the get-go that he thought \u201cit\u201d was benign. Then, he turned me over to the radiologist for a little look-see. I went into that encounter hoping that they would be able to determine that everything was good with scans. No such luck. After doing a set of mammograms, with a more hyped-up machine than the one here in OKC, the doc turned serious.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s funny, in a non-humorous way, how they keep doing that. They walk in all sunshine and light, then get a good scan and switch to all business. The results came in yesterday, and are a bit too technical for this post. Long story short, I\u2019m still out there, wondering exactly how bad \u201cit\u201d really is; only the questions of it being harmless and of no matter have been settled. It\u2019s not harmless, and it is not of no matter.<\/p>\n<p>Next week I go under the knife. Bizarre as this sounds, I can hardly wait. I want this over with, and I want to know exactly where I stand and what I\u2019m in for.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #003399;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/rhamilton\/i-have-breast-cancer.-whatever-comes-next-i-know-that-i-am-his\/#ixzz3tvGkmgAr\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/rhamilton\/i-have-breast-cancer.-whatever-comes-next-i-know-that-i-am-his\/#ixzz3tvGkmgAr<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another article I wrote for the Register. This one is about my surgery for breast cancer. I am having surgery today, beginning at 8 CST. It will run until about noon. I would appreciate your prayers, my friends. 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