10/22/05- My parents are home from Greece, I go out there in the morning to tell my mom.  She is great, I tell her about the appointments I have on Monday, and of course she will go with me.  I have to work at the restaurant that night.  I realize that I won’t be able to work the next weekend, since I will be having surgery on Thursday.  I tell Patty and she said she would find coverage for me.  I don’t tell anyone else.

10/23/05- Travis and I are going to the movies.  We are in the car when he asks me what I am doing the next weekend.  I guess this is it and I have to tell him.  I tell him I am having surgery on Thursday.  I tell him, why and that it is cancer.  He is great, the rockstar Becky said he was.  I tell him that we haven’t been dating that long, this situation sucks and he can leave, I will understand.  He stays.  I often wonder who sent this man into my life.  I am so lucky.

10/24/05- I tell Julie at school that I have cancer.  It’s getting easier to say it.  I tell them in the office that I am having surgery and I need coverage in my classroom.  That afternoon I have my first mammogram.  I think half the town of Whiting was in the waiting room while I was waiting.  Later Mom and I meet with Dr. Fuller.  The mammogram showed nothing else.  The chest x-ray didn’t either.  The first good news yet!

10/25/05- It’s spaghetti night at my parent’s house.  It’s crowded with family and friends.  I don’t tell anyone.  It’s easier if I don’t talk about it.  I do call two friends who live out of state.  I can talk about it on the phone easier than face to face.