I couldn't get any time away last spring during spring break so my wife took the boys to Alberta to see family by herself. She had got a lump checked on her breast earlier and they asked to do a follow up biopsy. They said at that point it looked benign but they'd send it to pathology just to be sure. She got the call for an urgent in person visit while on the way there. As she wasn't going to be driving back she convinced the doctor to tell her the news while driving. She called me at work and told me the news. The fear of the future, the guilt of not being there, the inability to leave work to process the news, the inability to be there to comfort her and be together killed me. It was awful.
Thankfully, she's brave, assertive, and not vain. She pushed for a full bilateral mastectomy despite it being fairly early because she didn't want to have to worry later in life. After the surgery pathology found the original tumour had grown a lot more than expected and another lump that had started to spread but as she got everything removed, we're in the clear and no other treatment needed.
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