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Subject: A DIFFERENT KIND OF MOUNTAIN


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STACY
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Date Posted: 19:39:32 03/23/04 Tue
 I wrote this poem during my first encounter of breast cancer in 1999. Hence the name of this website.

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A DIFFERENT KIND OF MOUNTAIN

A lump, a sonogram, and a mammogram.
Then an inconclusive biopsy.
My world is turning upside down.
A high mountain and a dark sea.

So many unforeseen challenges.
Suddenly mystic roads untraveled.
Family and friends lives in a balance.
Struggling not to become unraveled.

Advise of untrusted results.
Go in to have this thing removed.
Possible results could incur.
Few procedures behooved.

The tumor is malignant.
Perform a lumpectomy.
Lymph nodes dissected.
Will there be a mastectomy?

Promptly see an Oncologist.
Adriamyacin, Cytoxin, and Taxol.
Eight long rounds of treatment.
Eight injections of toxins.

Blood vessels are small and deep.
Best to get a port-a-cath.
Another surgical procedure.
This is the wisest path.

The treatments cause side effects.
Although blood counts unaffected.
Many physical changes.
Off to radiation I am directed.

High hopes of finality crushed.
Expected radiation treatments delayed.
Doctor didn’t like pathology reports.
My nerves are getting frayed.

A second kind of cancer.
Overlooked by the others.
More surgery in site.
What’s next to be discovered?

Another mammogram and more.
CT and bone scan to see.
Has this cancer traveled?
And formed another malignancy?

A full body scan of bones.
A nuclear dye injected.
Collapsed vein from the needle.
Now it has become infected.

All the anxiety from waiting.
All worries and doubts relieved.
No metastatic malignancy.
My body has been reprieved.

An antibiotic takes care of me.
Superficial thrombophlebitis no more.
Only remains of a sore, hard, warm vein.
The least of my problems, I’m sure.

A time to climb a different kind of mountain.
And face a left breast mastectomy.
My life is totally changing.
Tougher than a lumpectomy.

A different kind of mountain.
I can only imagine and strive.
To endure every crevice and slope.
Fighting to stay alive.

If it means to stay alive.
Lose my left breast I must.
God holds my dearest destiny.
In God I truly love and trust.

Stacy R. Preston
(2-5-00)

Last edited by author: Tue March 23, 2004 19:44:01   Edited 3 times.

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