Photo: A few members of my cheering committee
I received the call yesterday from the Doc, himself, the radiologist who did the biopsy. He apologised for the long delay in getting the results - usually it only takes 1-3 days to receive the final pathology report. Mine took 10 days. Good for equanimity practice.
Unfortunately the results indicated DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ). The current western medical treatment for this is either lumpectomy with 1cm clean margins, radiation and also possible hormone therapy. Or if one wants to avoid radiation a mastectomy.
DCIS has a 40% chance of turning into invasive cancer; and 60% don't. Women who died of something else in old age, subsequently had autopsies (best to be dead first) and a number showed DCIS present but lived their whole lives with the cancer staying in situ and not turning invasive.
I now be researching everything on DCIS. But my first step in healing is working with the body and mind as an energy system. I went to a Donna Eden talk last night in SF - she is literally out of this world. A totally brillant healer. There is a weekend course she is leading this weekend at Esalen in Big Sur that Ron and I are going to attend! Her website is http://www.donnaeden.com/ if you want to check her work out.
Northern California is finially getting rain. It doesn't rain for 6 months through the summer and then - bham - it pours down. We have a higher annual rainfall average than Britain!
Send love, prayers, good thoughts, metta, huggs to yourself, me and everyone around you.
