Good News - Don't have to change my travel plans

[HorizonSeeker]

It has been a very tumultuous 6 weeks here in little Folkston, GA. At least at site 12 it has. This spring I had bronchitis and couldn't shake it. Also had trouble finding a local doctor that would take my insurance from TN. Finally gave up and went to the VA in Lake City (yes, girls I was in the Navy 8 years and left on a medical discharge) which turned out to be a great place with some wonderful folks. I was given lots of ass-kicking meds and got over the bronchitis very quickly but since it was the 3rd time I had had it in a year tests were in order. My heart and lungs were thoroughly tested and COPD and pertusis (whooping cough is back on the rise and I could have been exposed as a schoolteacher) were ruled out. Turns out I have developed asthma but it is easily controled with meds. Whew!! That COPD thing had me scared. Along the way I was sent to the women's clinic for pap smear and mammogram. Seems I have neglected these things for a few years. OK, I confess that after dh died I have let myself go a bit.

Long story short, I have spent the last 6 weeks in and out of Jacksonville Memorial being poked and prodded. Who knew there were so many torture devices for a woman's breast? They were doing all they could to avoid actual surgery to remove 2 mysterious masses from my right breast. And the whole time I was trying to keep cool and figure out how my rv life was going to change if what they found meant surgery, chemo, radiation, and who knows what. Not easy for me to keep this calm for this long. But yesterday I got the final biopsy report: BENIGN. No more tests/instruments of tittie torture. And more importantly, keep going forward with my rv life!!!

I have to say that the owners here at Okefenokee Pastimes have been really supportive through the whole thing. They let me make up some of the hours I missed and in most cases didnt care. They just sincerely wanted me to be alright. I leave here at the end of April to return to TN and see family for a few weeks. Then I start to work for GA state parks as a camphost in Newnan, GA the first of June. Life is good and the rv life is great. And I am incredibly blessed. Amen.

[Sandersmr]

Oh thank you, Lord!

I'm so glad you got good news this week. I've had two friends get nothing but bad news. Go enjoy your summer - Newnan, hmmm. Too bad I'm not planning on hauling the trailer to GA this summer. That would be a good park to go.

[Carolinagal]

Great news, so happy for you. Always wonderful to get a good report from the dr.s.

Now, enjoy your travels and your summer. Get on with your life !!!

CArol

[retiredhappy]

So happy all the news was good. Now enjoy the summer.

[Dawn309]

So glad to hear your good news!! Enjoy your summer.

[Bethers]

I know those feelings of waiting to see results, etc. How wonderful that you had such great ones! So happy for you.

[AlmostThere]

That was allot of burdens all at once, but glad you have now taken care of yourself and all is well!
And don't forget those yearly mammos now.

[HorizonSeeker]

Actually I will have to do mammo every 6 months now but with getting my healthcare at the VA I can get into a clinic just about anywhere I am. So great. In fact, my doctor at the clinic in St. Mary's said he and his wife lived in an RV while he finished his internship. And the day I went to the women's clinic at the Lake City VA the nurse said I was the second woman vet they had seen this summer and that the other woman was workcamping at a FL state park. Suddenly all those watches I stood are paying off.

[sunshinecruiserTN]

You were in a good place at the right time. Newman sounds like a good place to spend the summer. Congrats.

[Sandersmr]

I don't do a mammo every 6 months, but I have done clinical breast examination every 6 months since my mother was diagnosed in 2006. And because my family and personal history have ramped up my chances, they have recommended that I go the MRI route. So I will get a mammo at one CBE and the MRI at the other.



<<<< will probably die under the bus!

[Travelinana]

Very good news...isn't it great to get that 2nd chance..like many have said nothing is holding you back..just stay in touch.

[avalen]

great news!

[Colliemom]

Boy, that's great news. Enjoy your summer. Sounds like it's going to be a fun one.

[BirdbyBird]

Sounds as if you have spent the past weeks staring down fears and imagination. Glad that chapter has ended and you are ready to head off on new adventures of the good kind once again

[mitch5252]

That is such good news!
Scary stuff to go through.