2018 Paint paper pink

2018 Paint the Paper Pink Lincoln Daily News October 2018 Page 45 Not all cancer patients wear turbans CONTINUE ... on this occasion, the outcome was a little different. Wendy explained that she met with the Clinical Radiologist who put her on a table and did a series of pictures of her right breast. At one point in time the radiologist left the room. Wendy said she moved a bit and was able to see the screen and the last picture from the sonogram. There it was. A big black blob. Breast cancer – she had cancer. Her mind ran through what that meant and she began then digesting the fact that she was now a statistic that she never really expected to be. She had no family history of breast cancer, she didn’t smoke, she tried to live a healthy lifestyle and of course, she had her annual tests to make certain she was okay, there it was – cancer. When Wendy was able to speak with the professional though she found out that the big black blob was a cyst. But the shocking part was that the Radiologist, Lisa Wichterman, had noted a small mass hidden behind the cyst. For Wichterman, this was a big deal, a hard to see tumor that had been successfully identified in spite of the cyst. A biopsy was done and the diagnosis I n 2014, Wendy Bell got a shock when she went for her annual mammogram. Always a believer in being proactive in her health care, Bell went for mammograms annually. Each year, she went through the “squish” and each year her tests came back good, though sometimes questionable. She said she had grown accustomed to the call after the mammogram for additional testing because her mammogram would be questionable, and she chuckled, that her girls were not the same size. One breast was larger than the other, and the medical professionals were always concerned about that. On this particular occasion, she was called in for that additional testing. A sonogram that would give greater detail of what was going on inside her body. She didn’t give it a whole lot of thought, she just went. But Wendy Bell, a poster child for mammograms and early detection By Nila Smith