Monday’s Mantra
I went in
there ready to get it done. I was looking forward to seeing Renee, the manager
of the imaging department, and I just knew she was going to be as ready as I
was to accomplish what the tech was unable to the week prior.
Welcome to
Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power and Monday’s Mantra with Trench Classes United.
Have you ever noticed that when we don’t know how something’s going to go, or
how something’s going to feel, or why something is happening the way that it
is, that anxiety rises up in you, especially if it’s about something serious?
I’m not
going to lie and say I wasn’t anxious at all, but there was definitely a
difference this time in that I knew a more about what to expect…at least I
thought I did until they put me in a different room with a different
mammography machine. “I don’t have to go on the table?”
“No, there’s
an angle I forgot to try last week that Renee’s going to try.”
Just then Renee walked in and we hugged like we were old friends. Immediately I was at ease. There is something to be said about experience, and hers was definitely apparent when after getting me and my itty-bitty all situated…albeit painfully, she got the image she needed on the second try. “I got it! Stay right there while I go show the doctor.”
Just then Renee walked in and we hugged like we were old friends. Immediately I was at ease. There is something to be said about experience, and hers was definitely apparent when after getting me and my itty-bitty all situated…albeit painfully, she got the image she needed on the second try. “I got it! Stay right there while I go show the doctor.”
“Uh, it’s
not like I can go anywhere,” and we both laughed.
The tech
from the week before came over to me and placed her phone close by, proud of
herself for remembering what genre of music I liked…Christian worship.
Renee came
back with the doctor: “Okay, we’re going to get started.”
Again I was
embraced and held by a song and suddenly the unknown didn’t seem so bad. The
name of the song is “Oh, my soul” but these words sang at the beginning really
calmed me: “There’s a place where fear has to face the God you know.”
I was once
again blown away by the appropriateness of not just the powerful words of the
song, but the timing it. I was definitely in that place, my itty-bitty squished
and compressed, waiting for the needle that would numb just the top layer, and
totally unprepared for the pain that came with the insertion as it went deeper,
twisting and pulling, shooting a pain that brought immediate tears to my eyes.
This moment
catapulted me into His comforting grace as I stared into the sweet face of
Renee and she talked me thru it. Within moments the actual biopsy part of this
procedure was finished. It was after that, while Renee applied compression to
the wound that we sat and had the sweetest fellowship, exchanging mini
testimonies and professing our love for God and His infinite grace displayed
thru important people in our lives. I mean it was the sweetest relief after
such a painful procedure that it truly made me move on from the pain faster
than I ever have from any pain.
In recovery,
Renee explained she would walk the sample over herself to the hospital and that
I should hear something in 3-5 days. We hugged and I couldn’t help but smile as
I left the imaging center that day because though my itty-bitty was bittier and
minus some tissue for sure, my heart was full of gratitude.
Grateful,
Kim-Evinda
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