Adam and Penny Lain Hensley

Moving is always difficult. This move began almost worse than the move to Indiana...ok way worse!! We are still living in a house we don't own and we have to move during Christmas. Things don't seem to be going well from that end. Look again! I am so fortunate to be a Delta Gamma. I immediately got in contact with the DGs out here. I began by attending a networking event, joining the board, and now making great friends! I have an interview because of a DG. DGs have invited me to lunch and Mary Kay facial nights to get to know me better and let me meet people in the area. WOW! I feel so blessed at this moment to have joined the greatest fraternity ever. I feel like that decision I made years and years ago was right. I feel like these women and I were destined to meet. It is true that you are a sister for life. If you have not contacted your alumnae chapter, do so...pay your dues...meet some amazing sisters...DO GOOD!!! ITB

I have faced some health problems the past week or so. Months ago I found another lump in my breast, the doctor in Evansville said, "It feels the same and there is no reason to do a biopsy." This of course did not please me at all. My number one thing was to get a second opinion. Luckily we did. Dr. Maher of Sutter Medical Group sent me for an ultrasound and biopsy. He said he was pretty sure it was another fibroadenoma but did want to take any risk with my health. We got in the next morning at 7:30 for what we thought was both an ultrasound and a biopsy. The center we went to only performed ultrasounds to our surprise. While I was in the back, Adam was out in the front flirting it up with the nurses to get me in that day for a biopsy at another location. The best he could do was 3 in the afternoon. During that time I was in a dark, cold room half-dressed for my ultrasound. I have been through these many times and have come to know what to look for on the screen. The nurses began whispering and when I asked how large the mass was, they stumbled on their words and quickly turned the screen...at this point I was not feeling so great. After being left alone in this room for what seemed like hours, the radiologist came in to tell me the mass was not smooth rather bumpy...now I'm terrified. As Adam and I get back to the truck so I can tell him the terrifying news, the phone rings from the imaging center to move the biopsy to 10:15 after they received my file. Now we are really terrified as we make those phone calls to our moms. Not 30 minutes later, they called again to tell me to come on in immediately. I took another Xanax at this point and off we went. The Radiological Associates of Sacramento in Roseville was wonderful. The nurses took a ton of extra time to help me with my phobia of needles and calm Adam's fears of me going through the procedure without him by my side. This was the easiest biopsy this far. I had little bleeding, almost no bruising, and very little pain. Thanks to Kim Arvin in Evansville, Indiana for helping me cope with my phobia of needles!! After a weekend of worry and barely being able to sleep, I got a phone call from Dr. Maher...it's NOT cancer!!!!! This year we are thankful for another year free of cancer.