A Kaiser Permanente Care Team Helps Patsy Lindsay Beat Breast Cancer for Good

My initial diagnosis of breast cancer was back in 2006 from a mammogram. I was diagnosed with recurrence of breast cancer in January of 2012 and I'd been having some pain in the month or two before that and then it felt a lump. Physicians had a treatment plan for me with the recurrence of the cancer to insure that they could treat it adequately and that the cancer would be taken care of and then I'd be healed. The plan for that was to do surgery and have it followed by radiation. The surgery went extremely well, the radiation I was frightened about and the doctors again there helped me with my fear to say you can do this. I was frightened that I would lose my energy level, I was frightened that it would be painful. I was frightened that it would be too scary to do it, I was frightened also that my skin was going to really break down and actually what happened is none of those things happened, I actually sailed through the entire thing with the support of those folks and also some things that I did in my own lifestyle. And I had talked to many people, and I had looked at a lot of the research and found out that the more you can exercise during radiation, the better you do, and also the better you can do at eating a very healthy diet, the better you're going to do. So I kept my pedometer and I would take Sam to the dog park every day. This is my hero right here, he's turning his back to you. And pushed to do six thousand or more steps a day. And the technicians would cheer me on those days when I just say I don't have the energy to do it and they'd say yes you can. And I think just about every day I made that six thousand steps. I can't say enough about the care that I've been given from Kaiser. The doctors, the staff, the team approach, the caring, the kindness. Basically I'm standing here today smiling and doing well because of that. All of them. And they've just on every level helped me get through an extremely tough time.