Letting It Sink In

Wednesday, November 21 - My daughters and I went to my Mom's house to spend the day with her.  Mom finally showed me the lump.  I will never forget how it looked. Strange to say the least.  There was no red, sore looking, or oozing mass, nothing that appeared to be life threatening at least at the moment.  Rather a swelled place on the top of her breast.  Some places surrounding the swelling were pulled tight.  The skin over the swelled area looked dimpled and I could see exactly what the doctor meant by an "orange peel appearance".  The skin was completely normal looking; however, not even pink.  Being a teacher, I had spent hours the hours prior researching inflammatory breast cancer and understood little but believed this was somehow a good sign.