{"id":32628,"date":"2021-10-22T09:55:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T14:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acd-inc.com\/?p=32628"},"modified":"2021-10-23T04:33:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T09:33:23","slug":"an-acdi-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acd-inc.com\/fr\/blog\/an-acdi-survivor\/","title":{"rendered":"An ACDI Survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On average, every 2 minutes, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States. That figure seems pretty daunting, and the risk factors are difficult to avoid if you are a woman and plan to live a long life because those are the risk factors! Be a woman and live to an older age. So, if it seems inevitable, how does one survive?<\/p>\n\n

Early detection is key when fighting the physical battle, but on the battlefield of the mind, self-advocacy and a warrior spirit can carry you when the other is found wanting. ACDI\u2019s Debbie Lamont knows a bit about both.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

Debbie\u2019s story starts as most breast cancer stories probably do. With a lump. A lump the size of a green pea. A harmless foe in any other arena but a formidable opponent when raging a war inside the human body. At the age of 43, during a routine self-check, she discovered a lump. She contacted an imaging center but needed a referral from her primary care physician before scheduling a mammogram. She was examined about a month later, and the physician stated, \u2018It\u2019s probably nothing,\u2019 Debbie decided that didn\u2019t feel right, so she pushed for an ultrasound and mammogram.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

The clinic that conducted the mammogram sent a letter stating that the results were \u2018suspicious,\u2019 but, again, probably nothing and to follow up in six months. However, when the clinic called to schedule the follow-up appointment, Debbie had just completed her second round of chemo.<\/p>\n\n

Three months after the first mammogram, that pea-sized lump was large enough to be seen by the naked eye. The biopsy results determined an aggressive malignancy that spread throughout her lymphatic system, resulting in the need for a lumpectomy, lymph node removal, six months of chemo, and four months of radiation. Also, due to the hostile nature of cancer, the medical team proactively recommended a total hysterectomy.<\/p>\n\n

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When I first found out I had cancer, it was a punch in the gut.\u00a0 Initially, I was depressed and felt sorry for myself, and assumed I was going to die. I spent a lot of time praying that God would take care of my family if I wasn’t around.\u00a0 What He gave me was the strength to fight and that’s what I did<\/em>.<\/p>\n Debbie <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n

Eight years later<\/strong>, Debbie is living proof that prayer and a positive attitude are part of the formula for survival. She is a wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, aunt, friend, co-worker, and an eight-year breast cancer survivor. Debbie is proud to be where she is today and said, \u201cGod wasn’t finished with me.\u00a0 I’m here by the grace of God and I am so blessed to be a survivor and kind of a badass<\/em>.\u201d Badass indeed.<\/p>\n\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 On average, every 2 minutes, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States. That figure seems pretty daunting, and the risk factors are difficult to avoid if you are a woman and plan to live a long life because those are the risk factors! Be a woman and live to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":32586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acd-inc.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acd-inc.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acd-inc.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acd-inc.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acd-inc.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32628"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/acd-inc.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32658,"href":"https:\/\/acd-inc.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32628\/revisions\/32658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acd-inc.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acd-inc.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acd-inc.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acd-inc.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}