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Temple said. “I couldn’t believe that I
was getting help. That they didn’t run
me through the ringer. These people
were going to help me. This was on
a Thursday. I was in having my diag-
nostic mammogram on Monday.”
The doctors didn’t like what they
saw on the mammogram. “They
immediately sent me straight over for
a sonogram,” Temple said. “The tech
didn’t like what she saw so she got
the doctor. That was on a Monday
and I was getting a biopsy by the next
Thursday.”
The biopsy came back as
“Abnormal Tissue.”
The next diagnostic she had was a
Thermal Mammogram.
“They could see the blood flowing
in that duct,” Temple said. “Mine was
a spontaneous bleeding.”
Temple’s diagnosis was that
she had a very early stage of breast
cancer.
Temple kept thinking, “Why are
they all in such a hurry? Can’t this all
wait until after the wedding?”
The answer was always, “Ah, no.”
Temple had two surgeries in one
day.
“Solis in Weatherford did the
duct removal and then I went to
Weatherford Regional (now Medical
City Weatherford) then they removed
the abnormal tissue,” she said. “That
is probably not the medical term for
it. Everyone that worked with me
was wonderful, from the people at
Solis to the hospital to everyone in
my doctor’s office and especially my
surgeon, Dr. Amy Gunter.”
She had taken the day off for the
biopsy.
“I thought I could use the rest of
the day to work on the decorations,”
Temple said. “But they said, ‘No. You
need to rest.’”
The best, of course, was the
people with Careity.
“If it wasn’t for them I would
probably be on my deathbed right
now,” Temple said.
The woman she works for called
Temple into her bedroom one day.
She said, “I want you to go into my
safe and get my will.” Temple located
it. She told Temple, “I want you to
find out what I need to do and how I
need to word it to leave my estate to
Careity. Without them, I wouldn’t still
have you in my life.”
Temple was overwhelmed.
The question remaining is, how
did the wedding go?
Temple’s smile is radiant. “I
pulled it off without a hitch,” she
said.
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