“So, when my breast radiologist Susan Drossman stated, ‘Are you able to flip off your cellphone?’ I used to be like, ‘Uh-oh, what does that imply?’ And she or he stated, ‘I believe there may be one thing we actually must biopsy and I need to do it right now.’ So, I believed, ‘Oh my god, it’s essential to be kidding me.'”
Couric stated her physician known as the following day and advised her that her biopsy outcomes got here again as most cancers. “I used to be fairly shocked,” she added. “And I believe these phrases, ‘it is cancerous’ or ‘you’ve got most cancers,’ do cease you in your tracks. However she advised me it was treatable, we would have liked to have a plan. So, I went from feeling shocked to not that shocked to relieved.”
The New York Occasions best-selling writer—who shares daughters Ellie, 31, and Caroline (Carrie), 26, with late ex-husband Jay Monahan—stated she waited just a few days to name and inform her daughters so she may course of the information.
