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Posted 2017-11-17T05:12:00Z

Part I: What?

A few weeks ago I felt something different in my breast. It was hard to describe it as a lump because I could not feel all around it. It just seemed to have an edge that I had not felt before. I was doubting myself until I told my husband a few days later. He felt it immediately. So, I found a doctor’s office with a PA that could see me that day. The PA felt it too and immediately filled out a referral for a mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy, if warranted.  Long story short, after mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy, I received pathology results showing a decent amount of DCIS (aka pre-cancer or Stage 1, not yet invasive) and a small amount of invasive cancer. But at that point my lymph nodes looked okay.  Met with a breast surgeon and a plastic surgeon on the same day, November 1. A mastectomy of the right breast was clearly warranted, but given my family history and the years I have spent thinking of what I would do if this time ever came, I made it clear that I wanted a double mastectomy.  On November 3 the breast surgeon’s office called and asked if I could be ready in time for surgery on November 7. [...]

Posted 2017-11-17T04:52:00Z

Why?

I would prefer to blog about the way my granny and my mom taught me to eat grits and bacon or how to make creamed corn.  But unfortunately for you and I, they have been hanging out in heaven for many years playing cards with Mother Teresa and Princess Di. (My mom passed away the same week as them. I think it was my brother who observed that heaven gained more than one saint that week in September 1997.)[...]