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1/17/25: Mom...It starts somewhere.

In December I scheduled a mammogram. Due to the fact I had felt a lump, I had to have a diagnostic mammogram with ultrasound. I arrived for my appointment at 9:00am and left just before 2:00pm. This was my first mammogram, so I had no idea what to expect. The tech did the first round of images. She came back and indicated the doctor wanted to get more images of the left breast. "The left? Did you mean the right?" I thought there was a mistake because it had been the right side I felt the lump in. "No, the left." I was still clueless. Looking back, the ultrasound that followed did seem to take a long time. I swear that tech got every millimeter of both breasts. She kept apologizing. I was still clueless. The nurse navigator came to get me. The doctor wanted to meet with me to discuss the results. At this time, they had concerns and wanted to move forward immediately with biopsying some areas where there were masses present. Masses. Multiple. Both breasts. Ly...

Fall/Winter 2024: I think I feel something.

While I can’t recall the exact timeframe that I felt an abnormality in my right breast, I do recall asking my husband to touch my boob. “Come here. Can you touch my boob? Does it feel different?” While my husband obviously didn’t need an invite to grope my boobs, he wasn’t thrilled to have to feel for something in particular. See, one of his biggest fears is that he has cancer…and is dying. Or someone has cancer..and is dying. I swear any ailment he has = cancer. Ok, so I may be exaggerating a tad, but I’m not that far off. I recall him feeling the area that I had concerns with and just kind of saying, “I don’t know. I mean maybe? What am I supposed to feel?” I believe this timeframe was around late fall, early winter. I know I continued to feel something on the outside of that right breast and eventually over Thanksgiving break, I asked my sister-in-law, a nurse practitioner to feel it as well. Her palpation of that area was really tender to which I was thinking, “Y...

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