MindBodySoul

Watching “Truth about Cancer” wasn’t the best idea the night before your chemo I guess! First episode was all about chemotherapy, how toxic it is, how it causes recurrence of cancer!! And we were like - what the heck? Are we doing the right thing? And who actually knows what’s right or wrong? I made my research for the last month, get opinions from 6 different oncologists and made my decision. I am not going to watch this and I’ll move forward with my decision. TH its is. No

Okay, so I decided on my surgeon for my mastectomy, my plastic surgeon for my reconstructive surgery and scheduled it. November 9th will be the nipple delay surgery... This is something my surgeon offered and made sense to me. During this procedure, they will remove a small amount of tissue from beneath the nipple to ensure that it isn't malignant so we will know if they can do nipple sparing mastectomy, meaning they can use my own nipples. They will also remove 2 lymph nodes

What? Why? How? Can I answer any of these questions? I guess not... I have breast cancer! Don't know why I got it, how I got it, when I got it... Going back a few days, this whole thing started with my ob/gyn saying "You are 40 now, it's time for your annual mammogram!". I am pretty good at listening my doctors, keeping things organized, scheduling, so I booked my mammogram immedately for September 1st. After all what can go wrong? I am very healthy... I work as a health coac