I was one of those ladies that was never into the self-breast exam because there was no history in my family of breast cancer. Now I lost both my parents to cancer but not breast cancer. I was outside playing with my babies (my dogs) when I got to itching really bad on both my breast. Well, I didn't think anymore of it until the next morning when something told me to check my left breast and there it was PLAIN as day. Thankfully I work at a hospital and was able to get my mammogram that day. Then came biospy day!!! OUCH!!! It wouldn't deaden. She had to do it anyway. I had a perfect circle of bruises from her trying to deaden it. Then I had a "lumpectomy". Then started chemo and had a severe reaction to it and had to quit taking it. Then got burnt to a crisp having radiation. I kidded the tech that did my radiation that I knew they were secretly planning a luau and I was the pig!!!! Then came tomoxifen (which I couldn't take either) then lupron shots, now femara. All and all I am doing pretty good. Because my breast cancer was lobular, I will always worry about it coming back and not finding it. My life will be forever changed. Karen Locklear

Karen Locklear
Buchanan, GA