I had never been the type of girl to check herself on her own. I figured that I got checked yearly by my doctor so I was fine till the next time around.
Well it was 5 months after my yearly checkup, October 18, 2013 a lump was found by accident. I just turned 27 ten days before.
I had told my mom about it and she was worried. She told me breast cancer runs in our family. So it worried me enough to schedule a appt for a untra sound. My insurance required a referral so we went to see my family doctor and after she examined me she said I was TO YOUNG to have cancer, that the lump was just a cyst.
She knew of my family history and still insisted that it was nothing to worry about. We got the referral anyways because we insisted on getting it checked out.
Good thing because after getting a ultra sound, mammogram and a biopsy done in the same day, I was called that very next day and told that the lump was cancerous.
I was a wreck. I had cancer inside of me and I didn't know if I was going to die because of it. I knew nothing about breast cancer. But what I found out was that I caught the lump early and I wasn't going to die .
I was stage 1 triple negative, brca1 and 2 negative and had no cancerous lympnodes. I was given 2 options, I can get a lumpectomy and go through 5 months of chemo following radiation. Or get a mastectomy and just go through chemo. It was my decision as hard as it was but I choose to get a double mastectomy with reconstruction. I did not want to have any chance of something like this happening again.
Now on May 2nd 2014 I am a survivor! Also, I get to say that my boyfriend of 4 years proposed to me on channel 6 news! Making this the best day ever!
This is the link to my proposal.
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/html5/video?id=9525113&pid=null§ion=null
Hatfield, PA
