I have breast cancer

[LiberalLoner]

32. I'm so sorry. Sending hugs. I went through the same thing last year, cancer in two spots, both of them

Under 1 cm, in the same breast.

I concentrated on one step at a time.

Getting biopsies done. Check.

Breast MRI done. Check.

Meeting with surgical oncology team. Check.

Meeting with plastic surgery doc. Check.

Finding out the surgery date and making sure my husband could take time off to help me recover from surgery. He took a week off and that was more than enough. In fact the surgery wasn’t anywhere near as rough as my hysterectomy was.

Getting through the recovery. Getting the drains taken out.

Appointment with medical oncologist who told me chemo was not useful in my case and if I got radiation treatments and took Letrozole, my cancer only had a three percent chance of coming back within the next decade.

Appointment with radiologist.

Four weeks of radiation therapy. For me, no big deal. No pain, no sunburn, just a funky tan that faded. Got kind of tired towards the end of the radiation treatments and fuzzy brained.

Started on Letrozole. No real side effects…joints a little more creaky is all.

Mammogram one year out. No evidence of disease, we seem to have beat this cancer.

Now it feels like I never even had cancer, it was just a bump in the road.

I hope your path will be as easy as mine was and I hope you have helpers, and I hope you come out of it with no evidence of disease at the end.

Sending lots of hugs. The Mayo message boards are pretty helpful, too.

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