As if this year hasn’t been stressful enough with losing shawn and others. Twelve days ago I got a phone call saying my routine mammogram had a spot that looked suspicous. I had an ultrasound and a biospy. They found out I have breast cancer called invasive ductal carcinoma stage 1a. It’s in the milk ducts and it’s less than 1 centimeter in size. I had an MRI last week that showed it hadn’t spread.
In the past 8 days I’ve learned a lot about Breast Cancer. Ohio Health has given me tons of information and has been extremely helpful. I Guess there are lots of things we don’t think about in life until we have to deal with them.
Today we scheduled surgery for July 18th and I had some genetic testing done to see of I have the BRCA gene mutation. Its highly unlikely that I do but since I’m “young” they want to test for it.
The Cancer is small and hasn’t spread. They found it early. The moral of the story is if you are 40 years old or older you should go get your mammogram. I had no symptoms and it couldn’t be felt so the only way of knowing was from my routine mammogram.
I’m not stressed about this. I’m actually just really pissed that Shawn isn’t here with me while I deal with this. But it’s time to put on my big girl pants and deal with it. I’ve feel like I’ve lived through worse this year so this is just another bump in the road of 2019. I can’t wait for 2020. Just saying! 😉
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