Well sh*t...
Life is full of surprises, and some of them aren't great. In November 2023, I was minding my own business, planning on dragging my feet about getting my mammogram, which is currently scheduled for every 2 years, and was slightly overdue. After my mammo, I get a notification from the clinic that they found something. So I went back in, looked at the image, and wow, did they ever find something. I could not feel this new thing, nor could the surgeon tasked with taking it out. It was cancer if you haven't guessed. Fast forward a few weeks, and I'm recovering from my basic lumpectomy (and one sentinel lymph node-ectomy), and I get the pathology report. Switch gears! More cancer. My oncologist recommends getting a mastectomy, and I'm thinking heck yeah, I don't want this to come back. Also, I had a "we don''t know what it is" biopsy on the other side, about 10 years ago, so I have made the decision to have a double mastectomy. It may seem radical, but...