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In reply to the discussion: Breast cancer is not fun! [View all]

BlueMTexpat

(15,369 posts)
2. Sending LOTS of good energy your way!
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 03:21 PM
Apr 2016

I was VERY fortunate. My breast cancer was discovered during a routine mammogram.

I was in total denial - had NO symptoms whatsoever - but happened to be in the right place at the right time with the right medical personnel who jumped right into action with precision. By the time I was just beginning to accept that I had cancer, the ordeal was effectively over. But I was minus a natural breast and a lot of lymph nodes. I did have a newly reconstructed breast though.

They got everything, so no follow-up radiation, no chemo and no more surgery needed. Oh, SOOOO lucky! The Force was with me. But it took me about six months longer to accept what had happened and to realize what a bullet I had dodged.

May The Force be with you too! May you look chic with your new haircut and glamorous with your wigs! May you soon regain your sense of taste! Most of all, may you regain your health completely, sail through this ordeal, and be able to look back at it and laugh with your sense of humor intact as well!

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