The Plan is in Force....double mastectomy

Afer 45 minutes, not too bad, we get called into the doctors office.  He has all the final reports and results, the right breast biopsy came back negative to cancer, that was a relief, but regardless the breast is coming off.  All of my scans were clear, no lesions in any organs or bones, thank the Lord, but my dam lymph nodes are affected so they have to be removed.

In the end my uninvited guest is bigger then we thought, initially it was recorded at about 2 cm on The mammogram (bullshit) it's actually 6.5cm x 5cm and 2.5cm in thickness. That sounds about right, when I touch it it feels a lot bigger than 2cm. A mammogram nor the ultrasound recorded the proper dimension of it, the MRI gave it the accurate reading.

My decision was not an easy one with many factors to consider, my cancer being 95% hormonal means that as long as have one breast and my ovaries my risk of recurrence is elevated.  That was enough for me to make the decision that I wanted a double mastectomy and at the end of all this battle I will have my ovaries removed. Some people may think why, she is crazy, leave the other breast.  My view on this is simple, having to sit in a doctors office and have the wind knocked out of you to tell you that you have breast cancer or any other cancer are words that you never fathom hearing.  I don't want to hear those words ever again, and if I have a way of preventing it now, then I will. Cancer may or may not come back one day, but it will not be because I was not proactive at the time of the original diagnosis. So with that decision, my double mastectomy with lymph nodes removal is scheduled for February 12.  

In my house it's all or nothing, surgery on the 12th and I move out of my house on the 27th, I guess everything happens for a reason.  This move will be hard, but my husband is awesome and we have a great support team, but will make the battle easier...

Any of you who know me, know very well that I am a fighter.  I have been fight for 10 years with my daughter to get her to where she is today and I'll be dammed  if I will not fight this bastard with every part of me.  Will go through the ups and downs, but in the end I will be a "SURVIVOR". 

Thank you all for your support, awareness is so important.