I was diagnosed with breast cancer two years after I found my birth-aunt and she told me "we have breast cancer in the family, make sure you get checked!" I switched to annual mammograms and there it was, one of those years I would not have been checked. The 8mm lump was dead center and very aggressive (5 weeks later it was 1cm). A lumpectomy, chemotherapy and radiation (and 8 months of my life) later, I found myself starting over.
Every day is a gift, every person a shining star, every moment a new beginning. Cancer was an epiphany and a new beginning!
Napa, CA
