Why do I click? I click for my mom. December 28, 2001 she found out that she had a massive lump the size of a jumbo egg in her left breast that was only able to be found via a biopsy. Neither mammo or ultrasound could penetrate the shelf wall on the side of her breast so the only other option was a biopsy.
A week after that we found out that not only did she have invasive ductile breast cancer, but she also had inflammatory breast cancer. A rare and very aggressive breast cancer that affects only 1-5% of all breast cancer cases. Inflammatory breast cancer is a Stage 4 cancer. The end of January 2002, my dad died. February 2002, he was buried and the next day my mom started chemo. In August of 2002 she had a radical double mastectomy followed by 6 weeks of radiation.
She is an 8 year survivor of not only the invasive ductile breast cancer, but also the inflammatory breast cancer. Out of the small percentage who survive IBC, only 25-30% survive the next 5 years. She is one of a very small handful who made it to 5 years (and past) without a recurrence of any kind of cancer. God has been very gracious to her with regard to what she has been through with her two kinds of breast cancer.
I click for her!
Austin, TX
