in 2001 i found a lump in my armpit. I had my husband check it as well. I just figured it was from deodorant or an ingrown hair. Then a year later, i discovered a teeny lump in my right breast. I went to the doctor who sent me for a mammogram. they also did an ultrasound. The dr scheduled me for a surgical biopsy. I remember being confident it was nothing. the dr came in and told me the lump in my armpit and a lump in breast were cancerous. The little one i found, was benign. i never even felt the other lump in my breast. After another surgery and failed Sentinal node (to check the lymph nodes) showed that the cancer had spread to 4 of 14 nodes, and they staged me Stage 3B. After 8 chemo's and 33 radiation treatments, i'm 12 years cancer free) i was never sick. i only missed work for the surgeries. i worked through chemo and radiation. I fought chemo with a sense of humor. I mocked it, had friends mock it. we all laughed together. I know that humor got me through it.
debpine valley, CA