Persistence

I was 35 and leaking fluid out my right breast and went in for a mammo. They found something unfamiliar in the left and did a biopsy, of course they found nothing and told me to come back when I was 40, but felt compelled to keep getting mammos every year. I went in to have a mammo in June 2007 and ended up getting an ultrasound a few days later. Then I got a biopsy and they found cancer, I was 39 years old. My Doctor did a lump-ectomy and only had to have Radiation Treatments. I never lost my hair, but shave it in support of everyone with any kind of cancer. I am a 2nd Generation Down-Winder with no family history of Breast Cancer, and was born too late in the 1960's.

Stacie
Cedar City, UT