May 27th, 1995, the day I entered my doctor's office and his nurse sat next to me. He was a new doctor for me and first explains that he has good news and bad news.
I said tell me the bad news first. You have breast cancer BUT it's a very small tumor, the size of a pea and we can do something about it. You can choose a lumpectomy or a mastectomy. I was alarmed and the first thing that I could say; "If this was your wife, what would you recommend? He answered a lumpectomy."
Since 1995, I have had several lumpectomies, they call them biopsies but the surgeons take out enough tissue that my left breast is quite a bit different in size than my right breast, making my shoulders a bit tipsy.
I am still around 19 years later and my first grandchild turns 19 in September.
Manchester, NH
