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My mother said that I had the most beautiful shaped head of all her daughters. Tomorrow I begin Chemo treatments to prevent the spread of breast cancer throughout my body. I was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer in January. I was able to stop the spread by removing my breasts and about 27 lymph nodes living underneath my right arm. Now my right arm will be forever susceptible to circulation loss so I will be unable to use tourniquets or needles on the right side ever again. Having chemo treatments is another prophylactic treatment, like my decision to remove my left breast to reduce the risk of the cancer spreading throughout my body. I can reduce the risk from 60% to about 30% by having chemotherapy for the next four months. I hope my 36-year-old head is still as beautiful as my baby cranium was back in the day. I needed to remove the right breast to remove all of the cancer, I had her take the left too because how ridiculous would it look to have just the one size 36 H ti

The night of our Family Hanukkah party I noticed a lump in my right breast. It was a strange solid rock under my nipple. I had never felt a lump like it before. My first thought, oh shit, I have cancer. It is astonishing how sure I was. I felt the same way the one and only time I missed a period and discovered that I was pregnant. I called Mom and asked her to look at my boob at her clinic the next day. The lump was taking up four inches under the skin in my right breast. I do not know how long it may have been growing inside me. I do wonder what change in my life may have made me vulnerable to the cancer. I eat good food, I’ve been health conscious for my entire adult life, I try to steer away from processed foods and heavy fats. I garden, stay away from pesticides, I shop organic and lean towards farmers markets, and I am a scratch cook, my diet is focused around whole foods. The biopsy at OU breast care center confirmed that it was infiltrating ductal carcinoma insitu. I have br