AllMyLifeRed's Journey with Breast Cancer

May 2010...heard those 3 dreaded words...you have cancer.

Began chemotherapy on June 23, 2010. Lost all my hair, my appetite, my everything....

December 29, 2010...double mastectomy, sentinal node biopsy, reconstruction.

After 12 weeks of having the expanders filled to the size that I chose, I had the actual 650 ml implants inserted on May 10, 2010.

5 nodes were removed and 3 still had cancer.

Because I had completed chemo and responded well to the treatment (tumors had disappeared), my doctor was surprised to find that 3 of the 5 nodes that he removed still had cancer. He suggested radiation. After lots of prayer and having my case presented in front of the "tumor board", I chose to decline radiation and move along with the reconstruction.

Began reconstruction with the latissimus dorsi flap procedure and expanders.

Chose to have the nipple reconstructed on October 3, 2011. Easy...Peasy!!