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No lymph node involvement!

 Very good news, the sentinal lymph nodes had no cancer cells! So, I'm officially stage 1.  In two weeks I'll learn if they got clean margins, and 4 weeks after surgery I should know my Oncotype score.  The pain is in check. Off to a good start! 

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My boobies

At my mammogram ten years ago, they found a mass. "Don't worry, but you'll need an ultrasound and biopsy, just to be a 100% safe, but DON'T WORRY."  I worried anyway, but it turned out to be a fibroadenoma, benign. Common in pre-menopausal women with dense breast tissue. They left a little piece of metal in my left booby to mark the spot.  Every year since, I have gotten a mammo, the last screening one was May 2024, normal. But around late December, early January, I started feeling a little nagging itch inside my right breast. A very strange sensation. I scratched it, and it came and went for a few weeks until one time in late January I felt a lump under the skin. Ran to my primary care doc, and she felt it too. She wrote me a diagnostic mammogram order, with ultrasound.  At this appointment, they did not tell me "don't worry." And the ultrasound doctor said "yeah, I don't like the looks of this, but whatever it is, it's small, 1.4 cm...