Make America Healthy Again... in more ways than one!

Makes me think that it is time to up our monthly donation to Planned Parenthood.
So those women who do not have money for insurance or doctors visits can continue to get treated.

Life is precious.

My wife wasn't so lucky, so it's always good to hear when someone gets better news!

Please remember that men get breast cancer too. (Roughly 1%) Do a self check every now and then.

What a relief.

WHEW!

So many folks I know are fighting cancer now. It is so depressing. If only repubs would see the light and stop focusing on what divides us.

who is joining "the club no one wants to join". As I told a new breast cancer patient recently, the initiation is brutal.

Celebrate!

cheers.

Glad she is ok.

Glad your wife does not have a tumor.

n/t.

💖

I was a young adult...never told anyone either for a few years, as I thought I was too young for anything like that..
Phew!

My story about lumps in my breast:

Years ago a horse bit me on the right breast - crushed the entire outer half. Nasty injury, I couldn't wear a bra for over a month, most of the skin sloughed off so even a light weight shirt hurt. It left me with a series of small hard calcified nodules in the breast. As a precaution, I have been getting mammograms every couple of years since I was thirty five.

One year at my regular check up my doctor had his new nurse practitioner do my exam. She apparently had not read my full file - understandable since it was over two inches thick with the records of all my injuries up to that point. She began doing the breast exam and turned absolutely white. I realized she was feeling the lumps and tried to reassure her - I did regular self exams and knew the locations of each lump and knew they had not changed.

The NP immediately picked up the phone to call the mammography clinic, ignoring my calls to her to listen. She was intent on getting me tested as soon as possible - at that time the mammography clinic regularly had a three to six month waiting list. She got me scheduled for two days later. THEN the NP listened to me, ran out, got the doctor who reassured her the lumps were normal for me.

I kept that appointment since I needed to get a mammogram anyway but as I expected they found nothing new, just the same old lumps.

Now anytime I get a new practitioner, I warn them in advance - there are lumps, it's OK, I know those lumps - they have names! I don't ever want to scare anyone the way that poor woman was scared for me!

I am happy your wife came out muh better than I did.

Large ones. Put RSO on them daily. Several weeks later... Gone. I will only see a doctor for broken bone, cuts, injuries.. I refuse to be a part of the big pharm and hospital $$$ making machine.