I hate to keep preaching on the rare times I've posted in last several months, but I can't express the importance of this enough!!!

PLEASE, PLEASE, ladies, and guys, preach as much as it takes to get your wives, mothers, sisters, aunts, friends, ANY ladies in your lives that you love and care about(or even those you don't!!) to get their mammograms!!

I know I've posted this before, but if any of you missed it, it was only by the grace of God that my Dr. found the breast cancer when he did, because I was neglectful and put everyone else before me and didn't have a mammogram for 4 years. (I could have swore it was only 2!)

It was only because I went to a thorough Dr. that ran a bunch of tests and found my hormone levels low, so he wanted to put me on an a bio-identical estrogen cream when he suggested that I get a mammogram, because the cream doesn't cause cancer, but can cause certain cancers to grow quickly.(Which happened to be my type of cancer)

Sure enough, the mammogram showed something that caused me to need an ultrasound. That's when they discovered the small tumor. (Thank you to the man above!) A month later, when I had the bilateral mastectomy, Doc found 2 more very small tumors.

I still went through hell, but thanks to my Dr. being diligent, my cancer was discovered early!

My Oncologist has told me that because of my radical decision on the surgery option I chose, and his aggressive chemo therapy that he put me through, (I'm so thankful, but it wasn't a walk in the park), as well as the post treatment meds I will be on for 10 years (because my cancer was HER2 positive, which is a hormone driven cancer),he would like to consider me cancer free, but he's a realist and doesn't like to claim anyone is cancer free until they've gone 5 years without re-occurrence to declare them cancer free.

So, I'm trying to remain positive, but that fear still remains in the back of my mind, and probably will, always.

The one thing I know from sure is that after my surgical decision, I pray that I will never hear the words......"You have breast cancer" again.

I can't even express the twilight zone I felt like I was in when I heard those words. It was truly like the worst nightmare ever!!

Please, please, encourage the women you love to get mashed in that aweful machine, as painful as it is, it might hopefully save their lives!!!

Again, XOXOX Kim