Hi Everyone, I hope you're doing well. Just wanted to give you all an update. As you may recall from my previous blogs, I'm BRCA-1 and my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer at 38. I've been getting checked every 6 months since I was 25. 6 months ago they found something and I had a biopsy, which was negative. When I went for my 6 month follow up they found more and it was a bigger area of concern, so they opted for a surgical biopsy where they go in and remove all of the tissue in the area. It's been about 2 months since the original scan since it took time to get a pre surgery appointment and then schedule the surgery.

The surgery was this morning and went well. All in from arrival time to waiting to prep to surgery I was at the hospital for about 5 hours. I was pretty good spirit-wise until I actually laid down on the operating table, then I started to cry. Thankfully they knocked me out quickly. I woke up just as they were finishing the surgery (which also freaked me out a little) but they said it was ok. Everything went well and now I have to wait for the biopsy results from pathology, which they expect in about a week. I have a post-surgery appointment August 8th where they will make sure everything is healing well.

I'm home resting and DH is doing everything. We have SS7 and SS6 so that will be a challenge. They stayed with my parents last night and my dad is dropping them off soon. DH will take care of everything with him, the hardest thing will be getting them to remember they can't jump on my, wrestle with me, etc. We are also supposed to take them to Sesame Place Friday (Sesame Street themed water park) but my surgeon doesn't want me to get the incision sight wet which will be impossible on water slides, so I guess I will have to sit out

Of course the future topic came up before surgery. They were shocked I didn't have kids yet (even though I just turned 30 a month ago). They were asking when I was considering having the mastectomy and hysterectomy. In just not ready. I want to have a child of my own but can't until DH finds a job. I hate my stupid genes, I hate having to even think about it. I have the worst type of gene that basically makes the breast cancer I will get super aggressive , so they would prefer I have the surgery and nearly eliminate my chances.

That's all for now.