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Brenda's Story

Age when diagnosed: 30 and under
Virginia, United States of America
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The start of all my worries

Wed, Aug 26 2009 by Brenda

On July 1,2007 I found out i was pregnant i was so happy considering i was told after my first child i would have to go back on fertility meds to get pregnant.  Well, they were wrong!!  I was so happy until July 2, 2007 i was bathing and i felt a lump the size os a softball, mind youthis was not there the day before.  I was in utter shock.  I had just lost my grandmother on Febuary 9 from cancer, and now i had a lump!

I did not know what to do i screamed for my husband to come feel it, and he told me not to worry that it was probably nothing.  Of course i couldnot listen to that advice considering what i had seen my grandmother go through.  I made an appt. that day to go to the doctor the following wed.  When i got there my blood was taken, and they felt the lump.  From July until October i was told that i had- had a Cist, then a fibroid adenoma (benine), and then "oh your pregnant it is normal for you to have a swollen milk duct".  Well October 2 a biospy was done after my doctor yelling and fighting she wanted it done because i was a high risk, and i also wanted it, but the radiologists did not want to do it because according to them "she is only 24 there is no way someone her age would get breast cancer"!  Well, the biopsy was done and with alot of pain.  The tumor i had was the type that did not accept numbing medication, so needless to say i felt everything.  I was told it would sound like a sewing machine and not to be scared well that is kinda hard.

After the Biopsy was done i waited three days for the results.  On Oct 5 my doctor called me and said that it was imperative i got there ASAP. At that moment i knew something was wrong.  Had i not been through enough the lose of my grandfather, and mind you my grandfather had past away on July5, so i was having it rough, but then i found a lump, and was told that my unborn child had Tri-Semi 18 a condition that when born there is no such life outside the womb.  The thouht of just my child dieing killed me alltogether.

Finally, once i arrived everyone was abnormally nice.  When my doctor called me into the room she looked at me and said "I have bad news, you do have breast cancer", It was like i had got punched in the face.  What did i do to deserve this was i a bad daughter? or did God just not like me? my husband was hystericall.  My doctor told me she wanted me to see a good friend of hers who was an oncologist, of course i agreed what other choice did ihave.   I had no idea how to act, nor did i know what lay ahead.