When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in November 2017, as probably many of you did, I started looking for the best diet I could find in order to improve my health. I read many blogs, a couple of books and many people told me hundreds of remedies, therapies, diets, you name it.
In my journey through cancer recovery, I learned that everything we eat, put on, smell and touch takes an effect in our health.
After starting chemotherapy, skin gets really dry. The cells that reproduce faster are the ones that are “killed” faster with chemo medications. Therefore, all the moisture of the skin gets lost.
For those who are living with the decision of having a mastectomy or a lumpectomy, it’s not an easy choice. I remember that I knew what I wanted. I wanted to keep my breast if possible, but I also didn’t know if that was going to be a choice.
That fresh morning in October (Breast Cancer Awareness Month, by the way) I had the phone call from my doctor’s assistant. He said that the Doctor wanted me to go to his office to discuss my results. That didn’t happen the year before. I knew then that he had bad news.
After my first biopsy, (the one I mentioned in my first post), I went the next year in the very same month to have my mammogram. This time, the mammogram had another surprise. My previous lump had disappeared, but I had new calcifications in a different place in the same breast. I didn’t even know what “calcifications” were. The radiologist explained they were like pencil-size dots and that I needed a biopsy.
This is how everything started. This is how my story with breast cancer began.
I started getting mammograms relatively young. I remember that when I was 39 years old, I had my first one. My OBGYN told me that he felt a lump in my right breast and that he wanted me to have a mammogram. After I had it, the radiologist recommended that I continue to watch it. I really didn’t even feel it. But I guess it was better to be safe.
