Preventive Mastectomy: One Woman's Journey

PreventiveMastectomy:

One Woman'sJourney

O F F E R I N G I N F O R M A T I O N ,

S U P P O R T , P I C T U R E S , A N D H O P E .

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P R A I R I E W I F E I N H E E L S . C O M

"It's OK to be scared.Being scared means

you're about to dosomething really,

really brave."

I want toLive.

The reasons to undergo a PreventiveMastemcomty are numerous. Gentic markers

and high herditarty risk are the most common.

With a sister (diagnosed at 38) and a mother

with Breast Cancer it wasn't a question of if Iwould get Breast Cancer but when.

If I had to fight Cancer I knew I wanted to throw

the first punch.

I made this decision as a mother or FIVECHILDREN, still nursing my youngest who was

not yet one. If this surgery allowed me more

years with my family, months, weeks or days it

was worth it.

The lack of information/support I found onthe internet was laughable...so I set out to

change that.

I used my BlogPrairieWifeInHeels.com as a platform

to share my story.

I W R O T E P O S T S W I T H D E T A I L S A B O U T D O C T O R V I S I T S , S U R G E R Y C H O I C E S ,

H E L P F U L L I N K S T O M E D I C A L S I T E S , I N F O R M A T I O N I W I S H I K N E W , A N D I T E M S I

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7 months and three surgeries

"She never seemedshattered; to me,

she was abreathtakingmosaic of the

battles she's won."Matt Baker

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