I found out I had breast cancer because of a wild dream that woke me up in the middle of the night. In it, I was urged to schedule a screening so I could find out what was wrong. At first, I didn’t quite know what to make of it. But when I woke my…
My instinct is still to say, “I’m fine. I got this. I don’t need anything.” But I’m slowly letting my village support me the way I always support them. The single-mastectomy surgery went well, and they put in a spacer to prepare for reconstruction, which will happen later. I left surgery feeling relieved and excited…
Triple-negative breast cancer, or TNBC, is one of the more aggressive kinds of breast cancer. It’s also harder to treat since it does not respond to hormone therapy. I was immediately concerned I wasn’t going to make it. I found myself wondering, What are my odds and what about my baby? Usually, you have scans…
I was never good at doing breast self-exams. But one day in 2018, it occurred to me to check my breasts while I was in the shower—and I felt something. I’d just turned 40, and my daughters, Autumn and Lily, were one and five. When I felt the lump, I figured maybe it was related…
