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My condolences to you on losing your mom. You've been through a lot.

Hi Kathleen, it would be so great to meet you in person. I live in Vancouver, WA and I know that you are in Oregon. Do you get involved with Breastfriends too? I've only looked up the website and I have been in contact with their free therapist. I'm getting a mastectomy this week Friday. You mentioned that you waited to get your second one. The thought of getting a second one scares me right now because the other breast doesn't have cancer and I have no genetic mutations....not sure if I'll change my mind in the future.

Would you mind sharing why you are getting a 2nd mastectomy? I ask because I'm getting a single mastectomy in a few days and someone said maybe I should reconsider getting it on both sides...even though I don't have a genetic mutation.

Yay for normalizing changing your mind on something when presented with new information! Awesome. I was diagnosed at the end of August with grade 3 DCIS and I don't qualify for a lumpectomy, very nervous for my DMX in a couple of weeks but I feel solid in my decision. Been enjoying your channel lately, thank you!

Two months since my single simple mastectomy for invasive lobular cancer and doing quite well. Really liking your RUclips channel and podcasts 😊

Hi, I just wanted to say how much I appreciate and enjoy your videos. I’m incredibly grateful that you generously share your experiences and personal journey with us. In this particular video, especially around the part after 16:30 when you talk about giving yourself space and becoming more comfortable with changes in your body, I really connected with what you said. I've been struggling with something similar, and the people around me, even my husband, don’t seem to understand why I’ve needed to withdraw and create some space. I’ve never been able to put these feelings into words, but hearing you express it so beautifully feels like you’re speaking for me. Thank you so much for your honesty and for articulating what so many of us go through but often can’t explain. Sending you love and appreciation. 🌹❤️

Thank you for your very informative videos. I wonder whether they found any DCIS or ILC in the breast tissue? Did you get the lab results?

Did you have numbness in your armpit or swelling after your DMX and lymph nodes removed?

Had a lumptectamy considering bilatetal mastectomy with reconstruction.

This most comforting video I have watched so far. Thank you.

I have pink and purple ribbon tattoos on my wrist. I love to see other women who have pink ribbon tats. I too am a flattie who has had a terrible history and an outcome that is not what I expected. You resonate with me a lot. I really want to thank you for your willingness to put these videos out for others. You are a blessing!

Be sure to check out my other channel where I interview survivors! It's @abreastcancerdiary

I get angry at the advertising on social media. Just advertising products and not educating people about the disease. I equally dislike letters sent by breast cancer organisations with it clearly labeled on the envelope who they are. I live in a small community, this advertising on the envelope told everyone that I have breast cancer! Not something I chose to tell people.

Thank you. I'm just starting out with DCIS. I have had two lumpectomies. I can see both sides of pinktober - the exploitation, the community. I am choosing community while being aware and speaking out about the exploitation. Again, thank you for sharing.

I just had a dubble mastsecity 3 weeks ago and love the pink. Never felt ashamed, and will open to getting pink ribbon tattoo 💕💕💕👚👛🌸🎟️

Thank you. First year for me 🌸 I’m still trying to figure out how I feel about all the pink

Good Lord the woman lives in the dark ages. Its MY body. I have to live with it, not anyone else. Hearing that from a surgeon thats shocking.

Just found you today. I'm currently waiting for a surgery date for a double mastectomy. Spacers will be imputed the same day. Then 3 months later, implants. My breast cancer from 1995 is back. A lot has changed but I'm still scared. I'm now 68. I pray & put one foot in front of the other.

I would start yoga sooner

I was just diagnosed with dcis, grade 2 with comedo necrosis, no invasive found. Seeing a surgeon tomorrow. Thank you so much for your videos. Have helped so much. And have started seeing the sites saying dcis isnt cancer. Well, mine is, and telling people its ok makes me furious. They could be killing people. One that does this actually does consultations to sell HRT, you know, the hormones that specifically feed dcis. I am receptor positive, so in essence, she would be feeding dcis so it could advance faster, and telling people it isnt cancer. You have been a voice of reason in this. Thank you for sharing your journey.❤

Happened to me. Operated the wrong breast and stuff like that. Love you! Stay strong ❤

I just had a double mastectomy on Wednesday, today is Saturday, I’m at home and a nurse came by to help me. It was the first time I saw what it looks like. She helped me get the bandage off and I took a Shower, letting soapy water run over the area. I really appreciate you sharing your outcome with us. That takes courage. I’m 80 so I’m not going to do anything to make it look better, I’m just grateful to have the cancer gone and it will be easier to find clothes to fit without the triple D cups.

I am 70. Last December diagnosis was R breast cancer that had spread and is inoperable. I was placed on Ibrance for a month, then Anastrozole was added which made me VERY sick. Insurance wouldn’t approve Ibrance so kasqali was prescribed with letrozole and they made me horribly sick! I have opted to stop them and only do carnivore which has been proven for about the last 40 years to work by Professor Thomas Seyfried at Boston college.

This is such perfect timing for me, and very likely for many others. Thank you.

Never be embarrassed because you are blessed.

Several years post simple bilateral mastectomy - good riddance to bad rubbish.

can you advise me what suppements you use or advise me what to get. Thanks.

I'm a cancer sufferer both breasts one removed now spread to my ribs so ct scan next month. Your videos are very conforting and your ways with words are pleasant. Keep up the good work, I have subscribed and playing all yoour videas.

This was incredibly useful, thank you so much !

You are so very pretty. Your videos really are helpful. I'm finding this to be a confusing subject. I guess because it's suddenly come upon me from nowhere. Again (lol!). Thank you for doing this.

What type surgey dr called to invasive breast cancer ??

What type surgery dr called to invasive breast cancer in stage 3 ????

Yikes.

I decided after doing some research to do DIEP flap where they did a tummy tuck and took the fat & skin from there to make one left breast. The surgeon i had at University of Washington in Seattle, WA was very compasionate plastic surgeon. They hook the vein from the flap to a vein in your chest that keeps the skin alive. Doctor was from Canada and was one of the best vein transplant surgeons in the world. It worked out successfully for me. They created a nipple and i did not have it tatooed because i dont believe in tatooing my body. Also by then i had been through enough with masectomy surgery, chemo & radiation. You can't tell from the outside of my clothing that theres any difference in size of both sides. Im glad they invented this type of reconstruction because i didnt want to use an implants because my nephews wife got sick from them. I had the surgery in 2011 and all is well with my reconstruction still. I like the UW doctors because they are pasionate doctors and listen to you & what you want to have done. The plastic surgeon was here in Seattle to teach other doctors in the field of plastic surgery how to do vein transplants for DIEP flap breast recinstruction. When i went to have my histrectomy in 2019 the OBGYN thought they did a good job on my reconstructed breast.

So, are you saying that I need to wait a good year to see scars healed? I did a Goldilock procedure in my left breast is still puffy and my right breast has gone flat. I’m a little disappointed in the outcome, but I do have an opportunity to go back for additional reconstructive surgery, which I’ll probably just do fat grafting.

I've just decided I'm going to have this surgery, now that I have cancer in the breast that didn't have it the first time. The first one was 14 years ago at age 54. It was stage I DCIS, and I had a lumpectomy with radiation, no chemo, and five years on estrogen blocking medication that made mr baldish before I'd gone gray. The radiation made my treated breast go from a DD to a B cup size Now I have invasive cancer in the other DD. Frankly I am looking forward to this. I was promised a matching "pair" at Kaiser, Walnut Creek, with no radiation, chemo, or estrogen blocking medication, or any future mammograms. I think I'm all in!! But I also think I need to watch your videos, before meeting with the reconstructive surgeon in a couple of days. Thank you SO MUCH for doing this.❤

I wish I had found out about this before I spent $380 on the most uncomfortable bra that I had fitted.

I had lobular in one side in 2 quadrants with lynphnode involvement in 2009. I had one side masectomy & lymphnode disection on same side. I had 6mo chemo with taxole& one red bag of Doxirubicin. Lost the hair on my head but not eye lashes nor eyebrows. I then had 30 radiation treatments & booster to chest. I had to stop working period at 54yrs old. I had a reoccurance of a lumbar spine tumor 2023 that was causing spinal compression so they radiated tumor with 10 treatments. I tried letrozole with Versenio but not for long it didnt work so im on chemo pills campetibine twice daily. Im giving it 3 cycles ea 21days in a 30 day period. If my petscan shows improvement ill keep going if not im stopping any treatment. They zapped the tumor it was 90% estrogen positive & 10% progestrine positive & HER2 negative. Lobular cancer can reoccur in stomach & bones up to 15 yrs later. Mine initial diagnosis 2009 came back trying for my bones 2023 it got confused with gallstone. Has historectomy in 2019 so it wouldnt hit my ovaries as it can. Follow up for years on this disease because ILC is a systemic disease. Watch world symposium 2023 in Chicago for alot of good knowledge on ILC

Love your spirit and thank you for your videos. 1 year ago, I went through a bilateral mastectomy operation and I thought my life was over. Saw your videos and realized people like you are living proof that life continues and there is still beauty in each of us that has survived breast cancer. Thank you for sharing your journey.

Hi! Would you mind speaking about if you have any pain (nerve pain) and/or numbness? Thank you so much for this.

Dr's/surgeons, lawyers; are majority the same. Egotistical "well... I have a degree, you don't" attitude. 90% + times are pushing THEIR OWN agenda, or someone else's. ... & it's got NOTHING TO DO with YOU ! - as a human, person, woman, -educated or not. It's NOT ABOUT YOU. it's alll about them; their agenda, career advancements,driven by politics, big pharma, and MOST IMPORTANTLY.... MONEY !! ... GET. THAT. they CAN'T STAND " good questions" and are UNWILLING to "Educate their CLIENT" with TRUTH . PERIOD. ... I've "followed the science". however, If you " Follow the MONEY TRAIL" .... It'll lead you STRAIGHT to the truth !!

Really glad my friend found this and set this to me today.

I'll be having my surgery next month. I was told that the Goldilocks procedure leaves open the possibility of having an implant later if I choose to do that, but if I "go flat", I won't have that option later. Thank you for making this video.

Thank you for sharing. My scars are still healing too. Your videos are so helpful to me to not feel alone. You are a beautiful woman, such a wonderful smile. I had a 4mm ILC lesion discovered in left breast with my dbl mastectomy 5/24/23 for DCIS rt side and widespread lobular hyperplasia bilaterally. I am still not decided on the AI meds. I took one briefly, was tough. Have yet to find a lobular spec onc near me, in FL. I lead a healthy lifestyle too. God bless!

ESRI MUTATIONS WITH HORMONE BlOCKER THERAPIES CAN BE UP TO 50% DOESNT MAKE SENSE TO ME.

You are beautiful inside and out. Thank you for sharing. I’m supposed to have a double mastectomy due to 69% risk. I’m not sure what to do, but your videos are helpful. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing! You look beautiful!! 🤍🙏🏼

I got a diagnosis 4 weeks ago, and found your channel in trying to make decisions about my treatment. Yesterday, I watched the post-op Goldilocks video. Today was my plastic surgeon consultation, and he suggested the Goldilocks! Because I had found you, I knew what that was. I agreed to it, but was still hesitant. Then your video popped up, and now I'm more confident in my choice. Thank you for being vulnerable and willing to educate. I appreciate you.

You look beautiful!

What a useful and reassuring video. Thank you for making it. I just found out days ago that I will need a mastectomy so I'm at the beginning of my journey. Your information, plus the calm and reasoned way you presented it, is really helpful.