The Journey to a Foob

In 2016 I had a bilateral mastectomy scheduled in order to prevent breast cancer because my risk puts me at a 98% chance of getting breast cancer.

I found out I was pregnant with The Boy and now he is a whopping 18 months old. And it’s time to make sure I don’t have to fight for my life.

So The Man and I have spoken to my doctors and we are moving forward with my preventive bilateral mastectomy.

If you follow this page, the next little while will be posts about breast cancer and PBM’s. I’m very well versed in this, so if you continue to follow my page, please share. It’s so important for men and women to have genetic testing done.

Please pray for us as I go through this process and bear with me as I share a lot of TMI and photos etc.

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