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Breast Cancer awareness month - a personal story National Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a chance to raise awareness about the importance of finding breast cancer early. Studies show having diabetes is associated with an increased risk of developing cancer, including breast cancer. This is why maintaining the right amount of glucose in our bodies is so important. By Mitzi Bault Do you know that October is breast cancer awareness month? My mother always got a mammogram and she encouraged my sister, Marcia, and I do the same. Because of this I got one in 1997. This is the best gift you can give to your family. My family has had a history of benign lumps in breasts and also breast cancer. In 1997 my father-in-law was dying from cancer and I was diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in the right breast. I started not to go back to my surgeon because always before the lumps had been benign. I just knew that it was benign and I didn't want to bother Ricky while he was going thru his father's hospice care. I finally told Ricky and he insisted that I see the surgeon in Campbellsville, who said he needed to do surgery next week to remove my breast. I was stunned. After leaving the doctor's office I drove down to Holmes Bend and sat in my car and cried. How am I going to tell Ricky? I drove back to my in-laws house and Ricky met me at the door and asked, "How did it go?" and with the look on his face I couldn't tell him the truth. So I said everything is fine. A few days later his dad passed, we had Thanksgiving and Christmas and after the first of the year Dr. Phil Aaron told me that I needed to go to Baptist East in Louisville. That's when I finally told Ricky. From that time on, I promised to never keep anything health wise from him again. I then started twenty eight radiation treatments in Glasgow. I also stayed on the drug Tamoxphen for over five years. In 2009 my breast cancer came back in both breasts at the same time. I had a double mastectomy at Norton's Breast Center. Three years later lumps came under my arms that were diagnosed as carcinoma. These had to be removed. This is my breast cancer history. God has been with me thru all of this. I am still here and I encourage women over 40 (and if you have a family member with Breast Cancer, under 40) to have a mammogram. If you are diagnosed, the best thing is to see a good doctor and NEVER GIVE UP!! - Mitzi You can make a difference! Spread the word about mammograms, and encourage communities, organizations, families, and individuals to get involved. This story was posted on 2019-10-17 07:14:39
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