Recently Diagnosed

Hi there, I am a 35 year old mother of two and fitness trainer.  I recently was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer along with DCIS.  They took three centinal nodes which were negative.  I had my port placed.  My PET scan showed nothing that we didn't already know about.  This puts me on the edge of stage 1 or 2.  Today my BRCA testing came back positive for BRCA 1 gene mutation.  The plan now stands to do chemo either the dose dense for 4 months or the longer 6 months, then double mastectomy with reconstruction, then possibly my ovaries.  This is tough.  I live an extremely healthy lifestyle so this is a really hard pill to swallow.  Plus now there are implications for my two daughters as well as my siblings (we had zero family history of cancer up until me).  I'm seeing a nutritionist Friday to help me through chemo and likely I will start chemo the following week.  I'm super scared and just overwhelmed by all of this.      

Jayhy,

Natalie, thank you.  Two different oncologists suggested I did not do dose dense, so I will do the 6 months of AC+TC with AC being first.  

Edited by JayHy - Nov 03 2013 at 12:17pm

Hi Jay.  I remember how scary these first few weeks are.  Calm down and breathe and know that cancer doesn't pick only the unfit but you didn't do anything to cause this. It doesn't seem like it but this is happening to you for a reason - at least that is my philosophy in life.  I look back on the past 9 months since my diagnosis, and there are so many wonderful things that have happened to me due to the fight with this beast.