Breast Cancer and other life stuff

     ALMOST CHRISTMAS, Almost 1 year ago I heard CANCER! Almost a year since my diagnosis. I thought I'd be long through Treatment by now. It started with a diagnosis that seemed to keep me waiting forever to hear. I knew the moment I felt the lump, that I had cancer, I am not a person who jumps to conclusions, nor am I an alarmist. I did not have a family history of breast cancer. I just knew. I am almost a year away from hearing the surgeon tell me it is cancer, both breast. She did not have to convince e to have a double mastectomy. I almost cut her off as she was telling me options, to tell her I wanted the cancer gone, all of it.  She said it could be a lumpectomy. She would decide when she opened me up. She talked of trying to save the nipple. Maybe a lumpectomy on the left as it was a lesser degree of cancer in that breast. She told me I caught it early. (I thought that meant radiation and done)  I don't want a mastectomy on the right ,a lumpectomy on ...