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Although I'm happy with the good news from the biopsy, I still don't feel free. It is really a when, not an if, I get cancer. This is twice in 8 months something has come up, and it will just keep coming up. I am facing a double mastectomy and hysterectomy and I'm only 30....horribly invasive and disfiguring, plus I won't be able to have children and will go into menopause. I'm not ready for that quite yet, but everything has been weighing on me.

OT - Cancer Free!

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I just got the call from my doctor this morning, a few days early! What a relief. Although I will probably have to do this again in 6 months when they find something again. I'm hoping they won't since I had the tissue in the problem area removed.

I do have the push for a double mastectomy weighing on me, but I'm just not ready yet. That's something for another day.

OT- Surgical Biopsy Complete

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Hi Everyone, I hope you're doing well. Just wanted to give you all an update. As you may recall from my previous blogs, I'm BRCA-1 and my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer at 38. I've been getting checked every 6 months since I was 25. 6 months ago they found something and I had a biopsy, which was negative. When I went for my 6 month follow up they found more and it was a bigger area of concern, so they opted for a surgical biopsy where they go in and remove all of the tissue in the area.

SD17 came out as gay last night

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We just had SDs with us this past weekend, and she didn't say anything. We got this text from BM this morning:

"SD17 wanted to share some news but wanted me to share it. She's gay. S he came out to me last night. It was kind of a surprise to me, but also not. It will be hard for her as such a small population to date, but I'm glad she was born in a more accepting time. She'd love to hear from you with calls or messages of support. Of course she'll be asleep for a while"

Seriously? Am I cursed?

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As many of you know, my life has been a $hit sandwich and it seems like a new layer of meat is added weekly.

As you may know from my previous blogs, I am BRCA-1 positive (the gene that greatly increases your risk of breast and ovarian cancer) and my mom was diagnosed at 38. Thus, I get checked every 6 months with alternating MRIs and Mammos. I had an MRI last August that found something suspicious, and they did a biopsy which was thankfully negative.

DH Job Update - :-(

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Just when I think our life is going up, whoever is upstairs comes back to stomp me back into my place. The big consulting company called DH when we met for lunch with MIL today and cancelled his verbal job offer. Long story short, they couldn't find a division who would accept the additional payroll of taking him on. Why they would make him a verbal offer before sorting this out is beyond me.

Activity/Step Challenge - Activity.Club - All STalkers welcome!

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Per a previous post, a bunch of us expressed an interest in a step/activity group, especially for the challenge. I know some people use fitbit, apple, android, or other devices, so the app Activity.Club allows us to all join together on one interface. You can do daily, weekly, and other types of challenges.

A month straight of in-laws visiting begins tomorrow

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Today is SS's 6th birthday and I miss that little stinker. I haven't seen him since Christmas. With DH laid off, it's been too expensive for us both to fly down once a month like we used to, so he has gone once after Christmas and before now. We do facetime almost every night, which helps.

DH got the offer!!!!!!!!

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I could just melt with relief. I still won't 100% believe it until it is accepted and signed on paper and he starts work lol.

The offer is pretty decent. It's less than half of what he was making before getting laid off, but he wasn't expecting to make what he used to make.

The real shock is they threw inn a very nice and completely unexpected CASH bonus, as well as an even bigger vesting over 3 years bonus to make up for the lower base salary. We were so thrilled, as we've been eating through our savings these last years and this will greatly help.

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