Survivor Anniversary

Yesterday was a special day to me. It marked a new anniversary date in my life. A year ago yesterday, I received results from a breast biopsy I'd had the day before: the "suspicious" lump in my breast was invasive breast cancer. How easy it is to type that sentence now - and how difficult it was to wrap my head around a year ago.

My, we've all come a long way since June 3, 2011! This blog has provided a wonderful way to spread news, share information, and educate about my personal journey through and beyond breast cancer. Thank you, readers, for following along and making me feel like my writings are important, useful, interesting, and sometimes humorous.

Naturally, Joshua and I couldn't let an anniversary slip by without doing something to commemorate the occasion. We printed out a Groupon and headed out for...SUSHI! :) See a trend? Thought so.

So it's only fitting that today I met with my plastic surgeon to discuss the "next step" - the lovely switch-out surgery. First off, he thought my breast skin looked good and handled radiation nicely. That felt wonderful to hear coming from him! He didn't think there would be any benefit to me waiting above and beyond my 6-month window post-radiation for the switch-out surgery. (Music to my ears, but I'd do pretty much anything he'd recommend if I knew it would help my body and its reaction to this upcoming surgery.)

Although the expanders have done their job (stretching my skin to accommodate the implants), I'm of the opinion that I've lived with them long enough. They will have been in me 9 months and 6 days, to be exact! Definitely looking forward to the softer, movable implants. Now I'll cut to the chase: switch-out surgery will be on July 31. Oh, happy day!