Life moved quickly and blissfully for four beautiful years, a span of time when I met and married my husband Lee, to buying a new house, having a career and busy travel schedule, to the birth of our daughter, Grace, in June 2010. It was the happiest time of my life.

I knew that my breasts would change after I finished breastfeeding Grace at 5 months, however I soon discovered some unwelcome changes including a hard, pebble-sized lump in my left breast just before Grace’s first birthday. It just didn’t feel right. I called my doctor’s office and made an appointment in two weeks time after I’d retued from a business trip in Miami. During that period, I spent so much time messing with the spot that I left a large green bruise the size of my thumb and I could no longer find the spot. When I got home, I cancelled my doctor’s appointment, thinking I was being paranoid, and promptly put the lump out of my head.
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