The Perfect Storm
No, I did NOT skip a mammogram. Phew! It feels good to get that out there. For some reason I feel the need to protect my reputation as the responsible, rule-abiding, appointment-keeping person that I am. I also feel the need to let other rule-abiding people know that you can find yourself up sh**'s creek even if you keep all of your appointments and ask all of the right questions (or at least what you think are the right questions!). The human body is complex and our ability to see what's going on inside at any given moment limited. Neither people nor technology are infallible. That said, intuition is a powerful thing and I wish that I had trusted mine a wee bit more. The thing is that I kinda felt something was amiss and I kinda asked my doctors to take a closer look at a potential "problem area" in my right breast months before a biopsy would show that I had ductal carcinoma. By then the cancer had already bust out of the duct...