A woman shares her experience with breast implants and a cancer diagnosis, describing her medical journey and conversations with doctors about treatment. She discusses elevated cancer markers and the decisions she faced with her healthcare providers.
And as I continued down that journey, I still fought and was like, I want these breast implants out. I want to see if I'll get feeling better if these are removed. And as I started down that journey, we discovered through all of these other different tests and trials that I had two markers for breast cancer. It's not the main markers of the brca. There are several others, but I did have those too. And I remember sitting in. I'd been meeting with plastic surgeons for years, general surgeons, and now I found my myself in an oncologist office. And the oncologist doctor said, looked me right in the eye and said, it's not if, but when you get cancer. And you are super lucky because we can just remove your breast tissue and keep your implants and you're going to have a much easier surgery. And I about lost my mind. So that was the point that I started pushing back, because I said, but that's the whole reason why I started on this journey, was to get the implants out. And so we started going through other reconstruction options. And I had watched so many people, so many women in my family go through this and was their caretaker. And so I remember just looking at an oncologist and saying, do I have to reconstruct? Do I have to have breasts? Do I have to have boobs? Or can you just cut everything off? And that is where I started to get quite a bit of pushback. And I pushed back until I got my way and.
