To Tell or Not To Tell

I am a sharer. I talk and I tell but since I got the bad news about the shadow I have not shared my concerns because I had hoped it would be nothing like 80% of the cases are. Go with the majority, I figured. This time I was in the minority. So I told a few people, then a few more, now I am sharing with a lot more. Why?

For one, I feel like I am the poster adult for annual mammograms. If I hadn’t gone to the same place before so they could compare, the small shadow might have been missed. So if any women haven’t made their annual appointments yet, stop reading and do it NOW.

Also, when I was eight years old, my maternal grandmother had breast cancer when no one discussed (shhh) cancer. It wasn’t mentioned and when my mother explained why my grandmother was so sick and I told my big mouth 9 year old cousin who then told her mother, I got in trouble for telling her since her mother told my mother. Of course, I never told that cousin anything ever again. So now when I have breast cancer, I want to be open and discuss it. It’s a disease, not a curse or something I am ashamed of.  I am open to talking about it and getting rid of it asap!!