Julie can't eat cheese

I finally met my surgeon on 10/19. I’d been reading through all the documents my nurse case manager sent, I had a note book and was ready with questions! I was in the appointment for about an hour. We talked about a few scenarios as I was still waiting on the genetic testing results. He…

Invasive ductal carcinoma. After I read that and the other parts of the pathology report, I gave my phone to Dan, asking what does it mean?! When the text came in, I was getting ready to go to P’s school for an event and had to leave. Right after I got there, the nurse called…

Everything started when I was in Sedona with friends. Our fancy hotel only had 2 washcloths in the bathroom. Someone had used one and I didn’t want to use the last one so decided to hand wash instead of calling and waiting for more. We’d been hiking and I use natural deodorant (which means I…

Me: “I think I blacked out for a minute. Can you repeat that?” My surgeon: “You cannot eat dairy anymore. I recommend a plant based diet.” [cue internal screaming and missing again all the reasons why] I may have had a bigger reaction to learning I needed to go plant based than to my actual…