40 days later I woke up with armpit pain. So I finally decided to do an e-visit for the “peace of mind” my mom originally recommended to me. The doctor I chatted with promptly told me to come in and see a primary care provider that day. So I went and got checked out. But the doctor was never suspicious (verbally) to me that it was cancer. The mass was large and I’m so young. We aren't talking about the stereotypical pea sized lump that's commonly talked about with breast cancer. My mass was wider than a credit card. It's been said there is less than a 1% chance of getting breast cancer as a women under the age of 30. Regardless the primary care provider requested for an ultrasound of my breast and armpit and just to be safe, a mammogram.

I went in the next day - Thursday, February 18th.

And my whole world kind of flipped upside down. I went from being denied a mammogram - they literally laughed at me when I checked in and said even the ultrasound wasn't going to show much since I was too young - to having my radiologist walk in during the ultrasound that I pushed to have and she took one look at the screen and ordered me a mammogram, STAT, before I was even off the exam table.

I knew then that whatever she saw wasn’t great.

After many many “pictures” or scans of my breasts they had me get dressed and walk to another room to speak with a doctor right away. When she walked in I could see on her face that what she was about to say was not good news…