How it began

On Sunday evening, January 2, 2011, I was undressing for bed and stretched and at the same time went to scratch my left breast. My fingers ran across a large hard lump in my legft breast which I had never felt before. I called my husband in to see if it was just my imagination ... it wasn't. I have mamograms anually and had just had one in October, just 3 months prior. I planned to call my gyn and go in to have it checked. The next night I noticed that under my left arm was very sore and that if I tried to put my arm tight to my side, it felt as if I had a marble in my armpit. I knew this was a lymph node and this was not a good sign. I went to the gynocolgist on January 6th, had a mamo and sonogram on January 11th, a biopsy on January 17th and received a call from the breast surgeon on January 20th, that the results were back and I definitely had breast cancer. WHOOA, my head was spinning.