Erica's Breast Cancer Diagnosis
The Girl Next Door Podcast
Kelsey Wharton
4.8 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Well that's the worst episode title we've ever had. As you can see, we have a hard episode today, friends, and tissues are required. Erica is sharing details about her recent breast cancer diagnosis, what she knows so far, and how she's doing.
Thanks for being here with us, and most importantly, please schedule a mammogram for yourself if you're old enough for one or if your doctor recommends one. Here are the CDC recommendations for breast cancer screening.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Kelsey. And I'm Erica. In every episode, we bring our different perspectives to honest, funny conversations that feel like chatting with good friends. |
| 0:13.6 | We started this show years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of things to talk and laugh about yet. |
| 0:20.6 | Okay, friends, today's episode is a tough one. |
| 0:24.2 | Erica has some hard news to share and wants to bring all of you as our wonderful listener |
| 0:28.6 | community up to speed. |
| 0:30.1 | So I'm going to just let her start off by telling us what's been going on with her |
| 0:34.0 | lately and what she's learned in the past couple of weeks. |
| 0:37.1 | Okay. Well, this is |
| 0:38.9 | still hard for me to say out loud, but I was recently diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. |
| 0:45.9 | That was October 12th, I believe, when I found out. I'm going to give you kind of a short version |
| 0:53.0 | of how we got here and what the |
| 0:55.6 | plan is. I had no signs of breast cancer. I went in for an initial mammogram. I had never even |
| 1:02.5 | had a mammogram before. My doctor said the newest recommendations were to start at 43 because of |
| 1:08.6 | breast density and stuff like that. I have zero family history and went in for my initial mammogram and I was being a big |
| 1:14.6 | weenie just about that. |
| 1:16.0 | If I only knew what was in my future, that would not have seemed so hard. |
| 1:19.5 | But I was proud of myself for doing that and still am because I caught something. |
| 1:25.5 | And so they called me in for more imaging a couple weeks later. There was a mass on both sides that they were concerned about. I got a biopsy on those two spots October 10th. And the spot on the right side came back malignant October 12th. So I have invasive ductal carcinoma, |
| 1:47.2 | which is a fancy word for breast cancer |
| 1:50.2 | in the milk making factory of the breast. |
| 1:52.3 | That's where it starts usually. |
| 1:54.0 | This is a time of learning. |
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