Jaci Cobb:  

Life The Friday before Mother's Day this year,2005, I found out that I have breast cancer. I am dealing with it accoringly. I just wanted to let all you women out there who are celebrating their 11th anniversary of their 29th birthday to get in there and have a mammogram. I wasn't due to have one till the middle of the summer. well I am not really available then so I had it last month. I'm glad I didn't put it off till next winter when " I had the time " I would be dead. And I don't care if some of you would like that I don't think my kids would. Self breast exams are great but they have their limits. no one not even the surgeon could feel the lump. but it was there deep inside the center of the breast. There is a draw back to being hooteriferous. Don't ever think "It won't happen to me, "I have no history of breast cancer in my family. Anyone who knows me knows that " I will not go quietly into that dark night " someone famous said that, but I don't know who, I did go to LaPine you know. Live life like it's your last day. So now it is Christmas of 2006 and I'm still here. Wow! There was a few moments that I didn't think that would happen. I continued to work through my treatments. My Oncologist thought I was crazy. He told me when I started Chemo that I would have to cut back to half a day at work, I said eight hours? he said no a half day... I told him that is a half day. He said I would be so sick I wouldn't be able to pick my head up let alone work 16 hours a day i...Expand for more