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Fighting like a girl for my life!

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When you have no other options but to fight for your life. Before Cancer Where it all began: Late last year I was diagnosed with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma after feeling a pea sized lump in my left breast. I went in three months later and had a mammogram to confirm my ultrasound performed the day before. The thought of cancer is scary, especially when you just watched your grandmother not even 3 months prior slowly die from secondary brain cancer. Holding her hand through that experience and her not remembering who you are or who her children are was devastating and life changing. All I could really think about was when you have no other options but to fight for your life. Right before surgery to remove my cancer Where I am now: The depression has deepened and thoughts of me dying have shook me to the core. My children need me, they need their mother to be strong and fight for them. I also need to fight for myself. No one wants cancer, no one wants to induce pain to their bodies tha...