<?xml version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Kathy Cal's Journal RSS Feed</title><link>http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/mynbcf/members/kathy-cal/journals/rss</link><description>Kathy Cal's Journal RSS Feed</description><item><title><![CDATA[Here's my story]]></title><link>http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/mynbcf/members/kathy-cal/journals/8060</link><guid>http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/mynbcf/members/kathy-cal/journals/8060</guid><description><![CDATA[In August of 2007 I went for my yearly exam - all was good and clear.  September 2007 my husband felt a small lump in my left breast.  I was so busy at work and thought it was a cyst because I thought I was too young to have cancer.  By the time I got to to the Dr. in November of 2007, the lump had quadrupled on size.  I started chemo treatments in December of 2007, finished them in March of 2008 and just last week underwent a modified radical mastectomy where they removed a 5 cm tumor that the months of chemo treatments did not even affect.  Hair loss, weight gain, chemical menopause and now facing 6 weeks of radiation.  This is the very first time I have told my story.  This is the first website I have joined.  I have been reluctant to reach out because I just still can't accept that I have this disease and setting up a profile and putting this down in black and white makes it real and not a terrible dream. 

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