I was 35, and on an assignment for work when I developed a rosy color in my right breast. I was worried and decided to have it checked out at my regular GYN appointment when I got home a few months later.

My story begins in the fall of 2012, when I was 37 years old.  I was in my 15th year as a high school band director, had a 3 year old daughter, and was trying to get pregnant with our second child.  I began having severe pain in my left breast and, after a month or so of waiting to see if it cleared up with my menstrual cycle, I discovered a hard knot.