I’m happy and relieved to know that Rafa will be able to come be with us for nearly 3 weeks. He already got plane tickets and will arrive on May 11th, just two days before the mastectomy. I’m still so nervous about this surgery (and the one next week). But it’ll be good to have my brother to help me through this.

I’m trying to count my blessings and focus on the good things in my life: 1) My kids and my family are healthy—I would never want something like this to happen to one of them; 2) I’m lucky I found this early enough that it’s only stage 2 and that I listened to my gut and did something about it; 3) I have amazing friends that make me feel so loved and supported and that make going through this so much more bearable; 4) I have a wonderful family and they remind me it’s worth trying to be positive, even if just for them.