[Margerie]

After I told my MIL that I had bc and was going to have a mastectomy in a couple of days and then chemo, she said "Do you have to have a mastectomy? Or are there too many tumors? Because I was a nurse and all the mastectomy patients were in HORRIBLE pain for weeks." I went on to say the only bright side to mastectomy was I probably wouldn't need radiation (little did I know, I had a wad of + nodes) and she said "Well, that is good because if you have radiation, your hair will fall out and that will be just AWFUL!"

She never once asked how I was doing.