What happened to me is not unusual – not just the cancer (one in eight women will get breast cancer over the course of her life), but also that I had known for months that something wasn’t right in my body. I didn’t know what it was. I actually felt fine in a medical sense, yet I knew something was off. When friends would ask how I was doing, and I’d say, “I know this sounds strange: I’m fine, but I think I’m not. I have this sense that something’s going on inside me.”

As it turns out, this isn’t that uncommon. Actress Rita Wilson, recently on the other side of her own bout with breast cancer, said she knew something was wrong even though her test results said she was fine. She got a second opinion: it validated her instincts and found the cancer in time for her to receive treatment and a good prognosis. (I shudder to think what would have happened if she didn’t trust her gut and schedule that second visit.) Continue reading →

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