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Current Mood: Alarmed

I’ve recently entered into the world of reading other womens blogs. It all started with a few of my MOMS Club friends, and now I read about women/moms from all over. It helps bring a little more sanity into my life realizing that I’m not the only one out there going through some of the things that occur in our household. Recently I read a post about a mom diagnosed with breast cancer, and it struch me to the core especially since my Aunt was recently diagnosed with it as well….however this was different, this women didn’t have a lump. Her breast had changed and she found out through several different tests that she had Inflammatory Breast Cancer. It is often misdiagnosed as mastitis because many doctors have never seen it before and consider it rare. “Rare” or not, there are over 100,000 women in the U.S. with this cancer right now; only half will survive five years. Please call your OB/GYN if you experience several of the following symptoms in your breast, or any unusual changes: redness, rapid increase in size of one breast, persistent itching of breast or nipple, thickening of breast tissue, stabbing pain, soreness, swelling under the arm, dimpling or ridging (for example, when you take your bra off, the bra marks stay – for a while), flattening or retracting of the nipple, or a texture that looks or feels like an orange (called peau d’orange). Ask if your GYN is familiar with inflammatory breast cancer, and tell her that you’re concerned and want to come in to rule it out.

Feel free to read Toddler Planet’s blog to learn more. It’s made me think to not take things for granted about my health. So many times I push things aside because I think they are stress related……and I can fix them by not being so stressed. It’s however easier said than done. All of you women out there please repost Toddler Planet’s blog, as the more women we inform the better!