"New Again!"

Almost two months now since I finished up with radiation.  I am still having my Herceptin infusions, three weeks apart and as I said before, I will have these for a full year, hopefully finishing up in July of this year.  I am scheduled for another heart echo gram on April 2nd, just to make sure the Herceptin hasn't messed with the "old ticker". Most of you are aware that my diagnosis was  HR2 positive Breast Cancer in my right breast, with a very rare breast disease called Paget's Disease in my nipple, whereupon, treatment followed with: a radical mastectomy with 14 lymph nodes removed in which 5 of those showed disease, 6 months of Chemo and 35 days of radiation.  Upon my 3 month visit to my oncologist,  I asked the question which had been tugging at me since diagnosis, "If my insurance will  pay, how do you feel about me requesting that you remove my "sister breast?" (as I like to refer) To my amazement, I received a positive answer and the wheels of motion began for inquiry with my insurance company.  It wasn't far into the week that I received a phone call from my doctor, informing me that the insurance would pay and I could set up a date for surgery at my liking... Thinking on when might be the most convenient time for me to have this done, my reasoning ended up with "no convenient" time.  Therefore, I have chosen June 1st.  I will  relay my decision back to the doctor at my next appointment in April.  Telling family and friends about my decision, I have been met with "why on earth would you want to go through that mess all over again"? to "I don't blame you!" to "I hope you know what you're doing!"  I can tell you this, once you've been through the above, and there is the slightest chance of it happening again, you don't want to hesitate.  I know that some women feel different about all that, and I respect their feelings, but for me, I choose to hang up the "old harness" forever.  I'm 60 years old now, feel at peace with my body and spirit, and know that my breast will never define me.  I am so very blessed to be comforted by a living God who knows all of my pluses and minuses.  One day, at His choosing I will leave this ole earth...and make my way to His Heavenly Home, and then and only then,  my body will be "new again!"