Round 1 – Breast Cancer. To hear the words “YOU HAVE CANCER” has to be one of the hardest things you will go through. In a split second, your whole world changes. What am I going to do? How am I going to survive? How will my mom make it? I have been her main caregiver forever. How will I tell everybody? I feel nasty and I am so ashamed. I chose a double Mastectomy with the BIG chance that I would lose my nipples. My mom and her best friend were with me and said, “are you sure you want to do that? I said yes, take whatever is bad, take it all.”