Hi again Laura - Welcome back. In my opinion, given your diagnosis, a skin-sparing mastectomy sounds like the ideal treatment. Has a surgeon talked to you about reconstruction options? Now's the timeyou shoould discuss that, too.

With two masses, and an MRI showing the potential of more, I'm sure your oncoloogist is playing it safe and saying there's little chance of getting clean margins, and you should go the masstectomy route. While this sounds devastating, it's actually as "awful" as you make it. You can believe it's the worst thing that ever happened to you. Or you can accept it, realize it's part of a life-saving treatment, and move on. As I said, cosmetically, you can actually have a really good outcome.

As for alternative treatment (wheat grass and herbs), be sure to tell your doctor what you're doing, just so he doesn't prescribe anything that may cause a reaction. And (my opinion) alternative treatments shouldn't ever substitute for what the doc recommends. Complement... but not substitute.

Laura, you're going along a path very similar to my own. All I can say is, I did fine. I'm healthy. Millions of women can make the same claim. I hope you'll be part of that group a year or so from now, when you've finished treatment. Good luck - PJH