Melissa Brumbelow has written a wonderful book about all her experiences from when she was told she had breast cancer in March of 2009, up until she had her final procedure. She has now begun her website, Perky Mutant, where she shares her experiences for everyone who was just diagnosed, already under care and those that know and love anyone with this debilitating disease.
Imagine you are 28 years old, rocking a sexy new business suit from work, heading to meet your studly husband as soon as the next appointment for the day is over for date night, and you're as healthy as a horse. That next appointment is the annual visit to the OB-GYN. Every woman just loves that yearly check-up. Y'all know the one I'm talking about - the one that includes stirrups, cattle prods, branding iron hot flashes, and what was once round is squished flatter than a pancake.
The above quote is how Melissa describes her first of many visits to her I love My OB-GYN All to Pieces doctor, and for her Oncologists; Honey Doc and Gospel Doc. She has "special" names for all of the wonderful people that helped her throughout this ideal that includes family and friends. Melissa describes her OB-GYN as the person who straps you to a table, places your feet high in stirrups, and uses tools on your body you would otherwise consider kinky.
Melissa goes on to describe how she came up with the name Perky Mutant, and if you read what's on the website, you'll certainly understand the reasoning behind this. You'll also discover ways in which she tried to overcome all of the procedures she went through. You'll also discover why she did what she did without having much choice in the matter - either have the procedure or die in two months!
Melissa underwent a new test called the BRCAnalysis Test (bra-ka), specifically for women with a lot of cancer in their families. Now, if you call having seventeen cases of cancer in the immediate family a high percentage, you'd be correct. After all of the bloodletting, her OB-GYN called telling me she wanted to give her the results which, weren't good. She tested 87 percent positive for breast cancer and 44 percent positive for ovarian cancer. She just wasn't ready to hear numbers that were that ginormous!
As you can imagine, now that Melissa is "perky" again, she's riding high and doing everything she possibly can to make other women aware of what she went through, and is speaking publicly wherever and whenever she can about her encounter with breast cancer. If you would like to read more about her experience, and more importantly about a breast cancer survivor, I highly recommend that you visit Perky Mutant.
This site contains much of her personal insight and history, and reads like a diary in parts, to help anyone with cope with this disease and we sincerely hope that you will gain worthwhile information for use in your personal life.
I have written this article because I feel that anyone that has been diagnosed with breast cancer, or knows anyone that has, visit this web site to learn what this wonderful lady has gone through over the course of two years. From early diagnosis all the way through surgery and reconstructive surgeries. It's a wonderful insight and you're sure to learn something from all of this.
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