At the end of 2022, I posted about being out on medical leave at the start of 2023. For the past six years I had mammograms or MRIs every six months, three stereotactic biopsies, and three surgical biopsies. Through these procedures, I was diagnosed with multiple pre-cancerous conditions, but it was after the discovery of lobular carcinoma in situ in September 2022 that I decided the watch-and-wait phase was over. I chose to move forward with a double mastectomy. Even though I knew it was the right choice, it wasn't an easy one.