My name is Samantha and Im a mother of 2 amazing kids. I separated from my husband in October of 2024. At the beginning of 2025 I was diagnosed with the beginnin stage  congestive heart failure. I started to work on my health to make sure I would be here for my children for as long as I could. In October of 2025 I had a mammogram. They tell you they'll have your results in 3 to 4 days the doctor called me 2 hours after I finished my mammogram telling me that I need to be checked right away with the diagnostic mammogram and an ultrasound. Naturally it made me nervous but I called the doctor had him order the new testing for me. Dinner testing showed that I had deductal carcinoma stage zero just forming in both breasts. Doctor tells me we can go and remove it out of both breasts no chemo no radiation I'll be done I won't need to do anything else. On December 18th I had the procedure done everything went great no issues the day after Christmas my doctor calls me and tells me that during the surgery he cut a little too much tissue but it was that little extra sliver of tissue showed that I had hers too invasive deductible carcinoma stage 2 and my left breast and that will require chemo radiation in a bilateral mastectomy that's not an option. They noticed something in one of my skins and my left lymph node as well we biopsied it cancer as well. My chemotherapy doctor called to apologize because now that we know my lymph node is cancer the chemotherapy he has to use on me is going to be very hard after chemotherapy I'll have the mastectomy and after I heal from that  I'll have my radiation as long as the chemotherapy responds well. Unfortunately this isn't your standard chemotherapy mastectomy radiation being that I have congestive heart failure we have to make sure that my heart can even handle all of this treatment and if it can't I don't know where I go from there. No matter what this journey brings for me I can't give up my children have lost my father their grandfather and their dad's dad both taken by cancer and I can't give up I can't let my kids lose me too.