{"id":15702,"date":"2019-11-20T22:03:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T22:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=288299"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:52","slug":"mom-discovers-she-has-breast-cancer-after-weaning-twin-boys-says-they-saved-her-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/mom-discovers-she-has-breast-cancer-after-weaning-twin-boys-says-they-saved-her-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom Discovers She Has Breast Cancer After Weaning Twin Boys, Says They Saved Her Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

A young mom was diagnosed with breast cancer just months after giving birth to twin boys. She credits them with the discovery of her breast cancer.<\/span>\u201cThey saved my life,\u201d she said<\/a>.<\/span>After Amber Lewis weaned her two beautiful twin babies, she noticed something odd in her breast.<\/span>\u201cI had just finished breastfeeding a couple of months before. I was just in the shower and noticed something wasn\u2019t right. I kind of chalked it up to a clogged milk duct and went to my doctor just to make sure everything was okay,\u201d Lewis said.<\/span>Her doctor ran some tests. Soon enough, Lewis got the shocking news that she had stage III breast cancer. She went through chemo and radiation.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/WBIR<\/span>
\n<\/span>She also found out that she had the BRCA II gene mutation.<\/span>That finding surprised her. She had a history of breast cancer in the family, but it was her paternal grandmother (her dad\u2019s mom), and doctors had always dismissed it as not important enough to increase her risk for breast cancer.<\/span>But that\u2019s who she got the gene mutation from. And the gene is what triggered her cancer.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/WBIR<\/span>\u201cEvery time I would tell a doctor when they would ask for family history, I would say my paternal grandmother [had breast cancer]. They would say, \u2018It\u2019s okay. No big deal,\u2019 and that\u2019s exactly where it came from,\u201d Lewis said.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Lewis\u2019 sister has the BRCA2 gene mutation as well \u2014 something she wouldn\u2019t have known if Lewis hadn\u2019t been diagnosed. Her sister has undergone a preventative mastectomy to lower her chances of getting breast cancer.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/WBIR<\/span>The treatment was a lot for Lewis to juggle, especially while caring for infant twins, but she had a lot of people willing to pitch in and help make things a little easier for her.<\/span>\u201cIt was almost a blur sometimes,\u201d she said. \u201cYou\u2019re just getting over being sleep-deprived, caring for two. Then, you get this put on your plate, and it\u2019s a lot to handle. Thankfully, we have an amazing support system of friends and family. Everyone rallied around us and helped care for me and our babies.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/WBIR<\/span>Lewis has some advice for other men and women so that they aren\u2019t as surprised as she was about the fact that all<\/strong> of her family history matters.<\/span>\u201cKnow your family history, both sides of the family. It doesn\u2019t matter. You should know where you stand with this.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/WBIR<\/span>Lewis is cancer-free and enjoying raising her two toddler boys.<\/span>Learn more in this video.<\/span>Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A young mom was diagnosed with breast cancer just months after giving birth to twin boys. She credits them with the discovery of her breast cancer.\u201cThey saved my life,\u201d she said.After Amber Lewis weaned her two beautiful twin babies, she noticed something odd in her breast.\u201cI had just finished breastfeeding a couple of months before. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44388,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15702\/revisions\/44388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}