I sat at work lacking any form of concentration, and the minutes felt like hours. Deep down I knew something was wrong, but I didn't want to accept it.

My phone rang and reality set in: it was my oncologist with the biopsy results. "No hay forma facil de decirte esto, el tumor es maligno,” he said. I had stage II breast cancer.

If you asked me what else my doctor said on that phone call, I wouldn't be able to tell you...