I met with the surgeon today. I liked her and she explained everything most things I had heard already from my oncologist. She did say that most early breast cancers do well with lumpectomy and radiation. Because of my family history I chose not to go that route. In the end I have decided on a bilateral mastectomy. Part of my reasoning is probably because of my mom's experience and bad luck no way to know if she had the breast cancer genes she was not tested.

I do not want to have to go through worrying every time I have a yearly mammogram on the healthy breast. The waiting to get the results in the mail and waiting again to schedule things if it was suspicious. If something was found then I would be doing this all over again and would have regretted not doing what I could to try to prevent it. I chose not to have reconstruction. At my age (almost 63) I don't need it just another thing to deal with.

This is what I feel will give me and my family especially my son the most peace. I'm not sure my surgeon agrees but she did say she would support me in whatever my choice was.
My surgery will not be until sometime in mid March thinking around the week of the 6th-10th. I was surprised it will take that long. I don't like waiting even longer to let the cancer just sit there.