So I’m still knitting. Socks. Arm of Mom’s dress. And hats.
I made a lot of hats last year. Mostly for myself. Some for others.
This year I decided to cope with Pinktober by making hats for some of the new girls (and old girls) over at the YSC.
This hat is for a 29 year old. Who was just diagnosed with a recurrence. She already went through this once when she was 26. 26!
I guess if there’s anything to take with you as October progresses, it’s that young women can and do get breast cancer. When it comes down to it, it’s not about ribbons, fundraisers and charitable donations (though they are nice and helpful). It’s about women being disfigured in a way that’s incomprehensible until it happens to you. It’s about facing issues with fertility after diagnosis and treatment. About the possibility of leaving our loved ones behind too soon. Our tumors are measured in centimeters (the average breast cancer tumor of someone over 50 is measured in millimeters.) It’s a very different disease from breast cancer in older women. So go check ‘em out. Stay healthy. 
wow. I didn’t realise that about the centimetre/millimetre thing. mine was 11mm. I’m middling, you see, I was 43. Still youngish.
Hope you make some lovely hats!
I was diagnosed last year at 55 with a 5.9 cm mass. Why do they do it differently for different age groups, I do not see the difference.
I knit scarves, but I wish I could knit hats, you make some lovely ones.
About the cm/mm thing, I guess the point I was trying to make was that most younger tumors are larger, due to a more aggressive nature of the tumor and fewer early detections because of fewer baseline mammograms. I probably should have stated as such in the post.
As with everything, there are always exceptions. And thanks for the compliments on the hats! 
7 cm mass here when diagnosed at age 38.