On June 14, 2022, Kimmi Scott was at home watching the NBA finals with her husband Maurice when she naturally ran her hand along her right breast and noticed a lump. Knowing that she had her annual exam in December, the Love & Marriage: Huntsville star admits she didn’t think much of the lump.
However, as a registered nurse, she knew she needed to give herself a more thorough self exam.
“As a nurse I was like, ‘Eh, maybe I should check further.’ So I started looking under my right arm, my left breast and under my left arm. And I found a second lump under my right arm,” she recalls. “So that was probably when I actually started getting really worried because I understand as a clinician that once cancer sometimes gets into your lymph nodes, that’s kind of the highway to the rest of your body.”
Scott immediately scheduled a doctor’s visit and received a mammogram on June …