Jane The Virgin Recap: Chapter Seventy Eight

Xo + Rogelio + Baby So we’re in the doctor’s and it is the worst — stage 3 cancer. I’m like YO dance may have saved this woman’s LIFE! It is a cancer that doesn’t show up well on scans and how would they even have known? The good news is it’s not in her lymph nodes, so mastectomy is the next phase. Xiomara has to decide whether she wants to remove both breasts or just remove the one. So good news but not great. In the meantime Xo is not letting anyone change their lives during this, she really doesn’t want Rogelio to push the shoot. You know he does anyways. First things first, Rogelio comes to Jane about not overwhelming Xo with facts and research at dinner. Then Xo is at dinner like “Where’s the binders?” Everyone thinks she should have a double mastectomy. Xo reluctantly agrees and they are scheduling the surgery! Omg. Ro suggests a spa day before the surgery, obviously for him and Xo, but she asks Jane to go… Ro’s face is so disappointed. When you really think about it, if my significant other was going into surgery I would want to spend as much time with them as possible, but under the circumstances, Rogelio just needs to do what Xo wants.

Xo’s Decision While at the spa, Xo really gets in her body and is like, I don’t want to give up my body! She decides she wants to try to hold on as long as possible and is going to do the lumpectomy. She is beside herself about her relationship with her body. This is where the writers at JTV excel. Someone out there said “what if …