Tag: breastreconstruction
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New Haircut, Who Dis?
Geez. It’s been almost two months since my last update. What a slacker I am. To be fair, it’s been two very busy months and I’ve napped a lot (with good reason). I’m all healed up from my knee surgery in August and physical therapy has been going well. It feels a little bit like…
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Your True Village
You always hear about this magical “village” that appears in times of need, whether the need arises from death, divorce, sickness, or the throes of early parenthood. What you don’t hear about is the isolation that can follow if your particular need goes on for “too long.” Every person I’ve met that is also fighting…
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Can’t Keep A Warrior Down
There never seems to be a dull moment in my life these days, but I guess when you’re fighting for your life against an enemy you can’t see, it makes sense. These less than dull moments just seem harder when I’m homesick. We’ve already rescheduled flights home once. It appears we may have to do…
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Happy Wife, Happy Life
As of yesterday, all my drains are out and I’m feeling much less uncomfortable! And, even better than that, my sarcoma surgeon shared the pathology results from the mastectomy: NEGATIVE MARGINS! She was able to remove any cancer that remained. A small tumor remained from my original lumpectomy in September. The “post-surgical changes” everyone was…
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Phase 3: COMPLETE
Hello everyone! I’m sorry I haven’t updated you all sooner. I’ve been doing a lot of sleeping. The surgery went very well. The surgeons were able to complete the mastectomy as well as the reconstruction. Results from pathology will take about a week to come back. The plastic surgeon decided not to perform the reduction…
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Phase 3
Today is surgery day! The plan has changed a bit. Due to changes from radiation, my surgeon would prefer to only do the mastectomy and reconstruction and wait to operate on the other breast. She thinks the results will be better in the long run. This does, however, mean that another surgery is in my…
Spontaneous Sunshine 