Really struggling with needing mastectomy
I have really been agonising over needing a mastectomy. I just feel horrified that they want to cut my breasts off and wonder how I will accept and deal with lookiing down to see no breasts. I have...
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Oh I hear you re the mastectomy! I was diagnosed with TNBC 3 months ago and I remember preparing myself mentally thinking ok I got this, a lumpectomy, chemo I can do that. At my first appointment my surgeon goes… mastectomy… double mastectomy 😂.
I remember thinking no way, that’s just not cool. It feels like an amputation. Turns out lumpectomy on tiny size A fillets like mine means a mastectomy more or less.
I have made peace with the fact that I am choosing a double mastectomy. Chemotherapy is absolute crap and I do not want to have to go through this again if I can help it. In other words even if I have the teeniest chance of getting it all out right now (even dormant cells in the other breast) I want to take it.
I never identified much with my breasts so it’s been easier I guess to let go of them in hindsight. But maybe thinking about what you are gaining rather than losing might be a good place to start. I’m sure you know that but I totally get your resistance ♥️🙏