Case of the sads before mastectomy
Hi everyone. Am about to have a mastectomy and reconstruction this Friday. DCIS everywhere is seems. Two failed lumpectomies so mastectomy it is. I have finally been crying my eyes out yesterday and t...
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Totally normal to have a case of the sads before mastectomy.
I am not a cry baby but never cried so much in my life as I did after my diagnosis.
You have come to the right place here as we have all been on the “journey.”
I had a left mastectomy in October last year and it was a whirlwind from initially feeling the lump to going under the knife.
I was an E cup so had a lot of boob to lose, I had a reduction in the other breast but have now decided to have a prophylactic mastectomy of the other one and and having DIEP flap surgery in a couple of weeks and will be a C cup.
amongst all the doom and gloom and emotion ( in my case hysteria) there is a lot of good stuff too , we are in a medical system not overrun by Covid 19, you will get great care whether you are in the public or private system, and breast cancer has a really good prognosis compared to many other cancers.
There a lot of good resources on this website and on this forum NO question is ever deemed” silly”.
I am not a cry baby but never cried so much in my life as I did after my diagnosis.
You have come to the right place here as we have all been on the “journey.”
I had a left mastectomy in October last year and it was a whirlwind from initially feeling the lump to going under the knife.
I was an E cup so had a lot of boob to lose, I had a reduction in the other breast but have now decided to have a prophylactic mastectomy of the other one and and having DIEP flap surgery in a couple of weeks and will be a C cup.
amongst all the doom and gloom and emotion ( in my case hysteria) there is a lot of good stuff too , we are in a medical system not overrun by Covid 19, you will get great care whether you are in the public or private system, and breast cancer has a really good prognosis compared to many other cancers.
There a lot of good resources on this website and on this forum NO question is ever deemed” silly”.