Freaking out about Mastectomy
Hi Everyone, So, My surgery is booked for 27th March, which is next
Monday. I had no choice, Right mastectomy. The surgeon suggested immediate recon with air inflatable tissue
expander to be repl...
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Yes, great analogy @Bon Bon! Both my birth plans focussed on natural, drug-free deliveries with me visualising everything blossoming and opening up like a Georgia O'Keefe flower! But ah no....first was induced then an emergency Caesar and the second ended up being an elective Caesar because he never descended and his head was so big!!!! Turned out that whilst I (externally) appear to have great child-bearing hips, the internal part of my pelvis is small! Wtf?!
Anyway, back to the analogy - I recall attending a physio class at the hospital just after my first son was born and there was a woman in there who was so devastated that she'd had a caesarean and wasn't walking or doing anything other than just being terribly sad. I wished I could help her with her sorrow, but I couldn't. The only person I could help was ME and whilst I couldn't control what had happened (let's face it, if I'd tried to give birth in the Middle Ages, both my son and I would be dead!) but I could control how I responded to what had happened....so I got moving, I accepted that mine was a 'failed labour'(!) and embraced the beauty of being a new mum with a beautiful son.
I am so sorry to hear about what has happened over the past weeks to you but I know you will get through this and look back on it as part of your journey, with all the bumps and roadblocks - sending you big hugs, lots of positivity.
Nikki x
Anyway, back to the analogy - I recall attending a physio class at the hospital just after my first son was born and there was a woman in there who was so devastated that she'd had a caesarean and wasn't walking or doing anything other than just being terribly sad. I wished I could help her with her sorrow, but I couldn't. The only person I could help was ME and whilst I couldn't control what had happened (let's face it, if I'd tried to give birth in the Middle Ages, both my son and I would be dead!) but I could control how I responded to what had happened....so I got moving, I accepted that mine was a 'failed labour'(!) and embraced the beauty of being a new mum with a beautiful son.
I am so sorry to hear about what has happened over the past weeks to you but I know you will get through this and look back on it as part of your journey, with all the bumps and roadblocks - sending you big hugs, lots of positivity.
Nikki x