Unfortunately I am having a mastectomy this Friday after disappointing results from the pathology. So the past two weeks I have been healing and this week coming to grips that I have to do it all again. Nothing like standing in front of the mirror saying good bye to your boob! Nervous as but just taking one day at a time.
Hugs Mouse,
I was talking to my 'girls' as I waited in the fitting room to try on new (post-surgery) bras at DJs yesterday. Don't know how I'd feel if one or both had to go.... but they are so floppy now (recent rapid weight loss!) that I could almost tie em in a bow...
Just wondering, there are people who do belly casts of pregnant bellies - I wonder if anyone does boob casts??? LOL but serious too! I shall ask my friend Marika in Brisbane...
love and prayers, Anne
hi mouse,
yes, one day at a time is all you can do. it is ok to be nervous, but try and find some " calm " to each day, if only for a short time.
yes, i agree with leonie, take the time to grieve for the loss of your breast.
some seem to deal with it more easily than others, but i think we all, at some point feel the loss of our old life, and learning to adapt to the new.
i can only imagine how hard it would be to go back again and have a mastectomy, after recent lumpectomy.
will you have chemotherapy, radiation hormone therapy?
will you have a reconstruction? i had a lumpectomy, but i did grieve the loss of my breasts as they were. i am Ok with it now, but it did take time. i figured they had to do something to get rid of the BC.
i hope you have some people to fall back on for support, emotionally and physically at this time.
hope friday goes ok..kathy.
Why not take a photo of your boobs? They are yours so why not? I keep photos of my friends and animals who are not with me anymore. Go through the grieving process if you need to. I have not had a mastecomy but most of my friends have. My boobs just look like a crossword puzzle and my left breast "hangs out" under my left armpit most of the time!!!! If bc comes back into my life - and it isn't because "I AM FREE OF CANCER" both of my "girls" will be going on a "long-term holiday".. Yes just take one day at a time and very soon you will be HEALED AND HEALTHY!!!!!XLeonie
Why not take a photo of your boobs? They are yours so why not? I keep photos of my friends and animals who are not with me anymore. Go through the grieving process if you need to. I have not had a mastecomy but most of my friends have. My boobs just look like a crossword puzzle and my left breast "hangs out" under my left armpit most of the time!!!! If bc comes back into my life - and it isn't because "I AM FREE OF CANCER" both of my "girls" will be going on a "long-term holiday".. Yes just take one day at a time and very soon you will be HEALED AND HEALTHY!!!!!XLeonie
