Why I'm not having breast reconstruction
It’s one week since I found out I need a mastectomy. It feels like a month!Last Wednesday when my surgeon explained that the pathology on the surgery I’d had the week before revealed invasive cancer,...
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Thanks so much for all the positive feedback. It's what keeps me writing. That, and how much better I feel once I've put everything down. It orders my thinking.
Great to hear from Deanne and Robyn about your comfort with having only one. Curiously, that was a harder decision for me than reconstruction. After all, the right breast is the 'good' one! In the end I checked the results of my one year scan and noted that there had been some changes to the breast tissue as well as the appearance of some benign cysts. I know my surgeon says that the only way for cancer to spread to that breast is if the lymph from the other side is draining in that direction, but the radiation oncologist explained that we all have potenitally cancerous cells circulating our bodies all the time, so why wouldn't one of those lodge in the breast tissue, just as it did on the left hand side? So difficult when what's known about cancer, and triple neg, keeps being updated all the time.
Love to all of you and thank you so much for your kind wishes and sage advice.
Meg
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