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Eyelashes and surgery
It's such a stupid little thing but I am so cross with my surgical team. Somewhere on breast surgeon Liz O'Riordan's blog she wrote that having breast cancer taught her the importance of how much t...
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Oh no @k@kmakm it is so the little things that just get u so upset isn’t it - especially upsetting when u kept them through chemo and then u literally have them ripped out of u by abit of tape. I mentioned mine to my anaesthetist at the second surgery as I had false eyelashes at the time and it seemed like it was going to be hard to tape without damaging the eyelashes but she somehow managed to do it. I just googled about growth time and got anywhere from 3 weeks to 9 months. For me personally apart from the hair loss the thing I have hated the most is losing some of my strength and not being able to go for a run - I just feel like I have aged so much. Hopefully when all this is over I will start to regain that as long as tamoxifen doesn’t to something crazy to me. Big hugs xoxoxo