Nat wants to cut off her boobs for no reason
Ok I'm back with another sticky situation Nat has gone 3 years with no reoccurrence but she has had major anxiety about cancer coming back, every twinge has been scanned and it's all come back all cle...
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I guess it's her body and her choice as hard as that is as a mother to accept. I totally understand it. My cancer wasn't detected in a mammogram 5 weeks before I found a lump. With my surgeon and family history the decision was for a bilateral mastectomy. Without it I would always fear a new primary or local recurrence could be happening and it would go undetected until it's too late. A bilateral mastectomy though doesn't prevent metastatic breast cancer occurring from her original cancer. As long as she understands this.
I didn't carry my father's side faulty gene. But my sister and her dsughter have both had breast cancer so our family is mapped. They described us "as yet unidentified gene" As no current known cancer I haven't gone on to remove other girlie bits. My fathers side also had ovarian cancer, I was relieved to not have that gene.
I will always miss my breasts but don't regret the surgery.
It's fairly normal to worry about all niggles and aches. If however it sucks the joy out if her life she may do well with some counselling to help her work through that. Kath x
I didn't carry my father's side faulty gene. But my sister and her dsughter have both had breast cancer so our family is mapped. They described us "as yet unidentified gene" As no current known cancer I haven't gone on to remove other girlie bits. My fathers side also had ovarian cancer, I was relieved to not have that gene.
I will always miss my breasts but don't regret the surgery.
It's fairly normal to worry about all niggles and aches. If however it sucks the joy out if her life she may do well with some counselling to help her work through that. Kath x