I hope the surgery and recovery goes well. I hated the drain, that gave me more grief than the wound site. I am still to cry about losing my right boob as to me I now look normal. My mum and my aunt both lost a breast and then their lives to BC, so to me this is just another success/step in my fight against cancer. I could have had a lumpectomy but got the breast off, as far as I was concerned it was trying to kill me. Good riddance to it. We are all different and I hope in time you can see a breast doesn't define you, all great fighters have scars.