November 16, 2017 will be 2 years since my implants were inserted.
December will officially be 2 years of survivorship; for me it started in December 2015 when I received a letter telling me I was entering survivorship time. I technically didn’t finish surgeries until April 2016, and I stopped seeing an oncologist in August 2015, so I don’t really know why the letter came in December.
I was diagnosed with DCIS – Stage Zero – Was a doubleM too much? For some it may be too extreme, for me it wasn’t. There are many factors to consider;
Here are 5 things I found out after my double mastectomy that I never knew about. I practically lived on the Internets and consumed any breast reconstruction blogs I could find but never heard of any of these oddities.
Continue reading Things they don’t tell you when you have a mastectomy
7-7-16 One Year since I was pumped with radioactivity, had a double mastectomy operation, lymph node extraction, tissue expander implants, oodles of propofol, a bunch of gasses and a lot of narcotics! My first surgery of 3 in an 8 month time span (about 4+1+2 hours under general anesthesia).