Breast reconstruction is another kind of long and winding road alright. The topic of this post is nipple reconstruction. There, I said it. Addressing this topic feels even more personal than just talking about breasts, and sometimes I wonder why this is. Why is it so hard to blog about, or even to say the …
Reconstruction
I’m not at a good place. I admit it. I wasn’t even going to write this post, but I changed my mind and decided why hold back now? So, let me tell you about another hurdle. I feel like I’m sitting poolside, but the pool I am sitting by this time is the one called …
Last week I had my first follow-up appointment with my oncologist. A weird way to look at it is if I’m really lucky, it will be the first of many. While I did experience familiar nervous moments of apprehension and anxiety before entering the now all too familiar hospital/clinic, I was struck by how calm …
Usually I don’t post updates right away following my own appointments or procedures. Generally, I prefer to write retrospectively; I seem to have better insights further out from such things. And photos, forget about it. However, for some reason, I decided to change things up today and let everyone know how my surgery went last week, …
December has arrived bringing more frigid temperatures, all of the holiday decorations and the making of to-do lists that seem to grow longer each day instead of shorter. This December is unlike any previous one for obvious reasons; one being it is now six months since my bilateral mastectomy last June 2. Now six months …