Tag: mastectomy
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Sometimes It’s More Than a Feeling
The author decided on a double mastectomy after feeling spiritual unrest, leading to early detection of contained breast cancer. This choice spared them from chemotherapy and radiation.
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Good things
Preparing for a summer party with YMCA playing, the author reflects on overcoming challenges. Grateful for a recent mastectomy, they celebrate no infection signs, feeling relieved and thankful for timely intervention.
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Still Alive
Well, I’m still alive. It’s been one week since I went in for what was supposed to be more of a prophylactic double mastectomy with the reconstruction that I have been needing for like 5 years now. And I had the surgery done. Only it wasn’t exactly just the precaution and reconstruction that I had…
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An ugly 6 letter word
Cancer. What an ugly 6 letter word. One our family has been bombarded with for over 8 years now. First with our daughter, diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in 2011, then myself diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013 and then with thyroid cancer in 2014. Our daughter then relapsed in 2015 and then relapsed again…