I never really thought about how much needs to be done prior to things like surgery, especially surgeries that require a lot of recovery time. The surgery was just the beginning of the whole terrible process. So I focused on doing things that were in my control. One of my most time consuming responsibilities is […]
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All of the big decisions had been made. I was going to have a bilateral mastectomy and immediately have reconstructive surgery. I’d only have to go under anesthesia once, so essentially we were killing two birds with one stone (Is that even a saying anymore?). After you’ve made all the choices, you then have to
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August 17th, 2024 I’m not going to lie, one of the very first things I thought of after I got my breast cancer diagnosis was the reality that I was going to lose my hair. I knew that there were some variations of chemo that didn’t cause hair loss, but it wasn’t likely that I
