Breast Cancer

“Breast cancer changes you, and the change can be beautiful.” – Jane Cook

Emotional Recovery

Today might be day 1 of my emotional recovery. Everything has gone so much better than I could have ever expected. My pain is pretty much not even there. I had no nausea from the anesthesia or from the medications I was prescribed. My sentinel nodes were clear. Really it has been the best possible

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Lookin Good!

Good morning! We went to my appointment with the plastic surgeon, and he said everything looks good. There is some bruising on my skin, so they weren’t able to do the first fill today into the tissue expanders. He did prescribe a nitro glycerine cream that I’ll need to put a thin layer of each

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Day 3

Day 3 and I am still feeling pretty good! A weird development out of all of this is that one of my medications causes blurred vision for things up close. I can see perfectly fine for things further away. Thanks Terri for giving me some reading glasses so that I can see my phone and my book!

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Pre-OP

Good morning! Patrick and I are headed to Newnan for a day full of Pre-op appointments for the surgery tomorrow. The nerves are starting to set in regarding the surgery, but I know that everything is going to go well. I am just so ready to be on the other side of this. I feel like

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