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Posted by Linda T
on 8/31/2005, 10:20 am
24.29.7.156
Who Would of Thought?! Who would know I would be celebrating the 1st anniversary of "The Mamogram That Changed My Life"!......one year ago yesterday, August 30, I went for my routine visit of smash and squish. I went on vacation with my family and returned home Sept 20th to several messages from my Doctor and from the mamography center. Return mamograms, sonograms, stereotatic needle biopsis....Oct. 18 my breast surgeon called and gave me the news I already knew in my heart. DCIS, both breast, recommeded a duel Mastectomy. Wow. I found myself at the plastic surgeons office within days. It was so strange hearing him talking about restoring me, so surreal! Surgery was Dec. 9. Drains for a month, yech! I went from a 36G/H to a 36A in a day! It was like going through puberty all over again! Visits to have fills in the expanders every three weeks filled my winter. Comfortable...tight...comfortable...tight...Then May 17, I had the switchout surgery for the new implants. (I am now a 36D...a new me!) I have healed well, have the normal loss of feeling from the node disection, have had the nipple reconstruction, just waiting to finish healing for the finishing touches. It doesn't seem real at times, then I look down and know it hasn't been a dream. Through it all I have been very blessed. My team of Doctors have been great! My family, so supportive! I have learned so much about myself, what I can endure, what I believe, how precious life is and how important the research for Breast Cancer is! I am a result of early detection! I wish I could thank every person that has had a hand in futhering the knowledge and research that has brought medicine closer to a cure for Breast cancer! I would also like to thank every woman that responded to my posts on the surgery board this year. It has been a wonderful source of information and support! I only hope I can be of some help to others that are facing the news that breast cancer is in their life. Together we will get through it!
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