Two weeks after mastectomy surgery, I went to bed feeling somewhat dizzy. I woke up at 2 am and felt as if I was having a heart attack as I had pain radiating up and down my left arm. I struggled to the bathroom but quickly passed out. I was able to regain...
One doesn’t have time to deal with the reality of no breasts when unbearable pain is the sole focus. The morning after my surgery, the pain on the right side of my chest was so severe I could hardly breathe, and constant, with no reprieve, as if an arrow had been...
My mastectomy was scheduled bright and early on an extremely warm Tuesday morning in Florida, June 2009. I remember lying in bed at the hospital before surgery missing my mom. Of course those who don’t know me personally, would not know my mom died in a car accident...
Immediately after hearing those words, “You have breast cancer,” you are introduced to physicians you never really wanted to meet. Besides the general surgeon who will be taking the cancer out of your body, you are introduced to an oncologist who discusses placing...
