Tags: reconstruction

• Afraid to dive….

  July 27th will mark one year since my bilateral mastectomies.  I am still going thru reconstruction.  I have taken a couple months off all of it to sort of “adjust” and determine how I really feel about the “new me” before continuing onto revisions and nipple reconstruction, and also allow myself emotional healing time.  Taking this time was a good choice for me.
  I am still not thrilled with the new me.  I have determined that I am an “a” cup.  [...]

• The diagnosis…

  Tuesday, March 16th,
  Where does the time go?  In less than a month, its tax day.  Ugh.  So much to do, so little time…
  The sun is shining brightly here today.  There are patches of snow and ice remaining, but mostly what is visible to the eye is brown grass… earth…. alas… Spring is coming, it really is coming.
  It was almost a year ago now that I had my routine mammogram… then more imagines required….then biopsy…. and the words “There is something [...]