Tag: recovery
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Welcome to the Club
This month marked my official induction into the Survivorship Program. I know that phrase should be encouraging, but I didn’t ask for this membership. Never downloaded the app, never registered my email, yet here I am. In the club. This brought so many emotions. I had to reach out to a few of my breast…
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Small Hopes
My posts have been a bit slower recently. Some of this is my attempt to get back to some sense of normalcy. Some of it is being back to work. The last weeks however, I have watched a close friend pass through their final weeks before this horrible disease took their precious life. Although Stage…
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The Next Round
Now that the post op chaos has settled down, I feel like I have gotten a bit of a breather for now. Next week is my Oncology consult and Integrative Care consult along with some more lab work. I was happy to have just a few weeks to not be poked at. I also got…
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Healing All Wounds
I am three days post op today and I have to say that there is a degree of healing that happens beyond the physical incisions. Yesterday I got my first shower and removed my bandages for the first time. My incisions are internally sutured, glued shut, and I was then wrapped in a saran wrap…