I made it. I went home and slept/watched Netflix for a week. Or three. Loved ones visited, brought lunch, sent flowers, and called. Thank you notes were written and mailed. (That's another thing to make sure you have before you go to the hospital... lots and lots of thank you notes and stamps.) I sleep on my back. Still. That sucks. Mornings are the most difficult time of the day. I wake up and lie still, assessing what it is that I am feeling. Tightness, yes. Pain, perhaps. Aching, always. Once I figure out how in the world I'm going to sit up, I execute the supine-to-sit transfer, and I wait. This is when my muscles figure out that it wasn't just a bad dream, and they contract. Hard. I was in Publix, in the produce section, and I stopped in front of the hard, brown, hairy coconuts. That's what I feel like is under my skin. Almost constantly. My drains came out in week two. T...
Sharing my experience with mastectomy and reconstruction to encourage, empower, and uplift those who find themselves caught up in the whirlwind of the breast cancer experience.