This just goes to show how quickly time flies. I can't believe how long since I last posted.
Well, what to say..............
It is now almost two years since the initial operation, the mastectomy. I still constantly wish I hadn't done it. I am still always uncomfortable or in pain so I can never forget about it and that is why I regret it. I am grateful that my risk of cancer has now dropped so low, but when I think how easily breast cancer is detected and even cured these days, I honestly wish quite often that I had stayed the way I was.
I don't regret the hysterectomy though. And I have had absolutely no trouble over the last couple of years.
So many people I know are now having to go through these operations, it's crazy. They ask what my opinion is on the various operations, mastectomy and hysterectomy, and I am open and honest. I tell them my sister and I had both ops and, when it comes to our mastectomy we even had the same surgeon and plastic surgeon, and we have had totally opposite results.
Her breasts look so real and have given her almost no grief, that's not to say she wouldn't prefer her flesh and blood of course lol, and yet mine are quite ugly in my eyes and I have been in constant pain and discomfort all along. To the point I have recently had to give my dream job away because the strain was starting to get to much for me, mentally and physically.
I went back to see my plastic surgeon last week and he can find no reason for the pain so he sent me to the surgeon who has made an appointment for me to see a pain specialist early in the new year.
I guess everyone is different with something like this because there is so much to be taken into consideration. Not only the actual operations but the psychological affects as well. I had no idea how much this whole thing would play on my mind. I knew I would feel differently, but didn't think it would be this much.
I would never tell anybody facing this decision not to go ahead, but I would most definitely tell them to really think about it.
Ovarian cancer can still kill you before you know it, but the survival rate from breast cancer is high and getting higher all the time, so really think it over. I tried to turn this into a joke and think of it as getting a new set of boobs that would stay perky for the rest of my life, but it is so much more than that, So much more.
What ever you choose, ask for help and support whenever you can. And take all the help that is offered.
Well, what to say..............
It is now almost two years since the initial operation, the mastectomy. I still constantly wish I hadn't done it. I am still always uncomfortable or in pain so I can never forget about it and that is why I regret it. I am grateful that my risk of cancer has now dropped so low, but when I think how easily breast cancer is detected and even cured these days, I honestly wish quite often that I had stayed the way I was.
I don't regret the hysterectomy though. And I have had absolutely no trouble over the last couple of years.
So many people I know are now having to go through these operations, it's crazy. They ask what my opinion is on the various operations, mastectomy and hysterectomy, and I am open and honest. I tell them my sister and I had both ops and, when it comes to our mastectomy we even had the same surgeon and plastic surgeon, and we have had totally opposite results.
Her breasts look so real and have given her almost no grief, that's not to say she wouldn't prefer her flesh and blood of course lol, and yet mine are quite ugly in my eyes and I have been in constant pain and discomfort all along. To the point I have recently had to give my dream job away because the strain was starting to get to much for me, mentally and physically.
I went back to see my plastic surgeon last week and he can find no reason for the pain so he sent me to the surgeon who has made an appointment for me to see a pain specialist early in the new year.
I guess everyone is different with something like this because there is so much to be taken into consideration. Not only the actual operations but the psychological affects as well. I had no idea how much this whole thing would play on my mind. I knew I would feel differently, but didn't think it would be this much.
I would never tell anybody facing this decision not to go ahead, but I would most definitely tell them to really think about it.
Ovarian cancer can still kill you before you know it, but the survival rate from breast cancer is high and getting higher all the time, so really think it over. I tried to turn this into a joke and think of it as getting a new set of boobs that would stay perky for the rest of my life, but it is so much more than that, So much more.
What ever you choose, ask for help and support whenever you can. And take all the help that is offered.
