Many have now written asking about the type of cancer and the surgical process, so here is the decision I have made about it. I chose not to use the diagnostic label that the medical world has given to me. That particular combination of letters and numbers is just too jolting and awful. Instead, I chose to say that certain cells in my left breast made a unilateral decision to protect my heart in a way that I call a FAIL. Consequently, I am going to have them removed and the rest of the tissue in my breast. This is called a mastectomy because once they take the silly thing out, there will be little left. I am also having an adenoma (not such an ugly word) removed from the right breast because it is behaving pathologically. In my initial surgery, I will have the right side augmented and on the left, they will be placing a tissue expander so that in a few months, they will match the left to the right in another surgery and I will be back in my bikini on my paddle board looking like nothing ever happened by the end of the year!
Posted on: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 04:22:10 +0000
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