Mood: Amazed 😌As I was looking through my pictures the other day I noticed that I have a picture of myself, taken in most months from when I was diagnosed with breast cancer up to the present time. So I decided to make a collection showing how I looked before breast cancer {the first picture} …
Follow-up with My Surgeon
Mood: Good 😁I had another follow-up appointment with my surgeon yesterday and I realized that it has already been a month since I had my surgery. It seems like time is flying by, but that is not a bad thing at all. He took a look at my incisions, said that everything looks great and …
Our Wedding Anniversary
Today is our 16th wedding anniversary and I can't help but look back at this time last year as it was a major turning point in my breast cancer journey. The day after our 15th wedding anniversary last year I started aggressive chemotherapy. I had already gone through my first surgery to remove the cancer …
5 Tips for Coping with Fear of Breast Cancer Recurrence
I agree with so much of what this article talks about. Will I ever not worry about recurrence? Probably not, but I can find a place for that worry in my life, somewhere in the background. Some days I am overwhelmed by thoughts of recurrence, usually sparked by a sudden pain in my breast, which …
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1 Year Anniversary of My Breast Cancer Surgery
Mood: Thoughtful 😏 April 23rd was a bittersweet day for me. A year ago on that day, I had my first surgery to remove my breast cancer. 💕 I was so scared to undergo my first surgery. I had never been through surgery before and it was terrifying to think about a surgeon cutting into …
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2nd Follow-up Appointment with My Surgeon **WARNING: GRAPHIC SURGERY PHOTOS**
Mood: Good 🙂 On Monday I had my second follow-up appointment with my surgeon to remove the two drains and to take a look at the steri-strips that are still in place from my surgery two weeks ago. It didn't really hurt when he pulled the tubing out of my chest from the drains, it …
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