My Double Mastectomy
The more I blog about breast cancer, the more I realize it is easier to share information about breast cancer related studies and products or services than it is to write about topics that are painful to revisit.
Some aspects of my journey have been easy to share … like my first cancer diagnosis in 2003. That was DCIS, easily treatable with a protocol treatment plan. Kind of a no-brainer. Not that it wasn’t hard in many, many ways. But looking back, it was manageable, and not so hard to write about.
I’ve shared a few posts (like with this one) about my recurrence, my IDC diagnosis last Spring and the decision I had to make related to my mastectomy surgery.
Those posts were harder to write.
I have yet to tell you the details of that surgery … that’s the seriously hard stuff to revisit. Rock hard. Cement hard. Concrete hard. (Wait, which is harder, cement or concrete? It’s as hard as that.)
That stuff is coming up next. I’m sorry I’ve been putting it off. I didn’t even journal my way through last year. A therapist would have a field day with that.
Today I’m headed to Yale for a follow up with Dr. Lannin, the surgeon that removed both my breasts. I thought perhaps that was my sign that it was time I shared what my double mastectomy was like.
So that’s what I’m going to do.
Tomorrow.
May 24th, 2007 at 11:22 am
*hugs, hugs, and more hugs*
May 28th, 2007 at 9:33 am
I think that we are sort of opposite in the blog-writing comfort zone. I find it easy to write about myself and harder to put together informational posts.
In my case, I think it’s because I’m an essayist, not a journalist.
May 28th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Jayne, I love your blog, for that reason!