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The Trash Bag after Mastectomy Surgery

 One doesn’t have time to deal with the reality of no breasts when unbearable pain is the sole focus. The morning after my surgery, the pain on the right side of my chest was so severe I could hardly breathe, and constant, with no reprieve, as if an arrow had been...

The Decisions in Managing the Diagnosis

 Immediately after hearing those words, “You have breast cancer,” you are introduced to physicians you never really wanted to meet.  Besides the general surgeon who will be taking the cancer out of your body, you are introduced to an oncologist who discusses placing...