First and foremost, if you take a friend with you make sure thier level of positivity matches or elevates yours. My friend was focussed on past experiences with two loved one's completely different cancer journeys and it was a bit of a nightmare. I know how much she cares for me, and I'm sorry if this hurts feelings, but if you're 'supporting' a friend please remember they need to be around positivie energy.
The surgeon and his registrar were wonderful guys. They both listened carefully to my decision to have a double mastectomy with full and immediate reconstruction and agreed that I could absolutly do that, or...
I could have a lumpectomy, get rid of the cancer, get through treatment and then revisit the idea of a double mastectomy.
Because the reconstruction surgeons don't do it immediately and if he did the mastectomy and then i had to wait to get reconstruction "the skin would lose elasticity and dry out." Eeewww! Leather Tits!!
Dr Hamza made it very clear he wasn't advising me to do anything, but wanted to present me with my options so I could make up my own mind.
Bless his heart! He was brilliant!!
He then booked me in for surgery on Friday 16 December. No messing about.
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