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Laura Zigman's SharePosts

Too Busy to Think about Breast Cancer

I've been feeling terrible lately about not writing any Shareposts.  Until I realized the reason why I haven't been writing any Shareposts:   I've been too busy to think about breast cancer.   Who would have thought the day would ever come that I'd get up, go about my business, and not think about my reconstructed body for most... Read moreChevron

The Party

A few weeks ago, I was invited to a party.  It wasn't a birthday party, or an anniversary party, or a graduation party.  It wasn't an engagement party,  a baby shower party, a congratulations-on-getting-your-book-published party, or a retirement party.  It wasn't the normal kind of occasion that inspires people to gather, with... Read moreChevron

Choosing Double Mastectomy Before You Even Have Cancer - Jessica Queller's Decision

    A few weeks ago my friend who is the publisher of a new division of Random House sent me an amazing book she's publishing: PRETTY IS WHAT CHANGES: Impossible Choices, the Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied my Destiny by Jessica Queller.   I opened the book and took a quick look at it, thinking I'd put it aside until I... Read moreChevron

My Friend Wendy -- An Amazing Support After My Nipple Reconstruction Surgery

Everyone should have a Wendy. My Wendy -- Wendy Hurwitz -- is one of those amazing friends who is pathologically helpful. But in a good way. Always there for the emergency school pick-up and playdate (luckily we have boys the same age at the same school, which is how we met). Always there with the information about the field trip you forgot... Read moreChevron

Putting on the Finishing Touches (Literally): Nipple Reconstruction

Three weeks ago I had some follow up plastic surgery to the double TRAM flap reconstructive surgery I had almost a year and a half ago: nipple reconstruction procedure, which I could have had four months after my original surgery. When my surgeon suggested I schedule it last March I did, but then I cancelled it. I rescheduled it again for... Read moreChevron

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