Despite the tag-teaming of breast surgeons and plastic surgeons, and despite the fact that there were no surgical complications, my surgery took 12 hours - 12 hours of anesthesia and lying on the table and keeping my family and friends waiting to hear it was over and that I was fine. Of course, when you're the patient you have no... Read more
With Breast Cancer Comics by Dash Shaw For some reason I'd assumed that I'd be going in for surgery the night before the surgery -- like flying into a city and staying in a hotel the night before a big meeting. I had this assumption, now that I think of it, because back when I was nineteen I had breast reduction surgery... Read more
Illustration: Dash Shaw This is the part of the story that gets interesting -- and the part that is hardest to write because it is here where I plan on being honest. Which is to say that I'm going to describe what it felt like to wake up from a 12-hour surgery and realize that having had a bilateral mastectomy and breast... Read more
With Breast Cancer Comics by Dash Shaw My next stop after Dr. Duggan was Dr. Yoon Chun, a highly-regarded plastic surgeon (referred to by several surgical nurses as ‘an artist') who couldn't be nicer or more lovely or more intensely intelligent and who spent almost two hours with me in her office explaining the... Read more
