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stepaheda

50 years old ductal carcinoma in situ

posted 05/02/2009, comments (6)

At the End of Breast Reconstruction!!!!!!!!!!

Hi this is Stepaheda, I have not shareda Post for a very lone time, I'm sorry. However, I have a question if anyone can help me out there. I am scheduled for my final surgery regarding my double mastectomy reconstruction on May 26,2009. It was suppose to only be nippling, however due to completcation from my surgery in Dec, 2008 putting the... Read more Chevron

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Melanie

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posted 03/20/2009, comments (9)

Tomorrow is my last chemo... PTL!

Circled in hot pink on the calendar... Friday, March 20, 2009. It's the day I have been looking forward to for 6 loooong months... the last of 24 chemo treatments. WooHoo! It really hasn't been as bad as I had anticipated. Not that I ever want to do it again! In fact, most of the time I felt just fine. ... Read more Chevron

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sue dyer

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posted 03/12/2009, comments (4)

Anyone for blancmange?

On Tuesday this week I received a visit from a very nice woman called Judy who runs a business here in Melbourne fitting women for bras and prostheses after mastectomy. It's a great idea as it protects your privacy and she can bring the products she knows will be suitable for you and you won't have to negotiate a confusing maze of bras and... Read more Chevron

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PJ Hamel

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posted 01/04/2009, comments (12)

Breast Reconstruction: You Deserve A Choice

Seven years ago, after I learned the lumpectomy I’d gone through hadn’t gotten rid the cancer in my right breast, I was told a mastectomy was necessary. At the same time, my surgeon, Kim Grafton, recommended I speak with the plastic surgery team at our cancer center about a TRAM flap breast reconstruction. With totally inappropriate... Read more Chevron

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kristineaward

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Diagnosed on 11/21/08 with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma

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posted 12/05/2008, comments (2)

It's getting all too real . . . and scarier by the day

I just got word from my Doctor, my surgery is scheduled for 1/16/08. That makes is so much more real now that a date has been set. I have to be there at 5:30am and also have to do more (pre-op) testing. I'm some what relieved that it's after Christmas holidays but it's still very unnerving to know that this disease is still... Read more Chevron

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