Had my mastectomy 5/14 and currently sobbing feeling the empty space where my beautiful but filled with cancer breast was. It was such a good breast. It made me feel so beautiful and fed my children for a year. I can't believe I'll never feel my nipple again. I can have reconstruction in 6 months but nothing will ever be the same. I am so upset and don't know what to do besides cry
I have nearly 3 year old twins at home and my single mastectomy is on a Thursday so my early recovery days will be with my needy and whiny toddlers at home over the weekend. Obviously my husband will do his best to manage them and my mom was going to stay over to help watch them also. I'll try to hide away in our room but she's very worried they're going to come bother me or cry so much that I feel the urge to come and help them. She's insisting I stay at her place which is an hour and a half away. I'm curious to hear experiences from other people who recovered from the surgery with young ones at home and how you managed it? One of the twins is a huge mama's boy and will throw massive long tantrums if he doesn't get what he wants. I'm thinking I should just set myself up to deal with hearing them cry a lot but my mom thinks it'll be too hard on me.
Also fuck cancer I do not want to lose my breast and all of this sucks!!!!!