Mammograms & Mastectomies

I was just wondering… do I get to pay half-price?  

It’s no secret: our family loves basketball. Since the mastectomy, I’ve had hardly any strength in my right arm and I’ve been a bit bummed about it. What’s a life without basketball, volleyball, or tennis? On a recent trip to Orcas Island to watch my kids play in their league, we had an hour to kill. […]

Now that I have no strength left in my right arm (due to the mastectomy), I find myself twice as much wanting to do the following: 1. Play tennis. 2. Play basketball. 3. “Total Gym” my arms. 4. Go bowling. 5. Take drum lessons.  

When I got fitted for my prosthesis after the mastectomy a year ago, my Nordstrom friendly fitter told me I would need to come back for another appointment. I wonder if I’m getting a new bra or a new prosthesis… probably a new boob because my other one is sagging. Oh wait, that’s my good […]

It was a year ago today that I had my mastectomy. I won’t be posting any pictures of that.  

I’m finally getting physical therapy for possible lymphedema this morning. Wish I was getting an all-over body massage at a spa in the Caribbean instead. One can always hope.  

I’ve put off the physical therapy long enough. My arm has just not been the same since my mastectomy on January 21, even though I’ve done the exercises Dr. Williamson showed me. I’m thinking that I need to get my arm back in working order for: 1. Clapping in church to happy music 2. Playing […]

Dr. Williamson warned me last week that now that the “frenzy of the mastectomy and high-dose chemotherapy is over,” I should be aware of two possible things that could happen: I will become weepy or I will become angry. What he didn’t say, was that I would become loony. My To-Do List is starting to have […]

Dr. Williamson looked at my arm today. He thought it might, in fact, have lymphedema, and I will have a test to confirm it next Tuesday. He then proceeded to ask me if I have any pain in the mastectomy site and before I knew it, I had blurted out, “Did you know that bras come […]