Breast cancer and me : assessing the damage
A week after the op, I had an appointment with the breast care nurse to check the wound. Throughout the week there had been no need to do anything to the dressings (one for the breast, one for the lymph node area in the armpit), and I'd been careful on the few occasions that I'd showered - I had been advised by the surgeon to do strip washes only for the first 5 days post-op - to not make the dressings so damp that I needed to redo them. Not something I fancied trying to do by myself. So, this was the first opportunity to assess the wound post-op and to check all was OK. It was also the first chance I had to look at it properly. I will talk more about it in another post but due to the position of Leonard the lump, I had been told that the nipple would need to go. Of course I was OK with this. It was more important that the cancer was removed than anything else, and I had been reassured that if I wished, there could be a nipple reconstruction a year on which, at that point, I w...
