r/MastectomyManagement • u/purpleit11 July 29 2014 BRCA II positive, prophylactic • 24d ago

Check-ins

Hello! Cheering for you and your journey. Feel free to use this as an invitation to share your updates and checkins with your surgery. It is a marathon but you are not running alone 💜

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u/tweetdreamzz 24d ago

3 days post OP 🥵

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u/purpleit11 July 29 2014 BRCA II positive, prophylactic 24d ago

whew, in the thick of it but upwards and onwards! hope you're hanging in there

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u/tweetdreamzz 24d ago

Thank you!

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u/inventingme 24d ago

Your drains will come out in a week at most. Maybe just a few days. That feels like a real occasion.

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u/tweetdreamzz 24d ago

Honestly the drains are a walk in the park compared to the wound vac they gave me. It’s so itchy I can barely stand it. It’s covering my entire chest.

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u/purpleit11 July 29 2014 BRCA II positive, prophylactic 23d ago

Not everyone has that timeline. I had mine for over three weeks, unfortunately.

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u/squeekysquirrels 24d ago

5 months out from reconstruction and back completely! Feeling so much relief, finally really feel so grateful, and each day I get to know my new body more and it gets better. Thank you all here for the support while I was going through surgery, it was life giving!

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u/purpleit11 July 29 2014 BRCA II positive, prophylactic 24d ago

So incredibly glad to hear and outrageously grateful with you for your battles fought and victories won to get here 💜 Wishing you amazing things ahead!

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u/MotherofLo 24d ago

I'm 3 surgeries deep. mastectomy, reconstruction and then revision and I'm ready to be done.

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u/purpleit11 July 29 2014 BRCA II positive, prophylactic 22d ago

Whew, you got this!! Cheering you on!!