No one will ever understand how traumatic it is to look down and see a huge, ugly scar where your breast used to be. It does make you feel less feminine and less beautiful. Maybe not all, but surely in my case. When I put on certain shirts, it really looks awkward, so I usually have to change my shirt at least twice to find one that looks ok on me. My mind still has a hard time comprehending what has happened in my life. I've been under an extreme amount of stress, and I'm praying that I don't have a breakdown. Sometimes I just want to run away, but what would that help? Some days I'm super strong, and on other days I'm barely holding on. My memory has been effected by the chemo, and it has started to become more noticeable as time moves on. My nerves are definitely damaged, and I'm wonder after my surgery if I'll have any feeling in my breasts? Right now, I don't have any feeling under my arm where the 8 lymph nodes were removed, and I have no fee...
Take a journey with me thru my ups and downs of dealing with Triple Negative Breast Cancer, mental health issues (anxiety, depression, and PTSD), and how survivorship/remission has changed me. I am here to engage, educate, uplift, and help anyone that I can this includes, cancer patients, their caregivers, and the survivors.