Category: Breast Cancer
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A Guide To Recovery Post Mastectomy – Essentials & Tips

A mastectomy is not a surgery you will ever feel ready for, but this guide will help make your recovery a little easier to handle. The recovery period is generally 4-6 weeks. It will take longer to heal emotionally. The list below includes both essential items and some tips that helped me personally- both physically…
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10 Things Not To Say To Someone With Breast Cancer

Cancer does not just affect the person diagnosed, but also their family and friends. Cancer forces you into an unknown world, a world you never wanted to be a part of but you just can’t seem to escape. No one really knows what they should say or do. I just know that there were a…
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My Journey From Chaos to Calm

Kintsukoroi – a Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with gold. They believe the repaired item is even more beautiful than the original, because of its imperfections. My cancer diagnosis shattered me into pieces, and I am only just sticking them back together, with gold. Let me start from the very beginning, when I was…
