capsular contracture

• the element of surprise

  

  I’m forever surprising myself. And life is forever surprising me. When I blogged before my surgery, I was terrified. I wrote about how having a bilateral mastectomy resurrected this feeling of losing a part of myself, something I’d felt back when I was 16 and lost my hair because of chemo. I also wrote that all those…

  Mimi

  August 11, 2015

  Mimi’s Mastectomy

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