Oct 1, 2019: Back on August 12th, I had a 3-month post-op visit with Dr. Brown, my plastic surgeon. In my last surgery on May 2, he had...

June 11, 2019 - I started writing this post 8 days ago and never finished. (See below for original post.) I'm almost 6 weeks post-surgery...

April 10, 2019 - Happy Spring! In three weeks, I'll be having my fifth, and hopefully last, surgery related to my BRCA1 gene mutation,...

Feb 21, 2019 - Wanted to let you all know that the extra procedure I had to have on Jan 30 did the trick. I no longer have any...

Feb 2, 2019 - This past Wed, Jan 30, I had a brief (70 min) outpatient surgery at Sibley Hospital. Dr. Brown was concerned about an area...

Jan. 22, 2019 -- It's been almost two weeks since I last posted. A lot has happened! Everything was going perfectly: the drains were out,...

This past Thursday, Jan 3rd, 15 days post-surgery, I had an appointment with Dr. Brown. I was SO excited when he told me that I could...

Lots of news for this update. My mastectomy was last Wed, Dec 19th. I came home the following day. On Friday, my Mom came for several...

Yesterday, Dec 19th, exactly 8 months from the time (my 61st birthday on April 19th) I discovered I had a genetic BRCA1 mutation, I...

It's been two months since I wrote my last post. So much going on lately that writing about it all began to seem daunting. But it finally...

Dec 8th UPDATE: Due to lingering inflammation and edema in my breasts following reduction surgery, my surgeons highly recommended...

I started a new blog post a week ago and never finished, but I have more to report now, anyway! The good news is I'm basically back to...

Yesterday was 1 week post-breast-reduction surgery. Larry met me for my 2pm appointment at Dr. Coleman Brown's office. He's such a nice...

Monday, August 6, we had to be at Sibley Surgical Center at 5:45 am. Got checked in, and they had me put on a gown and a cap covering my...

Tomorrow (Monday, Aug 6) I am having a breast reduction. It's an operation I considered having about 20 years ago but never did. Now I'm...

For the past 3 months, I have had to try to get used to the idea that I am planning to have my breasts removed as a way to prevent...

I know what you're thinking. I thought it, too, before I was faced with this decision. I remember when my 1st cousin found out she had a...

On July 12, 2018, I had my ovaries and Fallopian tubes removed. My risk of getting ovarian cancer just went way, way down. This past...