There were so many questions to ask about my situation, and so many answers that could not be given. Living with the questions was the only way through. 26 July 2006 This journal is becoming vital. I can sit and weep, I can regret the bloody genes, I can say that every bad joke and…
Category: Medical Humanities
Scars
I’m lucky, my scars are quite neat and flat, and the incision lines themselves now silvery. The scars are not quite symmetrical – the surgeon said that’s because my breasts weren’t quite symmetrical. 28 June 2006 This morning I woke thinking about breasts and femininity – how empowering to have breasts, but how potentially empowering…
Looking back
Five years ago, I was trying to decide whether to have preventive bilateral mastectomy. Here’s the first entry in the journal I was to write for eighteen months. 27 June 2006 I am contemplating having my breasts removed. Elective surgery. Still an op little known here in the UK… at Guys Hospital four or five women…
Clare Best 