In this video I recount the events of my two one-week-post-op appointments with my breast surgeon to go over pathology results and my plastic surgery nurse, who took my bandage and steri strips off to reveal my incision for the first time. (Remember to consult with your doctor about any changes to your pathology after mastectomy!)

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro to my situation: two surgeons, two post-ops
0:28 Unbandaging day--taking off my dressings and taking out my drain
1:33 What it feels like to remove steri strips after a nerve block
2:29 How I dress my incision wounds now that the bandages are off
3:03 Getting my drain out
4:43 Glad the nurse didn't offer me a mirror to see my incision--it needed to be in my timing
5:24 Pathology Report Day: learned about my invasive lobular carcinoma
6:13 Was it hard for me to find out that I did have invasive cancer?
6:34 My pathology report and my margins--didn't get clear margins
7:30 The option of a second breast surgery to remove more skin for clear margins
8:30 I didn't end up getting a goldilocks mastectomy, and now I'm glad!
9:37 The shape of my breast area now
10:08 Waiting to see how I move forward with healing


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