Surgery Yuck!

Met with the surgeon today to discuss my surgery options. He was extremely positive and helped to make me feel very confident about my decisions. So my decision is that I will be having a bilateral mastectomy. That means that he will be removing my cancerous breast and some lymph nodes around it, and also removing my right healthy breast. This was what I was leaning towards and then after meeting with Dr. Austen today and hearing his advice I have decided to go for it. With my family history of cancer this will give me one less thing to worry about. It looks like the surgery will take place in about a month, as they need to wait at least 4 weeks after my last chemo treatment. Dr. Austen said that physically the surgery is not difficult. Very little recovery time as far as surgeries go. I guess the hard part is the emotional bit. It is the removal of a part of your body, a part that is our society has a lot of emphasis and importance placed on it. I am not really sure exactly how I feel about all of this. Perhaps like everything else it will just take time to sink in. Will it be hard to get used to....for sure. I am sure it will be pretty scary and hard to get used to, but nothing can be worse than the alternative.