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Breast Cancer Sucks, Love Amy: January 23 & 24, 2023: Pre-operation Appointments

Pre-operation Appointments

Had my pre-operation appointments with both the general surgeon (Dr. Reading) and the plastic surgeon (Dr. Katira) on Monday and Tuesday respectively.  I feel really good about having composed and brought with me a description of my expected surgery plan (and I gave a copy and read aloud a copy to each surgeon).  This is something I hadn’t seen mentioned by any of the online searching I had done to try and prepare myself as a lay-person going into surgery.  I’m glad I did, that way we could firmly establish whether or not we were on the same page with respect to the surgery particulars and also I could get any questions I had written down answered.  After each appointment, I updated the surgery plan with new amendments to reflect the things mentioned by the surgeons.  It appears that we are all of the same understanding, so far as I can gauge.

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