Photo: Lyla checking out the surfOkay, well after sharing some of my feelings regarding making the right treatment choice of a mastectomy I had the honour of coming across a blog by a woman, Rachel Levin Troxell. What can I say? Only that the universe has its own unique ways of educating one.
Rachel was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 34 years. Her blog takes you through her journey. I highly recommend reading it starting from the beginning (you will have to scroll down to the bottom of the page to get the first entry and then click forward for each month and then scroll down again for the first posting of the month). This blog is so well written in so many ways. And what a teaching for me at this time!
One important point I left off my from past posting of surgery ruminations was: age. Breast cancer is almost a different disease for younger premenopausal women and, I believe, should be treated with extreme caution i.e. aggressively. (So, maybe a mastectomy was the right treatment? Ha!).
Here's Rachel's blog. Thank you, Rachel. You are such an inspiration.
http://rachellevin.blogspot.com/2005_06_01_archive.html
