51. Healing After Mastectomy: Natalie Ditri's Story of Breast Cancer and Recovery
Breast Cancer Life11 Huhti 2025

51. Healing After Mastectomy: Natalie Ditri's Story of Breast Cancer and Recovery

Preparing for breast cancer surgery was all-consuming once I found out I had an invasive ductal carcinoma in my left breast. I never stopped to think about what might be part of recovery from the nipple-sparing and skin-sparing mastectomy until I was in the recovery room. Then I learned the skin on my left breast was potentially going to be at risk for impaired healing or tissue death. My plastic surgeon had a solution for mitigating this at-risk situation.

In this episode, I am sharing how I spent the hours and days after the mastectomy, leading up to hyperbaric oxygen therapy. This is a series that goes through the process of this (aggressive) wound care approach to "save my flap". Spoiler alert: The skin healed mostly beautifully and and quickly, but not without a few side-effects I was not expecting.

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