66. Breast Surgeon Follow-Up: 3 Years After Breast Cancer and a Mastectomy
It has been three years since my left skin-sparing, nipple-sparing mastectomy for the diagnosis of invasive ductal carcinoma (breast cancer). I just had my annual follow up with the breast surgeon....
19 Jun 24min
65. Breast Cancer Surgery: Why it's Important to be the Person Having Surgery in the Morning Rather Than at the End of the Breast Surgeon's Day
I've been thinking a lot lately about my surgery back in 2023, when I was diagnosed with invasive carcinoma in the left breast. At that time, I chose to have a left mastectomy. I'm sharing what ...
10 Apr 24min
64. Breast Cancer Surgery: Personal Experience on why it is so Important to Have a Second Opinion for the Breast Surgeon and the Plastic Surgeon
This episode I share what I learned recently that would've helped me more when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023 and seeking the guidance of plastic surgeon and the breast surgeon. My care ul...
3 Apr 23min
63. My three year journey to get my life back after a breast cancer diagnosis
It's been almost 3 years since I was diagnosed with breast cancer. What has happened over the past few months is that I really took a pause from recording episodes. It really was not intentional that...
27 Mar 18min
62. Breast Biopsy Results
I finally got the results of my breast biopsy and I talk about it in this episode. I waited almost 2 weeks, and at times it was very difficult. At some point before getting the results, I experienced ...
21 Jan 15min
61. Natalie D'itri on Living With Uncertainty After an Abnormal MRI
It's something I never thought would happen although I was aware that I wanted to prevent it didn't hit me that it would be reality that I needed another biopsy because something showed up abnormal on...
9 Jan 23min
60. Reflecting on the Time of Diagnosis
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24 Okt 202514min
59. How Breast Cancer Robs me of my Future
After having a history of breast cancer, it makes you think about future dates differently. It may be that before I had cancer I thought about the next year's Christmas or birthday and hoped that ever...
19 Sep 202515min
