Your surgeon handles the surgery. Lists handle everything else.
Lists
Choose your lists, Just click on the image and your list should populate.
General Recovery Essentials Start here. This is the stuff you need no matter which surgery you're facing.
Mastectomy Your first surgery. You don't know what you don't know yet, that's why this list exists. Includes DTI Mastectomy.
Implant Reconstruction & Revision Expanders, implants, capsulectomy, explant, the whole implant journey and everything that comes with it.
DIEP Flap Microsurgery-vascular surgery. Multiple surgical sites. A longer recovery. Your own tissue, no more implants. This is the big one.
Real Talk
Nobody tells you this: reconstruction is not always one surgery. It's a process that can span years. Each surgery has a different recovery.
Be patient with yourself, be clear with your surgeon, and don't let anyone minimize what you're going through. You are not alone in this! 💖