カテゴリー: Breast and reconstruction

My name is Monica, I’m 38 years old and I’m from Peru. I would say that I’m very positive, I’m an easy-going person, and I’m kind of careless, like I really want to live every second of my life now. Motivation and being positive is something that I learned when I was very young. I was raised in that way. I was raised to be fearless, to be positive, and to be strong, so I think I was prepared kind of for this process. And of course, my motivation was being a mom at that moment, because I wanted to be with my kids. The type of cancer that I […]

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“It was December 23, right before Christmas, that I got the call from the pathologist. He checked the biopsy over and over — and then told me the bad news: I had cancer. I just burst into tears. I told the surgeons ‘I don’t want any part of me that can put me through all this again, so let’s do this. My surgeon did both the mastectomy and reconstruction at the same time. It was a very long surgery but when I came out of it, I looked down and saw I looked like I had before – it was like a weight was lifted and I felt this huge […]

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