I beg your indulgence of a husband posting to your forum.
My darling wife had a double mastectomy on the 20th of December. Reconstruction was started at the same time with tissue expanders and will continue after radiation and chemo therapy. The good news is that the path report shows they got the entire tumor and affected lymph nodes.
She had desperately wanted to ride this year as injury prevented sledding last season.
I’m looking for your real experiences and advice on healing from surgery and therapy so I can plan for the spring. My wife thinks that in six or eight weeks she’ll be strong enough for a few road rips and I’m concerned that activity like that could be very damaging. She would like me to promise to take her out; I don’t want to promise what I can’t deliver. So, how long after surgery did you feel you had the strength and stamina to ride?
My girl is already a cancer survivor already having been diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1984 that migrated around her abdomen resulting in many operations and three long rounds of chemo. She had been cancer free from 1988 until finding the lump in November. Her experience half a lifetime ago having surgery or treatment and still having to raise children has, I believe, given her greater expectations of her recuperative powers then can be expected today.
I know that talking about cancer on an open forum like this can be difficult but if you feel you can share by PM I’d appreciate it.
Thanks,
Chief
My darling wife had a double mastectomy on the 20th of December. Reconstruction was started at the same time with tissue expanders and will continue after radiation and chemo therapy. The good news is that the path report shows they got the entire tumor and affected lymph nodes.
She had desperately wanted to ride this year as injury prevented sledding last season.
I’m looking for your real experiences and advice on healing from surgery and therapy so I can plan for the spring. My wife thinks that in six or eight weeks she’ll be strong enough for a few road rips and I’m concerned that activity like that could be very damaging. She would like me to promise to take her out; I don’t want to promise what I can’t deliver. So, how long after surgery did you feel you had the strength and stamina to ride?
My girl is already a cancer survivor already having been diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1984 that migrated around her abdomen resulting in many operations and three long rounds of chemo. She had been cancer free from 1988 until finding the lump in November. Her experience half a lifetime ago having surgery or treatment and still having to raise children has, I believe, given her greater expectations of her recuperative powers then can be expected today.
I know that talking about cancer on an open forum like this can be difficult but if you feel you can share by PM I’d appreciate it.
Thanks,
Chief