Starbear - basically I have a spelling mistake in the BRACA1 gene, which is the gene that controls breast cancer, ovarian, peritoneal and some other cancers too.
This means I had an 85% lifetime risk of Breast Cancer and a 60% risk of ovarian and the other cancers.
My mum is the only femal member of the family who has got to 54 withour having anytype of cancer and the only female to live to 65 and
So I have an oophorectomy in July 2008 (ovaries and tubes removed) to reduce my risk of those cancers. I had colonoscopy and gasgoscopy to check those areas was having a double mastectomy and reconstruction in Feb.
It was then that things went drastiocally wrong I had a reaction to the impalants had to have them revmoved along with affected tissue and skin. Then I got septicemia and almost died
I have been left with really emotional issues and feelins about the way I look. I feel butchered. DH find it difficult to look at the area let alone touch it
So I need some help to come to terms with what has happened and learn some techniques to enable me to accept that this has happened and this is the way I am going to be for the forseable future, if not forever.
Sorry if that turned into an essay. It hurts to be left like this, even though I did it for all the right reasons, to be with my precious fam,ily for longer. It doesnt stop me feeling mutulated .
Sorry to go on.