"Wk 24: The Diary Game and Your Health | Radical Mastectomy. / Mastectomia Radical.

Hello dear friends. Today in the contest run by my friend @aaliarubab called: The Diary Game I want to talk to you about a term that I didn't know and that maybe the same thing will happen to you: Mastectomy.
This one has a specialty that I didn't know existed either: Mastologist. Mastologist is the Doctor who is in charge of the study of women's breasts and I did not know that this specialty existed. Mastology is the operation that the Mastologist performs on one or two breasts due to problems with cysters or tumors that almost always appear in women's breasts.

Don't call me ignorant for not knowing, it's just that I was never a sick woman who lived in hospitals or clinics, I almost never took pills for a headache. I only went to my gynecologist appointments and I didn't go many times, and I don't feel bad for not knowing because there are still many specialties that we don't know about. These times of Covid and pandemics are what have made us realize the misinformation we have about health.

Next June it will be 1 year since I had a radical mastectomy on my left breast. This is something that for many is strong, it does not mean that it is not for me, but that I have been able to cope with it more because I do not have a husband nor do I have children to breastfeed, and that stage of my life passed. Since I have small breasts, the truth is that it doesn't show much, only from time to time the wound hurts and the bra bothers me during the operation.

When the doctor told me that he would do a radical mastectomy, he explained to me what that means, but the truth is that I have seen others who have not had everything removed but have only removed the tumor and left the breast complete, with her nipple and all. But they say that each case is different and it totally affected me. He only told me that it was so that another tumor would not appear again and he had to abide by the doctor's rules.

In this photo you can see the tumor and the 5 nodes that were removed, they are taken in formalin for a Pathology specialty since the Pathologist is the one who does the Biopsies. They performed biopsies on the lymph nodes, which came out free of contamination of cancer cells, and on the tumor, which did shed malignant cells but was encapsulated, meaning that it had not left its bag and had not spread throughout the body.

This is the scar that will remain for the rest of my days, but with the favor of God it will be the change to be healthy again and that no more cells of that type will come out, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Scars are a reminder of everything you went through during a time of illness and that you came out okay. How weak you were and how strong you now are and that mainly you were always in the hand of God because you couldn't have endured all those things alone. God is the one who gives us the strength and understanding to overcome difficulties.

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@somibriggs @kerengnc @teauku-ary

Hola queridos amigos. Hoy en el concurso que lleva la amiga @aaliarubab llamado: El Juego del Diario quiero hablarles de un termino que yo no conocia y que quizas a ti te pase lo mismo: Mastectomia.
Este tiene una especialidad que yo tampoco sabia que existia: Mastologo. Mastologo es el Doctor que se encarga del estudio de las mamas de la mujer y que yo no sabia que esta especialidad existia. Mastologia es la operacion que realiza el Mastologo a una o dos mamas por problemas de quisters o tumores que casi siempre aparecen en los senos de las mujeres.

No me llamen ignorante por no saberlo, es solo que yo nunca fui una mujer enferma que viviera metida en hospitales o en clinicas, casi nunca tome pastillas para un dolor de cabeza. Yo solo iba a mis citas del ginecologo y no fue muchas veces, y no me siento mal por no saberlo porque hay todavia muchas especialidades que no conocemos. Estos tiempor de Covid y de pandemias son los que nos han hecho darnos cuenta la desinformacion que tenemos de la salud.

El proximo mes de Junio cumplire 1 año de haberme realizado la mastectomia radical del seno izquierdo. Esto es algo que para muchas es fuerte, no quiere decir que para mi no lo sea, sino que lo he sabido sobrellevar mas debido a que no tengo esposo ni tengo hijos a los que amamantar, ya esa etapa de mi vida paso. Como soy de senos pequeños la verdad no se me nota mucho, solo de vez en cuando que me duele la herida y me molesta el sosten en la parte de la operacion.

Cuando el doctor me dijo que haria una mastectomia radical me explico lo que eso significa, pero la verdad he visto a otras que no les han quitado todo sino que solo han sacado el tumor y el seno se lo han dejado completo, con su pezon y todo. Pero por alli dicen que cada caso es distinto y a mi me toco total. El solo me dijo que era para que no volviera a salir otro tumor y tenia que acatar las normas del doctor.

En esta foto se puede ver el tumor y los 5 ganglios que me extirparon, los llevan en formol para una especialidad de Patologia ya que el Patologo es quien hace las Biopsias. Le realizaron biopsias a los ganglios, los cuales salieron libres de contaminacion de celulas cancerigenas y al tumor el cual si arrojo celulas malignas pero estaba encapsulado, o sea que no se habia salido de su bolsa y no se habia regado por el cuerpo.

Esta es la cicatriz que quedara por el resto de mis dias, pero con el favor de Dios sera el cambio para ser nuevamente sana y que no salgan mas celulas de ese tipo, en el nombre de nuestro señor Jesucristo. Las cicatrices son un recordatorio de todo lo que pasaste durante un tiempo de enfermedad y que saliste con bien. Lo debil que eras y lo fuerte que ahora eres y que principalmente siempre estuviste de la mano de Dios porque todas esas cosas solo no lo hubieras podido soportar. Dios es el que nos da la fortaleza y el entendimiento para sobre llevar las dificultades.