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Now What?

A Patient's Guide to Recovery after Mastectomy

January 17, 2012 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9781936303250
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Description

All the information you need after mastectomy and breast reconstruction surgery so that you can focus on what matters most: healing and staying well.

Why am I so tired all the time? What about these drains? Should I worry about lymphedema? Your mastectomy (with or without reconstruction) doesnâåt end when you leave the operating room. InNow What?, Amy Curran Baker, an occupational therapist who has had a double mastectomy and direct to implant breast reconstruction, and her co-authors, two registered nurses, answer all of your post-surgery questions in this comprehensive and empowering guide.Now What?helps you:

  • Consider your options and make the decisions that are best for you
  • Deal with frozen shoulder syndrome, wound care, swollen lymph nodes, and other side effects of mastectomy
  • Organize the nitty-gritty issues of wound management post-op care with helpful charts and logs
  • Hear real stories from other breast cancer survivors who have had a mastectomy

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About this Author

Amy Curran Baker, MA, OTR/L, has over 13 years of experience as an Occupational Therapist, including treating adult populations at all stages of post-surgical recovery. Ms. Baker became interested in mastectomy/reconstruction care in 2008 after helping her sister Linda recover from a prophylactic mastectomy. Less than two months later, Ms. Baker was diagnosed with breast cancer herself and underwent a mastectomy with reconstruction.


ISBN: 9781936303250
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 198
Publisher: Demos Medical Publishing
Published: 2012-01-17

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