Breast cancer rehabilitation requires occupational therapy
“I wish I could get a free boob job.”
It is a comment I heard more than once after sharing I was undergoing a double mastectomy. I understand the impulse, people do not know what to say. But the joke reveals something worth examining: how little most people understand about what this surgery actually costs you.
At 28, I found out I carried the breast cancer gene 1 (BRCA1) mutation. At 34, …
Breast cancer rehabilitation requires occupational therapy
