Dealing with emotions after surgery

AnnAnders

I am just a friend trying to help someone who is going to have a mascetomy tomorrow. She is very concerned about how she will look and feel. Can anyone help me with some ideas on how to help her get through her emotional feelings about losing her breasts. I feel she is already shutting off the world because she is so concerned about how others will look at her. Please help me with any ideas or share some of your personal struggles you went through.. may be she wont feel so alone in all this.

 Thanks

iodine

Hello Ann, How kind of you to care about your friend.  She is welcome to our little group and we would be more than happy to help her thru some of the tough stuff,as we as the not so tough stuff. 

 You may get more information on a board about friends and family.  This board is for moving beyond cancer, so the responses will likely not be forthcomming.

You will learn a great deal more on the friends and family boards.  Good luck and I hope your friend does well.  Just keep listening to her.

Sandeeonherown

Give her things she does well so her confidence stays up, getting her exercizing if she can to eel more in control of her body snf dome choices...have her swing through the opics and look at ones th are appealing o her..and to you my dear