Tag: Whipple procedure
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The Devil and the Drip
Chemo may save your life, but it does not arrive gently. Mine brought nausea, bone pain, hospitalizations, isolation, fear, and the long, unfinished afterlife of survivorship. This is the truth about the terrible bargain of cancer treatment: brutal, necessary, life-saving, and far uglier than most people understand.
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“Don’t Forget My Belly Button!”
When a surgeon offered to rebuild my belly button for free, I discovered I was far more emotionally invested in that useless little nub than any rational person should be. After enough surgeries to qualify as renovation, keeping it felt less like vanity and more like preserving one stubborn, original piece of myself.
70 Staples - Not broken. Rebuilt. 