Ryland Brooks·3d agoAfter a Mastectomy:How to Walk Back Into the WorldIt’s your first trip to the supermarket. Or your first lunch with friends. Perhaps it’s walking back into work, or into church, or into a…
InThe ShortformbyEvergreen Encounters with Christina Vaughn·5d agoBreast Reconstruction Has Sidelined My Life ConsiderablyBut I am still glad I did it.A response icon1A response icon1
Ryland Brooks·Oct 23Intimacy After Mastectomy: Being Touched Again Without BracingThe lights are off, which already tells you something. You used to leave them on without thinking about it.
Ryland Brooks·Oct 16Why Can’t I Think Straight After My Mastectomy?(Brain Fog)ou read the same paragraph three times and still couldn’t tell someone what it said. You walked into the kitchen and forgot why. You stood…
Ryland Brooks·Oct 9The Post Mastectomy Stranger in my MirrorMaybe it happened the first time you stood in front of the bathroom mirror after surgery. Maybe you’d spent days avoiding it — changing…
Ryland Brooks·Oct 2How to Answer “How Are You?” After a Mastectomy — Without Lying and Without OversharingYour child is standing in the kitchen doorway, backpack still on, and asks the question you’ve been quietly dreading. *Are you going to be…
Ryland Brooks·Sep 28Why Everyone Keeps Saying “You Look Great” After Your Mastectomy ” And Why It Can Feel So LonelyThe flowers have faded. The cards have come down off the mantel. Meals have stopped arriving at the door. The texts that used to start with…
Ryland Brooks·Sep 23Why You Feel Guilty for Laughing After a Mastectomy (And Why That Guilt Has It Backwards)You laugh. Really laugh! not politely, not because you felt you should. Something catches you by surprise, and for a few wonderful seconds…
Hooman Noorchashm·Jun 20, 2025A Patient Safety And Ethics Violation Warning to Cigna CEO, Mr.The following e-mail string is being published for U.S. public benefit, and to inform Cigna policyholders and the plastic surgeons across…
Janet Hiser·Jan 6, 2024A Strange CalculusPreventative medical care is a funny thing. It presupposes that you’ll be around for a while and that efforts to prolong your health and…
