Amy Curran Baker, Marybeth Curran Brown

Now What? (eBook, ePUB)

A Patient's Guide to Recovery After Mastectomy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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) doesnít end when you leave the operating room. In Now 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781617051012
• Artikelnr.: 37927269

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

"Introduction
1. Making the Difficult Decisions
2. Now What?
3. After-care, Recovery and Complications
4. Voices
5. The Forms You Will Need"