On July 29th, my mastectomy and breast reconstruction surgery date was confirmed. Monday, August 19th will be the date of my surgery at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital. In addition to my client, Dr. Tina Alster being a Clinical Professor of Dermatology at Georgetown, my…
MRI On July 1st, I had an MRI at Washington Radiology to determine the extent of the cancer. It went well. I didn’t need to take a Xanax. I was able to just chill out and calm myself naturally. On July 3rd, Dr. Tousimis’s…
Dr. Tousimis referred me to her colleague Dr. David H. Song who is MedStar Health’s Physician Executive Director for MedStar Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery and Academic Chair for the Department of Plastic Surgery at Georgetown University Medical Center. An internationally recognized expert in plastic…
All breast cancer patients have choices that they have to make. One of the first questions a breast cancer patient has to answer is: lumpectomy or mastectomy? With a lumpectomy, the breast cancer tumor and a narrow margin around it is removed, and with…
My client, Dr. Tina Alster who is a clinical professor of dermatology at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC. She is also a breast cancer survivor. She referred me to her colleague, Dr. Eleni Tousimi who I met with on June 25th. Dr.…
I wanted to start by telling readers about my breast cancer diagnosis. I had been putting off my annual gynecologist appointment, but on May 17, 2019, I scheduled an appointment immediately after I read on Facebook that my very first friend from childhood was…