Bald Is Better with Earrings by Hutton, Andrea -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Dedication Contents Introduction 1. My Story

• The Lumps • Top 5 Tips for When You Are Diagnosed

2. Tests

• MRI • Top 5 Tips for Your First MRI • PET Scan • Top 5 Tips for PET/CT Scans • Bone Scan • Top 5 Tips for a Bone Scan

3. Results

• Telling Your Family and Friends • Sharing the News • Choosing a Surgeon • Top 5 Tips for Choosing a Surgeon

4. Surgery

• One Lump Or Two? and Other Agonizing Choices • Reconstruction • Top 5 Tips for Choosing Your Surgery • Before • During • The Drain • After • Getting Dressed • Postsurgical Follow-Up • Top 5 Tips for Before and After a Mastectomy • Bra Shopping • Lymph Nodes and Your Arm • Top 5 Tips for Preventing Lymphedema • The Port • Accessing the Port/Lab Work • Port Whines • Top 5 Tips for Dealing with a Port

5. Chemotherapy

• Day One • What to Bring • Top 5 Tips During Chemo • The Chemo Room • Top 5 Tips After Chemo • The Side Effects • Top 5 Tips for Handling Chemo • Complications—and More Side Effects • Hot Flashes • Top 5 Tips for Dealing with Side Effects • Steroids • Top Tip for Steroid Side Effects • Drug Allergies and Adverse Reactions • Top 5 Tips for Understanding Your Treatments

6. Bald Is Better with Earrings

• To Shave or Not to Shave • Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow • Top 5 Tips for When You Are Going Bald • Getting Wiggy and the Art of Scarf Tying • Top 5 Tips for Wig Wearers • Growing Back • Top 5 Tips When Your Hair Starts Growing Back • Scarves and Hats • Top 5 Tips for Wearing Scarves and Hats • More Hair • Top 5 Tips for the Growing-Out Stage

7. Radiation

• Planning and Plotting • Top 5 Tips for the First Radiation Appointment • Preheat • Bake • The Afterburn • Top 5 Tips for Protecting Your Skin During Radiation

8. How “Normal” Is the New Normal?

• Top 5 Tips for Dealing with People • Dealing with Your Self-Image • Top 5 Tips for Dealing with Your Self-Image • Dealing with Others’ Images of You

9. Sex, Drugs, and No More Rock and Roll

• Top 5 Tips for Handling All the Medications • Sex • Top 5 Tips for Sex and the New You • Partners and Caregivers • Top 5 Tips for Helping Your Caregiver • No More Rock and Roll • Top 1 Tip for Dealing with Cancer Girl

10. the End of Treatment

• Chemo Brain • Continuing Treatments • Scar Tissue • Why Doesn’t He Call? • Looking Forward • October • Fear of Dying • Top 5 Tips for Getting on with Your Life

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