Life after mastectomy

Thanks to the progress made in the last decade in the treatment and early diagnosis of breast cancer, thousands of women live after the operation, more than 5 years. Statistics in oncology provides a five-year survival milestone, when the most likely to relapse. A woman who lived more than 5 years old, is considered to be reformed.

Unfortunately, awareness of diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer are accompanied by high levels of suffering women. Once the diagnosis is developed severe psychological stress, the majority of women in a state of duality. On the one hand, it must go through a difficult treatment and postpone excision (removal of breasts), but stay alive, despite the implications for work and family life on the other - can not come to terms with an operation that turns you into "a monster". Sometimes this leads to the disintegration of the family if the husband or loved one is not so strong in spirit and surrender to a difficult situation at a time when women are especially needed their love and support.

After surgery and other treatments, at home, a woman with a "sick" and hand suture in place of the breast, weak, lacking the capacity to perform many household chores, it overtakes the second trauma, herpes, as it seems all hope to return to his former life . Oncologists call this situation a psychological collapse, as the transferred mastoektomiya "knocks out" the majority of women from the usual public and social environment and leads to serious changes in their mentality and way of life. This crisis requires changing attitudes, reviewing the woman of his attitude to the world, words and deeds, family and acquaintances.

Help women cope with these difficulties - the main task of physicians, friends, family, colleagues, because in this period formed a further life of the woman in the family and society. Oncologists believe that the microclimate in the family depends on the ratio of patients to their illness: the smaller the woman dramatize the situation, the greater her chance of getting support from her family. First is to review their old life and try to identify the factors that contributed to the onset of cancer and, if possible, eliminate them.

After surgery, the body having anatomical and physiological disorders, which can lead to a partial disability. The question arises: how to live, live longer, have a happy family, and actively work?

So, what should I do to avoid recurrence of the disease, to improve the body's defenses, to feel good, to work in full force, enjoy life?

To do this:

• change the mode of the day;
• change diet;
• lose weight and to stabilize it;
• engage in exercise therapy;
• learn to take the physical and psycho-emotional overload;
• monitor their appearance;
• doing things you love;
• undergo regular medical examination.

To restore physical energy, strengthen the nervous system must:

• sleep for 7-8 hours at an open window or pane;
• before bedtime take a warm shower, sending a jet of water in the first place on the sore spots;
• sick in bed, put his hand on the pillow, that the hand was on the rise (it normalizes the circulation of lymph and its drainage);
• sleep on their backs or on the side opposite the operated side, so that their weight during sleep do not squeeze the hand of the vessels operated seats;
• If you experience pain shoot nature of the operation, hands, nadplechevoy area should see a doctor (this may