Sensation Restored: Breast Resensation Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe breast resensation, the nerve repair some surgeons now offer during or after reconstruction following mastectomy. Many came to it through breast cancer; others had preventive surgery because of a BRCA1 gene change. The writers include a hairstylist working beside hot dryers all day, a firefighter in Edmonton who needed to feel heat, a tamale seller who never felt an oil splatter, a ski patroller, a swimming coach, a hospice chaplain, a retired school cook of seventy-six and a new mother holding her four-month-old. They write from Columbus to Cape Town, Pune to Newfoundland. The stories cover DIEP flaps, nerve grafts taken from the leg, filament tests and research studies, flights to a surgeon in another province, quitting forty years of cigarettes, paying out of pocket after insurance refused, and asking until someone said yes. Daily life runs through it all: sauna evenings, Sunday hugs at church, night shifts, a husband on a mine roster. Feeling came back slowly for many, sometimes as electric shocks or itching before anything useful. Outcomes are mixed: some regained a great deal, others got patchy feeling or almost none, one developed a painful neuroma, one lost part of a flap, and one woman explains why she said no.

Who it's for

For anyone weighing nerve repair alongside breast reconstruction, people already living through the slow wait for feeling, and the partners, friends and nurses who sit beside them.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 283 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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