How To Heal: A Poem About Grief Following Mastectomy
I'm re-posting this poem I wrote last March. April is National Poetry Month. When I first wrote this poem, I had been trying for a while to summarize my grief and emotional healing process following a unilateral mastectomy surgery. Losing a breast was hard. I chose not to have reconstruction, so I'm flat on one side. Looking back, I know that writing poetry, and journaling, was a big part of how I learned to overcome my grief. Now it's been almost two and a half years since I lost my breast, and I can honestly say that I love myself more now and feel closer to whole than I have ever been (including before having breast cancer). It's hard to share something so personal, but it is my hope that by sharing it, I might help someone else who has gone through the same experience. Just know that it will be OK. And that you are beautiful. Love, Christine How To Heal They said I would be OK If they carved o...
