Amanda Returns Post Surgery: Here’s What She Wants You To Know

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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316. Amanda Returns Post Surgery: Here’s What She Wants You To Know Amanda returns nine days post surgery to share more about the process of finding a surgeon, the importance of seeking multiple medical opinions, the critical elements of preparing for surgery, and how she’s recovering so far. This episode is full of insights and tips for those going through a breast cancer diagnosis or those who love someone who is going through one. As you listen, please note that the hosts are not medical professionals, but only sharing their own personal experience. For any medical advice, please consult with your doctor. Discover: -Amanda, Glennon and Abby’s three must-have tips to handle doctors appointments; -Some important things Amanda found out about mastectomies and female pleasure, and why it is important to bring it up to your doctor; and -An emotional moment Amanda had while finding a surgeon and how Glennon and Abby helped her through it. To hear the first two episodes about Amanda’s diagnosis, listen at the links below: -Episode 309 Amanda’s Diagnosis and What’s Next (Pt. 1) -Episode 310: Amanda’s Diagnosis and What’s Next (Pt. 2)

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0:00.0	Welcome, you do it. You do it. No, I did it last time, it was not that great. I thought it. You do it.
0:13.0	No, I did it last time, it was not that great.
0:15.0	I thought it was great.
0:16.0	I'll do it, I deserve to do it.
0:17.0	You deserve to do it.
0:18.0	You of all people.
0:20.0	Welcome back. It's a joy to say. Welcome back to We Can Do Her Thanks.
0:28.0	Why is it a joy, sissy?
0:29.7	It's a joy because I've been just army crawling and by that I mean not crawling at all
0:37.4	army sitting my way through the past little bit and now I feel really good and I'm just so
0:46.2	happy to be back in the saddle with the Pot Squad and y'all.
0:50.1	Okay so give us a timeline like where are we in your process?
0:54.0	Just in case people haven't listened to the previous episodes, which they shall.
0:57.5	Okay, so we did a couple of episodes, a couple of weeks ago, we'll put it in the show notes where we announced that I
1:07.1	had received a diagnosis of breast cancer they are episodes 309 and 310, so you can listen to those.
1:14.2	And when we did that, it was, gosh, that was like three weeks
1:18.2	after I had learned about the diagnosis.
1:21.4	It was really fresh.
1:22.4	It was just three days after I had told anyone about it and then I think
1:26.7	about a week before the surgery and the surgery was a bilateral, which means both.
1:35.3	Mesectomy, so both of the breasts were removed
1:40.0	and what we did was, went direct to reconstruction and we can talk about what all of that means.
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