Transition, Year 3

Month 01

Mastectomy

• Get initial appointment with surgeon who will do mastectomy. You will have to remove your shirt for the examination.
• Ask your partner to go with you to provide support, but don’t ask your mother unless she is an exceptional person.

Grow a moustache (of sorts).

Consider dieting to remove a few of the pounds you have put on.

Month 06

Go into hospital for mastectomy

You will be off work for around 2 weeks, depending upon heaviness of job.

Cut down or stop smoking for the operation and for several months afterwards to maximise bloodflow to nipples.

Grow your first real beard.