@ritalu I found the wound care to be the most burdensome toward mental health (even more-so than 'major' procedures) - and that no one ever prepares you for it! - YOU are brave!! There were moments I'd call my mom on speakerphone for those big scary bandage changes and just cry and cry while I clean and change dressings and drains. I'm 48 and she's 78, but we still need our mommies sometimes! That reminds me I need to check in with my husband for any PTSD from drain-tubes+sponge-baths time. The mental picture I had when I'd hear someone say 'cancer' was shuffling around sadly in one of those hospital gowns and hair-loss. Now I have this snapshot of myself sobbing in the bathtub, sadly clutching those drain tube bulbs while my husband sponge bathes me in inches of bathwater. I can teleport back to that moment exactly and it's just so awful. Being inside the hospitals was the easier part, it's all that stuff at home and daily life impacts that hurt the most. I hope that your healing is coming along nicely. I think another space where our providers tend to fail us is self-care and lifestyle info. I did a lot of research toward what vitamins and supplements and such that I could do to help things along. You'd assume that something so simple as 'stay hydrated' would be smart for our doctors to engage us toward - it could make a world of difference but we don't get that engagement type in consults - it doesn't correlate to a visit code that generates an insurance payment for them, so here we are. Maybe if you go to whole foods/natural grocers/sprouts/etc, some consultations in the vitamin section could be beneficial? (sorry unsolicited advice :D)