A question about Angelina Jolie and Double Mastectomies

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29. Ms Toad, up wards of this in response ten,

She mentions how one of her relative's mastectomy's was an easy peasy thing to recuperate from, while the other one was more problematic.

It could all be about how the surgeon deals with the neural network that lies connected to the tissue being removed. (I am speculating here.) Or perhaps it has to do with the way a person's nerves are laid out. people do differin basic physiology - just as someone may be more naturally muscular than another person, someone else may be more "nervey."

I know i have to have double pain meds for even minor tooth work - my nerves near my teeth and gums are exceptionally keen to respond to pain, and extend beyond the places where dentists expect them to be. I have above average tolerance to pain in most of the rest of my body, though.