ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Rewritten Me is Australia’s podcast dedicated to reconstruction after mastectomy, created and hosted by award-winning patient advocate Luan Lawrenson-Woods.
Made in Australia and listened to by people around the world, Rewritten Me supports people making decisions about breast reconstruction, understanding their options, and finding practical support before and after surgery.
Through conversations with breast and reconstructive surgeons, healthcare professionals, allied health experts and people with lived experience, the podcast explores reconstruction options, recovery, scars, lymphoedema, exercise, emotional wellbeing, body image, cost, access, consent and informed decision-making.
Rewritten Me is here to help you ask better questions, understand your options, feel more confident having a say in your care, and decide how you rewrite your story.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 35 days
Average audio length:
48 minutes
Guest interviews
English
Australia
45 episodes
since Dec. 18, 2022
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Mastectomy and breast reconstruction can change more than how your body looks. And it can be complex.
How can you prepare for changes to sensation, function, identity and the way you feel in your body?
Luan is joined by body-image researcher Dr Helena Lewis-Smith to explore the emotional adjustment…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
If you’re having breast surgery or reconstruction through Australia’s public health system, what are you entitled to as a public patient, and what should you know before agreeing to use your private health insurance?
Luan is joined by Dr Margaret Faux, one of Australia’s leading experts on Medicare…
Scars after breast surgery can bring up fear and a lot of questions.
What should they feel like? When can we touch them? And how do you know what’s normal?
Luan speaks with Shannon Chandler, a remedial massage therapist with more than 18 years specialising in post-operative recovery, about scar car…
What can you eat to help support healing after breast reconstruction surgery?
Originally recorded in 2023, this episode returns as a Rewritten Rewind as part of the Before and After Breast Reconstruction mini-series.
Luan talks with nutritionist Associate Professor Teresa Mitchell-Paterson about fo…
What movement can you do to prepare for breast cancer surgery, and what may help once you leave hospital?
Luan speaks with Anna-Louise Bradley, senior exercise physiologist, about exercise before and after mastectomy and breast reconstruction.
In this episode we talk about:
•what an exercise physio…
DIEP flap breast reconstruction is often the own-tissue option people hear most about. But what happens when it isn’t suitable for you?
Associate Professor Bish Soliman, who specialises in reconstructive plastic surgery, explains PAP flap reconstruction and where it may fit among the options availa…
Elle is waiting for a date for her risk-reducing mastectomy and PAP flap reconstruction through the public health system.
Without knowing when surgery will happen, preparing means keeping work, family support, her home and recovery plans on standby.
In Part 2 of her story, Elle shares the practical…
After a breast cancer diagnosis in 2020, followed by a single mastectomy and DIEP flap reconstruction, Elle thought her next surgery would be a revision.
Then updated genetic testing revealed a CHEK2 pathogenic variant and changed the decision in front of her.
In Part 1, Elle shares how she decided…
Why do we share our most personal experiences, and what do we hope those stories give somebody else?
Four women featured in Conquering Breast Cancer join Luan to talk about why they chose to share theirs.
Rewritten Me was always going to come back. The release of this Australian documentary felt li…
Rewritten Me is back!
Australia’s podcast dedicated to supporting people having reconstruction after mastectomy returns with a new mini-series looking at the before and after realities of breast reconstruction.
Here’s a short sneak peek at what to expect.
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