Surgical drains play a huge role in the healing process after breast surgery. Fluid ... or mastectomy. You might only have one drain, or you might have five or more drains if you have a bilateral ...

"When breasts are amputated, as in a mastectomy, something’s gone." Keaty underwent bilateral mastectomy operations not once, but twice following her initial breast cancer diagnosis in 2005.

With chest bandages and tubes draining fluid ... drain sites wet,” she said. “So I started working on this shirt. I don’t want one more female after mastectomy to have to wear a plastic ...