About Pink Pockets
Diane Ungues Lebel developed Pink Pockets after a bilateral mastectomy for breast cancer in January 2009. For years, Pink Pockets’s nurses and patients have used safety pins to attach surgical drainage tubes to hospital gowns and clothing after mastectomies and other breast surgeries. It's a fact of life, and it's a really uncomfortable fact, and there are many other ways that breast cancer survivors or other medical practitioners have devised to solve their patients' real problems. But most of these solutions are expensive -- special dresses and shirts with sewn pockets start at $30 and go up to $80. On average, surgical drainage usually takes ten days to two weeks, and dealing with these extra "attachments" can be painful and problematic.