Thank you for everything
All I can say is that my surgery went fine. I wish that I could tell you that I am ending this blog healthy, happy and done with reconstruction. Two out of three isn't bad though.
I am ending this blog completely healthy and completely happy, but I know that my days with my plastic surgeon are not over. However, they are over for now.
I have decided to postpone another surgery till an unknown point in time. The fact is despite my hopes; my skin just did not stretch enough. So, the next option will be to take skin from my back and start all over again. I am just not ready to put my life on hold for another year for a breast. So, I have made the decision to live with it indefinitely.
My life has been on hold for 2 years and I am ready to move on. I am extremely lucky that as of right now, I can move on. I don't want to wait and I am done feeling trapped by cancer. So, I am done with reconstruction for now.
Two years ago, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Two years ago, I started this blog. After all of ups and downs, eight rounds of chemo, a unilateral mastectomy, radiation and two tries at reconstruction, I am leaving cancer and this blog happy and healthy. I could not ask for more. Thank you again for following along. You have no idea what a blessing every comment and uplifting word was to me through it all. Thank you.
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Breast Cancer
Get the double mastectomy, but ask for a skin sparing mastectomy it will really help with the implants
Breast cancer
I just read your story and it is really to bad that none of you doctors told you about a surgery called "skin sparing" mastectomy, where the save the outer layer of your breast skin so that an implant can easily be inserted. More women with breast cancer need to ask about all options of reconstruction before having to go through what you are going through.
Breast Cancer
I want to thank you for all your updates. My wife was diagnosed last June, and I have been following your blog ever since. We are just finishing her sixth, and hopefully last chemo treatment next Monday. We just talked with the surgeon and have another appt with the plastic surgeon next week. This is the part we have been dreading. The doctors all recommend a bilteral mastectomy, which is what we're leaning toward, but it's still hard to grasp what she's in for. Best of Luck and again thanks for your updates.
-Pat
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