Thursday, March 22, 2012

Surgery Number 5 is tomorrow

Since March of 2011 I have had a bilateral mastectomy with tissue expanders placed, an emergency surgery to remove the right expander, a surgery to put in my portacath, 10 rounds of chemotherapy and a surgery to replace my right expander as well as many saline injections into the tissue expanders.  During this time I was on evil steroids and the chemotherapy which caused swelling and weight gain.  After my last chemotherapy in October, my weight quickly dropped and in this process my left expander area up with extra skin.  My boob man, Dr. Streitmann, wants to remove that excess skin to insure my implants will be even, when I get them in 3-4 months.  Anyway, I have that quick cosmetic surgery tomorrow at 11:00am.  I have put my life in Dr. Streitmann's hands enough, that I am confident this is going to go off without a hitch and the recovery will be simple and as easy as he says.  There should be little recovery with this.  No drains and I can shower by Saturday.  Those who have followed my journey, this is nothing compared to the past 12 months.  I am asking my wonderful prayer warriors to keep me in your thoughts and prayers tomorrow to have no complications and a smooth surgery.  Say a prayer for Josh too.  He's such a prince.  I am not nervous at all.  This is part of my reconstruction and as crappy as another surgery sounds, I want my implants to be as perfect as possible!  I will update everyone tomorrow or Saturday!  I am really close to having new TATAS! 

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