Surgery Scheduled!!!

I just love this. I think I should have it printed on a shirt or something.


I only have 4 more days left of radiation!! I am so excited that will be over. Everything is looking great there. No real obvious changes to the skin.

I hope this is not too much info, but you know me. Brian said everyone might not want the gory details ,if that is so, only read the next sentence and then move on to the next paragraph. I met with the plastic surgeon (Dr Heistein) yesterday and it looks like I will have surgery on September the 18th. It will be more than I thought. I thought, take the old ones off and put new ones on. Well, because I had radiation there is more to it. Evidently radiation makes the muscle scar and it looses its elasticity. So he is going to have to put in a new muscle from my lower back. Even though the muscle is fine on the other side he is going to put a back muscle there too. Because they are different muscles it would make the boobs appear different. Since I am going to all this trouble I sure want them to be the same. Then he will put in expander's to stretch the muscles. I will go back every week for him to put fluid in the expander's until they are the size I want. Once they are the right size he won't do anything for two months to let the muscles stretch and shape. At that time I will have another surgery to take the expander's out and put my new permanent boobs in. Because I am having the mastectomy and surgery done at the same time they are able to save 90% of my skin. So that is really good. I will however loose my nipples because that is where the milk ducts go through so I will have to have new ones added after I have my permanent boobs. They are also going to take out the port. What a day that will be. The surgery will be at Harris Methodist Southlake and I will be in the hospital for two days. I will see him on Sept 17th for pre op to get marked up for surgery.

I see Dr Brian, my other surgeon, on August 17th. Then I am of until September 3rd. Unless something changes. On September 3rd I will have another CAT scan. I will meet with Dr Crim on September 8th. The kids dentist is September 14th and I will be back for pre op on the 17th. Wow, that is why we are having a vacation the last week of August. We are taking the kids to Port Aransas. They just love the beach and we need a vacation.

I guess that is it for now.