MAKING A DECISION
Well, after reading a lot of posts on this site, I am starting to lean towards going with the DIEP Reconstruction. I was thinking this is not the way to go for me last week .. but now Im starting to ...
Forum Discussion
hi and thank you to both of you for your comments.
I had a really bad day yesterday .. emotional, overwhelming and every other emotion to go with it.
I had the Midwifery Interview yesterday morning and this starts next Feb 2017 but as my head and thoughts were not really together I just hope I did ok to get me through.
That is where everything after that changed. I have cancelled the plastics appointment for this afternoon. I was advised that this Dr did not do the DIEP and the only Dr who does it is in Sydney CBD and I might not get in soon so my Mastectomy would be put back ... not wanting that. I am not going to have the expander put in either. Financially this will literally break me as I will have to pay each week to have the expander filled and at $165 per visit that is not feasible for me. I have spoken to my MBCN and she advised me to go back to step one and get the mastectomy but wait till my healing is done then consider reconstruction as she said.. "if I did happen to get an infection" not that I think it will happen but it might.. I would lose the expander and be back to square one again. So im going to do that. I have also asked to see a Councillor as I have been trying to do all this on my own and not sure of my feelings at this time. I cant think straight and every waking minute it is in my head. It is driving me nuts.
Since making the decision yesterday, my Surgeon now wants to see me tomorrow morning and put the papers in for my op on July 25th. Looks like it is all go now.
From May 30th to July 25th will be 8 weeks since this horrid journey begun ... and not knowing where the journey will take me is the unnerving part. There better be a rainbow at the end of this Journey.