Too fat for reconstruction?
I recently had a visit with the specialist GP assigned to me at the hospital where I've been having treatment. I had a mastectomy last June. We started discussing whether or not I'd be interested in ...
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Hi Linda
Thank you for your message. I'm glad you were able to get the surgery done. Have you had your treatment done privately? They didn't even mention me having immediate reconstruction, but it may have been because of the nature of my cancer. Who knows. I have been going public, so maybe that has some impact on it. I just wish these issues would have been told to me in the beginning, instead of giving me what may in the end be false hope. I know it's overwhelming for us at first, but some important things need to be told. I was quite fit before my diagnosis, playing regular golf myself and caddying for my pro husband. I hope that I get an understanding plastic surgeon when I'm finally referred. I also hope that having radiation will not stop me from having reconstruction. Otherwise I'll ask them to cut the other one off to balance me! I don't like the prospect of prosthesis's the rest of my life. Just too uncomfortable and hot in our climate.
All the best for your ongoing recovery.
Cheers Helen