Preventive Mastectomy

Hi Chris

I just wrote a post but don't know what happened to it.  I don't think it got posted anyway, I'm such a twit and so hopeless with this sort of thing.   Anyway I just wanted to wish you all the best for the 11th, you must be gearing up for your night in hospital - and thank goodness it's just a night! That's a relief.    My ADH was atypical ductal hyperplasia, a precancerous change in the breast tissue - they cut out a piece from my left breast but a year later hey presto it was back in the right together with some lobular carcinoma in situ (the stage before DCIS, before the cancer forms in the ducts) - which is when I decided to stop messing about and go for the only sensible solution, as you did too.  I think we made the right decision!

I wanted to ask you if you think you will have "proper" nipples or just the coloured 3D tattoo, because I can't make my mind up.  I don't feel comfortable without a support garment even though I don't need one, so I will probably keep wearing my little tank tops after the implant exchange.  There was a doco on ABC2 last night about a lady with 2 sisters all with the BRCA 2 gene, the eldest decided to have the total mastectomy but her younger sisters couldn't decide and were going to naturopaths etc.  She kept her nipples (which I don't think my surgeon would have advised) and I couldn't see any scars at all - remarkable - mine are much more obvious.  They all lived in Perth (I'm going in Feb to Perth after my implant exchange - some of my family live there).      BEST OF LUCK CHRIS, I'll be thinking of you!  Love Sarah