Ok , so I've almost completed 6 months of Chemo treatment AC followed by Taxol. Heading for a quick escape to recharge before facing the next stages of treatment, Surgery and Radiation and here's me worrying about being on a plane with a port in my arm!Can one of you lovely ladies please put my silly anxieties at ease and tell me that your arm didn't swell up on the plane and cause your port to explode from your skin! I am usually a pretty intelligent calm person, but here I am worrying about something that I know is really ridiculous but hey there it is. :wink:

Hi Kat, sorry I can't help as don't have a port, but just wanted to say congratulations on finishing chemo. Enjoy your break and please tell us how surgery goes.Lisa xx

Hi @LMK74, thanks I still have 2 more weeks of Taxol to go but can see the finish line now. I hope that you are doing much better on this 2nd hit of AC? My post is a little tongue in cheek and I hope that it makes people smile, of all the things we face it's funny how these weird fears creep into our normally sane heads. I'm sure I'll be posting weird fears about my drain after surgery, another thing causing me anxiousness. Do you have surgery to come also or are you past that hurdle?Kat xx

@Kat09 I have been on lots of flights & my port has not exploded... lol

Kat, I still have surgery too and already feel scared just knowing it's not to far away and wondering if lumpectomy will be an option. Somehow I think it may have to be mastectomy but will have to see. But yes the drains sound gross lol.

Thanks @Cate64, I gathered if it was likely there would be warnings that's the logical part of brain kicking in. I just needed to hear it from someone who'd been there :smiley:

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Rapunzel
Member
8 years ago
Oh yeah, @Kat09 I know how you feel. I kept imagining the cancer lurking in my breast, complete with a little 'face', playing hide and seek with the surgeon....what with that and the feeling that I'm going to glow in the dark after radiotherapy (I know I'm not going to, but it's my overactive imagination again)...well, yes, exploding ports, I see where you're coming from. We can only laugh. :)
Zoffiel
Member
8 years ago
I know @Kat09 :)
Kat09
Member
8 years ago
Hi @Zoffiel, it was a little tongue in cheek and the sane sensible part of brain knows that it's fine. I just laugh at how silly little things pop into our brains sometimes.
Zoffiel
Member
8 years ago
The port won't explode. Neither will your 'foobs' if you end up with them in the end.

There's technical stuff you can look at, but if you are worried about the port, spare a thought for my friend who is going for his first flight with his new stoma.

If this stuff happened the airlines would-be all over it, they'd be making us pay three times the going rate to sit in sealed units in the cargo hold. If that's ever going to be a 'thing' and I'm going to be in a box with those likely to plaster the walls with body fluids, I'm a not going in with the stoma guy. ( Sorry, Gerry)
LMK74
Member
8 years ago
Cate64, sounds like way too much pain to get through lol. I'm am an absolute wuss when it comes to any sort of medical procedures. I admire all you ladies that have been through it. Think I'll just stuff some socks in my bra lol.
Cate64
Member
8 years ago
@Kat09 & @LMK74 i have had 2 mastectomies with immediate reconstructions, done 6 months apart, one was a DIEP Flap Recon (BC BReast) & the other was an S GAP Recon (Prophylactic) ....

Now, they have had to make a couple adjustments to even them up but guess how they did it??? Fat Fill!! yep.... bonus, sucked fat outta my thighs & put it in my boobs.... WINNING!!!
LMK74
Member
8 years ago
Kat, definitely daunting but it is great we have so many ladies here that can help us through. I'm swaying more towards a mastectomy also as I don't want to go through this again. Also great you have your mum for support.
Kat09
Member
8 years ago
@Cate64, I'm glad I have you laughing!! My imagination is ridiculous at times. It would be like a scene out of Alien, we can both have a chuckle when we board our flights :)
Kat09
Member
8 years ago
It is all a bit daunting isn't it Lisa. Thankfully we have this site and the support and advice from the others to get us through. at this stage it also looks as though I will be having a Mastectomy and I feel that's probably the best option for me as I really don't want to go through this again. I don't have a date set for my surgery yet so there is plenty of time to look at options etc. My Mum had a mastectomy 20 years ago so I have great support in her.
Cate64
Member
8 years ago
lol @Kat09 I must admit its not something I had thought of & I have been flying here there & everywhere with mine in my chest!!!!

Can you imagine if it did?? lol, I have to laugh, it'd be like a scene out of Alien :)

I'm sorry to laugh but you have put this vision into my head that now will not leave & I am flying off to Canberra again in a week....