Tissue expanders and reconstruction
Just wondering if anyone out there has recently been through tissue expansion and reconstruction. I had a mastectomy a year ago, and in November, due to the fear of the cancer recurring, underwent a ...
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Hi Julie
Thanks for sharing. At this stage I am looking down and thinking OMG, really, is this it? So I guess , athough no one wants to go through more surgery it is good to know some things are 'fixable'. I think I had a very simplistic view of the second stage, I heard the the surgeon said about it originally but at that point I was focussed on getting rid of the 5cm tumour and not having breast cancer, waiting for pathology results etc. So I have realised it is all way more complicated and although you get warned about possible problems it doesn't actually seem real until you come home after the surgery. I am confident in the PS and his nurses are great so i am just going to hang in there, literally, well more like swish in there, and wait the 3-6 month until they are all settled.