With my breast reconstruction I had a TRAM flap procedure which is basically where they take abdominal tissue and muscles and take them from the tummy and make you new girls with them. I am finally healed from the surgery and I have started noticing that something may not be quite right. Have you ever played with play dough and you push your finger in and it sinks? Well this is starting to happen with my new girls. I am realizing that something is wrong and I was getting concerned when we pushed on my girls I would get the same indentation that I would get with play dough.
I called the plastic surgeon and told the nurse I had play dough boobs and she got me right in. Maybe I should have assumed that if something could go wrong with me it would. I mean first I get cancer and then 5 surgeries to close the wound and now I have something else going wrong.
Well the surgeon agreed that the breast were developing a problem. It felt that the tissue was not getting enough blood supply and they were developing necrosis. Basically the tissue was starting to die and I did know there was a small 2% chance that this could happen. Awesome I know so I am going to have another surgery and going to get another set of girls.
Technically this next surgery was going to be my send mastectomies. Now that this tissue was dying I was going to have to get implants. I really did not want implants because they have to be replaced every so many years and that meant a lifetime more of surgery. Seeing as I did not want to lose the girls altogether I agreed to saline implants.
We have the surgery scheduled for the following week to remove the dead tissue and add implants to my body. I am really not looking forward to it but I really don’t have a choice.