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Now I Need Another Surgery

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 … Continue reading →

Another Surgery

Today is a big day for me, the JP Drains that I have had in for the last month are finally coming out. I have had them there since my TRAM Flap Reconstruction and the plastic surgeon is going to permanently removing the bandages. I was very happy to finally be bandage and drain free. When the doctor removed the bandages it was better than the first day except for the fact that one area on one of the “girls” still looked a little open. The surgeon said not to worry just come back in a week and we will … Continue reading →

Finally I Go Home

I had my reconstruction surgery on February 2, 2007 and I was supposed to be home in five days. Here it is day 10 post-surgery and I am still in the hospital. I should have been home 5 days ago but my developing pneumonia was something that was out of my control. The pneumonia is gone and my lab work looks great so I am finally getting discharged. Before my surgeon would let me go home I had to look at the incisions. I don’t know why I was perfectly fine not looking but if I had to I would … Continue reading →

Pneumonia Great

Did you know that when you are in the hospital as a patient and you see your own personal physician in the halls he is not allowed to come in your room unless you request? I did not either but that is what I found out when I saw my primary care doctor in the halls on the third night post-surgery. I asked him to come in because I was not feeling all that great. They gave me a blood transfusion earlier in the day but that was not the problem. I felt like I was developing bronchitis or pneumonia. … Continue reading →

Day Two Post-Surgery

Have you ever noticed how you really cannot get any rest in the hospital? I swear someone was in my room every hour poking, prodding, check my bandages it was insane. So I survived the surgery and the first day post-surgery but I had always known the second day after surgery is always the worst for pain. So my plastic surgeon wants me to get up and walk today. I am really not looking forward to this. SO I get woken up early with the shift change and then about 8 they bring in some breakfast, by this time it … Continue reading →

Day One Post Surgery

The day of my surgery was a total blur to me, when I woke up the first thing I did was check to make sure the doctors gave me my new “girls”. I knew that was the plan but I worried that when the surgery got going they would have found more cancer and therefor they would not be able to do the reconstruction. I was very relieved when I felt these two bandaged bumps. Now I could not sit up because they did cut my abdomen from hip to hip but from where I was looking I looked more … Continue reading →

Surgery Day Part One

Today is the day of my prophylactic bilateral mastectomies and TRAM flap reconstruction. I had already explained to my three little kids the best that I could why Mommy was going to be in the hospital. I explained that Mommy had Boo- Boo Boobies and the doctor was going to give me knew ones that had no Boo-Boos’. It was just the basics but it was enough for them. I kissed them all while they slept and my husband and I quietly left the kids in my mom’s care. She was going to bring them to daycare once they opened, … Continue reading →