Disappointed
Recycles dryer sheets
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Best Wishes and good luck. Keep us posted.
Heck yeah...that's the ticket!Sounds like a good time for a bubble bath & a margarita !
Another option to discuss with your surgeon: defer reconstruction now (mastectomy only) and reassess in a year or so.Now that I've had a day to process this (brain overload), I am trying to process my options for reconstruction. I will have a meeting with the plastic surgeon on Thursday. I basically have 4 options:.
Another option to discuss with your surgeon: defer reconstruction now (mastectomy only) and reassess in a year or so.
This frees you to decide about reconstruction when you are not in the upheavals of this new diagnosis. Down the road you might proceed with reconstruction or you may not. Not always a good plan, but for some it may be. Just a thought.
Sounds like you are in good hands. Keep the faith - you will do fine.
Another option to discuss with your surgeon: defer reconstruction now (mastectomy only) and reassess in a year or so.
This frees you to decide about reconstruction when you are not in the upheavals of this new diagnosis. Down the road you might proceed with reconstruction or you may not. Not always a good plan, but for some it may be. Just a thought.
Sounds like you are in good hands. Keep the faith - you will do fine.
From an, albeit male, perspective I'd say this is sound advice; for a couple years after my late wife died I thought I was my 'usual self', (which, in my case, may or may not be a good thing ), but in retrospect I was somewhat off balance and it was probably more luck than judgement that I didn't make some bad decisions.Another option to discuss with your surgeon: defer reconstruction now (mastectomy only) and reassess in a year or so.
Uh, uh..............about 8 years ago I felt a lump while showering.....hopped on my bike and cycled to the hospital......doctor, who immediately recognized my fears, told me it was just a subcutaneous cyst, which would, and did, disappear within a couple weeks.And Nemo, guys get breast cancer too, just not so frequently as girls.
Here's a youtube video on this procedure for breast augmentation...
(One of the posted comments beneath the vid is by a lady who had breast cancer and states that she had just had this procedure done the prior day.)
SG - I agree with the OPs comments, there's probably no need to rush into this decision, although it's good to know that there are 'natural' options.
Wishing you a very successful outcome,
omni
SimpleGirl, that is just too much, all at once, for anybody. It is awful when you think you've already gotten the bad news, and then more bad news gets revealed. Like being kicked when you're down.
I can't add anything to the wisdom others have already expressed, but I admire and thank you for sharing everything so candidly and in such detail. We'll be with you as you go through what you must, a step at a time.
Amethyst