Reeka's blog: "Cancer stuffs"

I went back to my plastic surgeon today.  He agreed that my skin had healed enough to resume attempts to do tissue expansion on my left breast.  Following that, his nurse did a session of expansion, so now I'm sore as heck as an extra 90cc's of saline was added to push out my pectoral muscle and skin.

The most unfortunate thing is that since it's now been nearly 4 months since my mastectomy, I now have feeling in the area of the breast where they have to put the needle into the tissue expander port.  So... OUCH!!!!  Next week I definitely will be taking painkillers before I go in.

But all in all, I'm glad to have the process going again.  If my skin / muscle turn out not to respond well after the radiation, they will need to take a graft of skin & fat from my back to use as the breast skin, with an implant behind it.  *crosses my fingers that won't have to happen*