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Sandy, That would be Tina337....Thank you for thinking of me, I have been in touch with her....
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Karen9516,
What type and size of implants are you getting? I had the nipple and skin sparing PBM as well. My PS said I won't even have the projection I have with the TE's. I'm going to be really upset if they are not the same size I started with. It all may be due to nipple position- maybe I should not have saved them to begin with.
My prayers are with you on your exchange- keep us posted on how you do.
Lois
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qutypy what I would do was write my questions down so I won't forget them and even tried to write down the answers also. If you want to be a full C I would suggest to ask him to fill you to a D so when your a C you have some giggle. I only had 60cc puit in at the time of surgery when I read of gals that had 200-300 it make me cringe thinking ouch. I would suggest at your next appountment ask him what the size and dimensions of your expanders are and make your implants are close to that. I've heard some gals say their PS did lypo to help with hollow spots I think it sound great just to get rid of fat and have insurance pay for it lol.
Cathee I'm happy to hear your liking your boobs better. I checked the mentor web site and their Mod profile 800cc are 16.5 by 5.1 which is close to what you already have and their HP 800cc are 15.5 by 6.0 better projection but not as wide : ( Come here and whine away or share what ever you want : - )
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Vinogal,
Good luck tomorrow. Nobody likes those darn expanders but they do their job!!! I wish you nothing but the best.Let us know how you are doing so we can help and support you.
xxoo Kathie
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Karen 9516....don't want to leave you out on the good wishes. You're not up on the board but I saw your post so good luck with your exchange. What are you getting? Heehee.....I sound like a kid asking her frind what she's getting for Christmas!!!
xo Kathie
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Pam - I loved your imagine of the TE (testicular expander) and leg sewing. Though I actually love my PS and she is a woman to boot.
Susan - WHERE do you live? Gardening already? There is a quite a bit of snow on the ground here, gardening is only a pleasurable memory!
Joanne - Best wishes w/ those fills, you will keep getting stronger and feeling better each day!
Sandy - Nipple surgery plans? Congratulations!! You must be psyched! And your outdoor adventures sound great!
Elaine - I may stop by for that bottle of wine. Actually, we all should stop by - wouldn't that be a ball?!? We could toast each one of us just prior to surgery or treatment. Though we may be continually drunk!
Laura - I am glad that taxes are getting behind you, fortunately that is my dh's job. I don't think I could stand it if I had to do them too. And I can relate to work issues, at least I could last fall. Take care my dear!
Linda - We could have quite a bonfire - burn all of our TE's and our surgical bras. I have a lovely pond w/ a fire pit near by, you are all welcome here. Bring your fire supplies and a bottle of wine and we can toast them goodbye. Thanks for the image!
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Cathee - I am glad that you are feeling better and you are totally welcome to let it all out here. BTW: My good friend was also Arimedex and she totally went to pieces all the time. As she said, she could cry over trying to decide what size to cut a piece of cake. I think that could certainly explain how you feel!
Karen9516 - You are not listed yet? What date and what type of exchange do you have planned and we will list you!
Best wishes to all of our sisters w/ surgery planned this week:
3/2 - Vinogal - TE's reinserted
3/3 - Fairy49 - Exchange
3/3 - Psalmist - Exchange to high profile 425 to 460 implant - silicone
3/4 - Cindysnewfoobs - Exchange to high profile 500cc silicone implants
3/4 - Bukki - Exchange to silicone
3/6 - HuneyB2 - Exchange to Mentor silicone gel-filled implants
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Hi all
First day back to work tomorrow, Going back 20 hours and I won't be seeing patients but there's alot of paperwork to do. We also got a grant for a dog therapy program so I'll be training a select few volunteers who have therapy trained dogs to visit my patients.
I'm kind of scared so I thought I'd post. I feel like I'm starting a new job. Most people know at work and I went in last week to drop off some paperwork so the OMG....your boobs look great comments are over and done with....probably not but at least some are over.
I've been out since 11/20/08...started out that day with bilateral ooph and tubes and ended up with bilateral mastectomy with TE. So it feels strange. I know...A. I should be glad I'm able to go back to work and B. I should be glad I have a job. I'll only be back 17 days then I have my exchange.
Oh....I don't know...Woke up in one of those moods.......thanks for listening!!!
xxoo Kathie
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Sam1991/Kathie
this is what we are here for to come and share what evers on your mind
I'm glad to hear your trying it 20 hours a week that's what I did when I went back for the 1st week or 2 than went full time. It really helped to ease into it. With my exchange I was only off 3 days but if you do a lot of lifting see if PS will give you two weeks. I know when I went back I did way more than I should have. I'm always bad asking for help. But as you can tell I enjoy giving it : - )
well I better get my bike rack on my car and bike ready if I'm meeting my friends later
Have a great Sunday everyone : - )
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just me again...
I just checked it's only suppose to be 19 degrees with a wind chill of 7 - 9 degrees
am I crazy to go biking
oh well I guess I better cover up most my skin from the way this sound
no bike shorts needed today : - )
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JEAN --That is so funny about the piece of cake. I read it to my hubby and he said "That's so you!" But then followed it up with (after he saw my face) but you are getting better. LOL
KATHIE - I have two therapy dogs...standard poodles...www.BarkAvePoodles.com I am taking them both to Texas with me and hope to join the Heart of Texas therapy group.
Sandy Sunshine -- OF COURSE you should go ride your bike. Meeting up with friends and spending the day together ****PRICELESS***
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Kathie - I know how you are feeling. My medical leave was extended because my PS was concerned about me having to look for work while I recover. I decided to try my hand at self employment, so I am not really "going back to work" - but I am going to start working next week. I have been off since mid December. Kind of a scary thing to be returning to. I think it will be easier after we get started! Best wishes!
Sandy - It is around the same temperature here and I am not going biking. I will be going for a long walk though. Stay warm and have fun!
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Kathie.. I totally get you ! It is hard going back.. weird too! You will do it though. It will be just fine after just a little while....
.. What is it you do.. I missed that. Sounds like you are around a lot of people though... that is like my career..and as I feared all the looks and wonders.. it is working out just fine, and it has been 2 weeks back for me... Sandy... YES I think your nuts... 19 degrees... you are hard core lady... ( thus the figure you have...).....
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Morning ladies!! Don't want to make you tooooo jealous but its a fabulous 75degrees here in beautiful Newport Beach today (where I am working) it is quite amazing, or it maybe that I just feel extremely grateful so it just seems that way, I am annoying people this morning with my perkiness LOL!!!
Kathie! good luck at work tomorrow, its weird going back thats for sure, but it actually helped me try and get back to "normal" somewhat, but don't push yourself!
Rockwell! for sure go on your bike, you are so not crazy!! how fun!
Mykidsmom! enjoy your walk! Are we not all so lucky that we can ride a bike and walk and work!! I feel very blessed!!
Jax! good luck with the TE reinsertion
Psalmist! Good luck for Tuesday, be right there with you! I will PM you later in the day to see how you are doing!
I am wishing for two boobs LOL!! but if not, so be it! patience is a virtue!
Love you ladies so much!
Lorraine ox
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Yes, I am watching the sailboats out on the bay today - fifteen miles from where Lorraine lives - sunny and warm - in the mid 70's. Sandy, if WE had temperatures of below 40 degrees here in So. Cal., we would be paralyzed! I cannot imagine "19"! We are such little weanies here - we would be housebound at 30 degrees, much less 19!!
Kathie: I know how you feel about returning to work - to be around people who have not seen you since your surgery. It is that "I am an alien" sensation - the feeling that people see you differently somehow....as if you have to identify a new "normal." I don't know, but I suppose this is why it is so comforting coming here, to these forums, where it is like "Cheers" - where you feel the same as everyone else....
Deborah
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whippetmom! I didn't realize you were so close!! by Belmont Shores right? LOVE it down your way! We HAVE to have coffee one of these days!!
Lorraine ox
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Lorraine - Yes - right next to Belmont Shore. I would love to meet you for coffee!
Deborah
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yay!! I am having my exchange on Tuesday, so I will see how I feel next week (going to be off work for a few days, ok, 2 weeks LOL!!) so we can figure something out! have a great day! your dx looks the same as mine, you were dx;d two weeks after me.....
Lox
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Sounds good to me! I am going to San Diego next weekend for a few days to help take care of my sister, who is having her prophylactic BLM on 3/6. So we could either meet before I leave or when I get back. You will be in my prayers for your exchange on Tuesday!!! We are praying that you are going to get TWO, TWO, TWO implants!
Deborah
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sounds good! and thank you so much for the prayers! Prayers are with your sister!
Lorraine ox
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Had a great church service this morning - very encouraging! Just what I need to rev up my engines and get me ready for this "little surgery" coming up on Tuesday. Fairy, I would bet you can meet Whippetmom for coffee by Friday. With BOTH new boobs. Wishing you all the best.
LOTS to do... trying the get laundry and housework done before I go in. Instead I'm reading the boards...
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Thank you all so much for your support. It feels so safe here. I guess that's what some of what I'm feeling is...a little unsafe and out of my element. We're supposed to get 8 inches of snow starting tonight and into tomorrow. I feel like a kid hoping for a snow day. Everyone is saying...oh don't come in if the weather is bad. I could easily take them up on the excuse...but who am I kidding...I've lived and played in New England all my life.
Laura..you asked what I do. I'm an RN and I run a hospice program. Even though I'm the administrator, I still see patients all the time. I usually do the admissions because I like my folks to know the face behind the voice when they call the office for something. We go out to patients homes, nursing homes, assisted living facilities...basically we go anywhere they call home. I've even had a couple of homeless patients on hospice.
So I think that's another thing. Getting back into the end of life thing again. I also was the caregiver for my best friend(45 yo) who died of AIDS 18 days before my first surgery.We were friends for 27 years.He came onto our hospice a couple of months before he died. We used to joke that I could probably care for him after the hys/ooph but he really had to move along before the mastectomy. He died Nov. 8th bless his heart. I cared for him every day until he died. Thankfully he was able to say he lived a good life, but in the end, it was just the 2 of us. He had no family and pushed all his other friends away. So it was difficult at times because there was no one else to help me care for him. Got a little crazy at the end but we did it and he was at home where he wanted to be.
Oh boy...there I go again...haven't really had time to grieve for my loss of him yet. Too busy with the loss of all my girlie parts.
Again...thanks for listening. Will venture out of my safe haven tomorrow rain, snow or shine. If you all can give me a mental push I'd appreciate it.
xxoo Kathie
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sam1991-I am getting allergan cohesive gel I don't know the size. She will put a saline measure device in there before to make sure she uses a big enough implant.
lopalermo- Why can't your surgeon get the projection you want. I don't understand. He can always do a revision on your nipples later if it doesn't look right.
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oh my goodness Kathie! I had no idea, I am bawling right now, you poor thing!! You have had no time to grieve for him!
You know what I have been thinking about since reading Kathie's post, I don't think any of us, at least not me, have had time to grieve for ourselves and the loss of part of us, we are diagnosed, have to go straight into treatment decisions and its a whirlwind. I have been a little emotional the past few days - damn friggin estrogen! and I think that is why, we need to give ourselves a break and just breath....
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I am jealous of Lorraine and Deborah.. and SO HAPPY you get to meet each other at the same time... wahooooo
Kathie.. how sad. That is too much at one time. I hope he passed with no pain. I am sorry!
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Kathie....I don't know how you do it. It takes a special person with a GIFT and I mean GIFT to work in the hospice field. My mother was on hospice and what a blessing those hospice nurses were to her and to my sister and me...
Yes, and Lorraine and I could probably have a Show and Tell - right in the middle of Starbucks!
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Afternoon everyone... day 3 after my exchange (with revisions) and a little ouchy today... probably did a bit too much in the garden yesterday ... so I'm taking it easy today - parked on the sofa watching a marathon of Ax Men (my son's a tree guy - I watch this show and thank God he stays local and private), and knitting a hippie poncho for our youngest daughter (shes in a cute phase - 24, porcelain complexion, and blond dreadlocks! she'll be adorable in this long chunky knit poncho) and catching up on the chat...
My prayers are with you VinoGal and Karen9516 - my only advise is ask what your PS is planning on putting in you (size and gel/saline) before surgery to make sure you are getting what you expect and what you asked for!
Laura - you crack my up... my kinda gal! Nards in a twist for pain pills... sounds like a hostage situation to me... LOL... hope those taxes are going easy and fast!
Qutypy - I was a 36DD before my mastectomy, initially was willing to accept being a D but the expander process was too painful for me - I quit at 530cc in a 500 TE. I was supposed to have 500 implants put in but PS ordered the wrong size and I got 469's instead so my advise is keep a running note pad and write everything down to ask AND communicate to him. If I had it to do over I would have given the PS a big note with my desired implant size and style written rather than leaving it to verbal communication (can you tell I'm still mad - 3 days later - ohh us redheads sometimes take awhile to cool off).
I also had (and still have) hollows in my chest above my foobs. Both PS and surgeon said it is my anatomy - the way my chest wall is shaped. Both said if I lost some weight (I'm 5'5 and weigh a buck fifty) they would be less noticeable. Right now they are swollen from my exchange surgery so they don't show as much as they did but I expect them to return as the swelling goes down.
Cathee good to hear you are feeling better about the foobs. I'm trying to refrain from having expectations - seems like everyone says they are disappointing at first glance after bandages are removed.
MyKidsMom I'm in Oregon 10 minutes south of Portland. Was 50 here yesterday with a little blue peeking through low clouds. It was a perfect day to clean up from winter, transplant and start to prep for vegetable beds. Basically get in some good gardening therapy. But that was yesterday - today it is back to normal Oregon rain.
Sam1991 Thinking you you on your first day back! You probably will be the center of attention for a little while - its our human nature. It will pass. Just take it easy and take care of yourself - expecially with the loss of someone so dear so soon. Excuse yourself and find some private quiet time if you need it.
Rockwell_girl I'm jealous! your bike riding already! How awesome!!! Have a blast and I'll enjoy vicariously through you :-) (my reach isn't quite there yet... but soon... very soon... )
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Oh Lorraine....You are becoming quite the girl to meet...LOL I'm just glad I can say...I remember you when you only had expanders!!!! Hopefully we will be back in your neck of the woods taking Sam to college. He is definitely leaning towards Chapman. I'll call you tomorrow night honey. I was going to tonight but you can tell I'm whiney today.
Thanks all for your sweet support.
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LOL!! well Kathie and I did, big ole show and tell!! but it was in American Apparel!! Lord only know what everyone was thinking!
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Good luck ladies going in for their Exchanges this week - Vinogal, Fairy, Psalmist, Cindysnewfoobs, Bukki, and HuneyB2. I had my Exchange on Thursday and it wasn't too bad, especially since mine is a single mx with exchange. It still gives me one good arm to use. I'm suppose to be going in tomorrow for the big unveiling but we are suppose to be getting 10 inches of snow tonight. Now I know that's not a lot of snow for Sandy out in Iowa & others here on these boards, but I can tell you in MD & DC things pretty much come to halt with that much snow! I may just have to peak for myself tomorrow and see how the new girl looks!
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