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Marianne, Glad to know your just coming home again...helps the stress levels...especially once you get here
Kristen..team name Frozen Peas...wonderful
Strength and healing to all,
Laura
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Ladies - No time to read and catch up with what I've missed here since Thursday. Had a wonderfully celebratory graduation weekend in gorgeous Mobile. Trying to get back on track and prepare for my surgery on Thursday, plus the NEXT graduation in a week and a half! Sadly, came home to learn our dear dog isn't doing too well.....may have to make that hard decision.....hopefully not this week....
I mostly wanted to wish Lilah the best of luck tomorrow - wishing you an uneventful surgery and happy healing!!!
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Whoohoo Lilah! One more sleep! Rest well my exchange sister and have faith. I can't wait to hear your wonderful news of your new natural!
Marianne, isn't it so exciting? I'm nervous and scared and trying to stay focused. I've got to call the surgi center tomorrow to make sure of my time. I've got only my H (note, the D is missing) He's just not been here much and my daughter doesn't want to be around for the weekend because it's prom and she doesn't have a date. So, she's going to her cousins and my H will probably golf! I think I'll be fine. The doctors say it's a snap and attitude is almost everything. I think I'll do better alone in the quiet anyway. I'm looking forward to it actually.
My PS said he would only go through a portion of my scars...I was just curious about why mine were so long to begin with. I'm happy with their healing though and they're very very thin lines that I think will be fine in the dark
I really really wish I did a lot more research before I had my BMX though....but who has time to research when you're numb and walking around in a complete utter fog? oh well, hind-sight! That's why this board is so great. I don't know how I could have gotten through without everyone at BCO! Sleep well everyone!
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OMG - is this drama ever going to end??? I went to see my BS today for a follow up after surgery. He tells me that my path report is not complete. So, I told him my onco called the pathologist himself on Friday and the path said my nodes and margins were clear. My BS tells me that he doesn't trust verbal reports and will wait to get the written report... He said, "I'm sure everything is okay, but I've been burned in the past..." blah blah blah!! So now he has me worried about the final report. Ughhh... My husband was pi$$sed off to say the least! He could have just waited to see the final path report and tell me if something was wrong. My sister was also very angry by this. The good thing I was on a half percoset (because he was removing my drain), so I was sort of numb by it (now the numbness is wearing off).
I am going to try and stay positive. Now no news is good news, huh? My BS said he would call me once the path report was completed and he reviewed it thoroughly. I think his ego was burned because the onco could get in touch with the path, but he couldn't. My onco had the number readily available on his I Phone!
I hope everyone had a nice Mother's Day!!!
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Lilah: Thinking of you....can't wait to hear how you're doing.
KittyCat: Bless your heart and many, many prayers and gentle hugs.
Val: Nips! Yay!
Working late tomorrow, I'll be thinking of everyone, but may not get to check in......love & hugs to all..
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Lilah..... Your day has come... breathe and feel blessed! I am excited for you !!
I find this odd.
I am 34D. This size fits me best. I have not been professionally fitted. Anyway... I have quite a few friends that are 34D's naturally. I will tell you this... I have NEVER seen one of us on the picture forum ( me included) that look ANYTHING like a natural 34D. We look much smaller.
Deborah, why is this? IMO.. most of us look like Large C's. Can you explain this.
Also... friends that have had augmentation ( I have three) and they are 34D's... Look SO MUCH LARGER than me or anyone I saw in Vegas last year that was wearing D's then... or on the picture forum that are 34 D's??????
THIS confuses me.
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Lilah, Val, Kat, TNgolfer: I hope all your surgeries are successful and you heal quickly!
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Thanks so much ladies! I'm at the hotel with my little travel netbook and checking to find all your well wishes buoys me so! Surgery is at 1 PM tomorrow... can't wait to wake up afterward and hopefully feel no pain.
Laura -- is it possible that all these ladies with natural 34D's should be wearing bigger bras (not properly fitted)? I know that I have met women who looked smaller than me (under clothes anyway) who told me they wore D cup bras and I did not believe it! (I mean me pre-BC).
Kitty - I am so sorry... sounds like torture if you ask me. I can understand why the BS said that but still it's just not fair or nice. I hope you get the paper report soon so this can be settled once and for all. I suspect it will bear out what your ONC said, anyway I hope so and my prayers will focus on that for you.
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kittycat
Your BS is an a$$! If your onco was comfortable with the report, I wouldn't panic. Your BS should have kept his thoughts to himself. I think it has more to do with saving his ego than fact.
Keep rejoicing in your good news. I'm in upstate NY and know that Memorial Sloan Kettering is the place to go. I also heard how wonderful the doctors and staff treat the patience.
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Lilah, Val, Kat, and anyone else close to the home stretch...sweet dreams and sweeter outcomes!!! Can't wait to hear from the other side! deekaay
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Lilah, Can you believe it's really here? You'll be yippee squishy in no time.
Kittycat, that doctor spoke before he should have. No need to worry..It's the ego speaking.
Val, happy outcome.. JUDY
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Lilah, good luck tomorrow ! Yippee Squishy!!!
Laura1, I totally get what you're saying! I am wearing a 34D, but I still don't beleive it, they just don't feel that big to me, compared to what I've always thought a 34D is. .. but Lilah has a point, before myBMX I had a good friend who is huge (probably bigger then a DD) told me she was a C cup, not! She is obviosly wearing the wrong size bra. Anyway, off to dream land!
Paula
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Rebecca!
How are you Sweetie!
I picked up that Chic Shaper from Walgreens... it is one of those tv infomercials now available in stores...
Julie has one and maybe a few others too... It holds my implants in place nicely while I sleep with out a bra...
I am going to see the picture forum...
Kimberly
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EC Ladies, I have a question for those who have had their exchange. I need to know how long the recovery period after exchange surgery will be. I am planning a couple of trips in the summer, and I need to schedule my exchange accordingly. I'm aware that everyone is different, so the more responses, the better. Thanks in advance!
Brenda
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from a day or two up till 2 weeks...It's pretty easy. JUDY
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I found my chic shaper on line -- just google it and look for the best deal. I wore it today and it always cracks me up. Feel like I should be back in the middle ages serving swarthy men steins of beer. Oof-dah!
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Thanks for the chuckle, Maggie. I needed it tonight.
Navy
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Lilah -- so excited for you! Hope all is you feel is relief when you open your eyes. It's so much easier than anything that's come before ... and with better results and comfort. Here's to an easy day and a sweet wake-up. You're in the home stretch. Maggie
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Paula,
Finally got access to photo's. You look mahvelous!!!! Hoping my results are just as nice. Before I had my bilat mx, I watched a mx on the internet. It really is a simple procedure and it made me feel better before going in for mine. Well, running true to form, I surfed the internet and found an implant exchange. I feel so much better about the upcoming procedure. It isn't bloody or gory and I now understand how they get that implant into that tiny incision! It's amazing to watch.
As you can see, it's late and I'm not sleeping. I will try to post some before and after photo's later.
Lilah, my prayers go with you tomorrow!! You'll be fine!
Kat, I'm thinking good thoughts for us, too. Sorry you had to drop the "D"; my DH is MIA in NY, so I'm going with a friend....and I'm okay with that, too.
If we made it through January and all those TE fills, I KNOW we will get through this!
Nighty Nite
Marianne
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Best wishes to Lilah, Val, Kat, and TNGolfer on your surgeries this week!!! May they all be uneventful, your recoveries swift, and your outcomes exactly as you hope! Yippee-squishee!
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Best wishes to all having surgeries !!!
Laura....I have 800 cc Style 45 implants...I now wear 36 C...I can also wear the 36 D underwire bras I wore before BC but there is MUCH less upper flesh/cleavage. Before BC, I could never have fit into a 36 C. Maybe I should have been in a DD before but the straps on those are so much wider and they fell off my shoulders and I just never liked the fit as well...the cups seemed to come to far around the sides. So, the 36 D that I used to pile a lot of flesh into now just fits kind of nicely actually. I made sure that I washed and fitted a couple of them to me before the surgery so I would be able to tell the difference. They fit but not at all like before...I had to tighten the straps more than an inch...maybe more than two. So, those other women you are noticing probably look a lot bigger because they have all that upper breast tissue that we are missing.
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Laura & Paula - implants always look smaller than the real thing, even with augmentation (but even more with reconstruction because we have no breast tissue to fill out the front). When I had augmentation, I was borderline 34D/DD. I can wear most of my old bras. I was measured to be a 34D now. I have the width, but not the projection. I thought I had a hard time with aug foobs, the recon foobs are worse!!! And no one carries D cups!! And I live in Vegas where there are more implants than any other city in America. You would think the buyers here would get it!!!
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Brenda, I wasn't in a lot of pain, didn't take the pain meds after the first day, just Tylenol... I would say a good week and I was in barely any pain (just had some issues under right breast where he did a lot of pocket work and the bra rubbed on it)
Marianne, Thanks! I didn't know you could watch the procedures on the internet! That is crazy! I'm not sure I want to know... I am so happy that you are finally getting your day!
Rebecca, just went to the picture forum and didn't see your name? Have you posted yet? Are they under a different name?
Lilah, good luck today!
Val & Kat, good luck on Thursday!!!!
Kittycat, thanks for the inside scoop, that makes sense!
Paula
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Laura, I just looked at some of your artwork. So beautiful! It's what I looked at before I went to sleep and I had a much better night than I've had in a long while. Coincidence? Thanks for sharing. Maggie
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Brenda, keep in mind that I tend to be up and about rather quickly, but I was managing pretty much the next day after my exchange. There was a 2- day period when I couldn't shower, and another 2 weeks of wearing the surgical bra or sports bra. And of course the mandatory "don't lift/pull/push anything heavy" rule. But overall, it was easy.
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Lilah, I hope your enjoying room service this morning getting ready for your big day
I can't wait to hear how your doing.....thinking about you and wishing you all the best! Beautiful in NYC today!Kat and Val....wishing you both all the best! Kat your going to love your softer boobies! Val I can't wait to hear how the nips look
Deep cleansing breath.......phew....hard to relax Kittycat....I think your BS is just having a bad ego moment =( I don't believe you Onco would have given you false hopes! Docs and their egos.....geeeeez!
Strength, healing and courage,
Laura2
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Maggie thanks so much for your kind words
and if you slept well, even better Brenda, I only needed pain killers the first night, tylenol for the next week and was back at work in 4 days
I am lucky to work an odd workweek with half days and days off in between, which gives me bounce back time. If I was working 9 to 5 I would have probably would have taken a week off. I lost no range of motion....it's been two weeks now and I'm still feeling fine. I have to remind myself not to lift anything over 10lbs for the 4 week period. You will see that there is a wide range of recovery depending how much mucking about the doc has to do during the exchange All the best,
Laura2
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Don't remember if it was on this thread but can someone give me the "bra" page that has the different styles on it? I'm having trouble finding a bra that's comfortable....all the ones I've tried seem to feel like a metal harness! Maybe I've been going braless for too long???
Terri
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Terri, the bra page is 417 on this thread.
Laura2, what art work is Maggie referring to and where can I go to see it?
Paula
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Packergirl - I had the migration after my exchange - my PS said it made them look natural - but it was somewhat painful and the dents in my chest when lounging back were unacceptable. I got a new PS and my revision surgery has fixed all that - PLUS - I got my nips. My foobs still sway and move a bit - but not nearly as much as before. I love them now and before I didn't feel good about them.
Allie
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