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EMME......
Please take Deborah's advice.
Also.. PLEASE contact by PM, a lady here by the screename MOORETENNIS. Tell her your story... and about what size you want. She got LARGE saline implants that look AMAZING on her( they are SOFT.. not hard) and she DID NOT have to have two separate TE placements... She is awesome to talk to. Tell her ESTEPP sent you to her...
God Bless you all this Fathers Day weekend. I love this Holiday.. I LOVE spoiling my men! So far so good.... Shrimp Fettuccine... Wine...Chocolate cake... swimming... bonfire....grandkids singing to their daddy ( our son) and to their Papa ( my hubby) the HAPPY FATHERS DAY SONG..... and right now.. as I type.. Hubby/grandson/grandaughter sleeping on the blow up matrices below me ( I am on the couch in the kids playroom)...... and it is NOT EVEN FATHERS DAY YET...:)
I am waking them all to chocolate chip pancakes... watermelon... and some great coffee beans to grind for the PaPa who slept all night with the 3 and 2 yr old grandkids on the blow up matrices while LaLa ( me) slept in their real bed...:)
... Why they did not pick the " kids overnight room" to sleep in is beyond me... it must be more fun to "camp out" in the playroom....Through it all, God is good.
I hope you all have a wonderful Fathers Day tomorrow... and if your father is no longer with you... my prayer for you right now, is that you feel the happiness in your heart of the memories you had with him.
xxxooo
Laura
there is just something special
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Such a wonderful Father's Day, Laura! How thoughtful you are....We're doing crepes with raspberry jam and fruit salad and I think all the kids have something thoughtful to share with their dad. Happy Sunday to all.
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My updated pics are finally up on the forum Val please let me know about the bra.
Rebecca
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Laura -- sounds like a fab holiday! Enjoy!
Wendy -- thanks for that! Interesting that you didn't notice til after the bad one was removed -- but perhaps it was just distracting you from feeling the subtler stuff. I went to the mall yesterday and was walking around and felt, distinctly (to my great surprise) a little jiggle in my gummy!
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Woohoo Lilah, a jiggle in the gummy! What a fun catchy phrase:)
Laura, that is just beautiful!
DawnHope, checked out that thread, great inspiration!
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Good Morning, Ladies, and Happy Father's Day.I am going in for my exchange surgery tomorrow morning, and I'm a tad nervous! Any advice to lessen the pain? I am also getting some lipo done to get rid of "dog ears"-tissue left sticking ot on my sides, and my port/cath removed. ow long do youthink it be before I recover and reurn to work. I'm planning on taking off 3 weeks. Any advice wold be helpful. hanks!
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cant give advice on this im afraid,but good luck!
Hope all goes smoothly and you wake up with a great pair of foobs!
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mslrg -- it depends on how long it takes for you to recover from the extra pocket work (which may leave you more sore than most). That said, I found that after a few days I was pretty good as far as pain... my only issue post exchange (and I did have a reduction as well) was that my red blood count went low (from the reduction, not the exchange) and so I was VERY tired for a few weeks. I believe that with exchange -- even WITH a lot of pocket work -- you should be fine after a week and definitely fine after two. So your three weeks will do the trick. You'll probably be antsy and want to go back after two
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mslrg - congratulations are in order for you at this milestone! I had exchange surgery on Friday and boy was I nervous too. My suggestions are logistical:
Go around your home and look for things you may need to get to when there is no one to help. I put dog and cat food in small easy to open containers and put them on the counter so I can get them without having to stoop and lift, or stretch. Ditto for laundry detergent. I don't have kids in the house at the moment, so I had my husband open my medications - it's amazing how much you use your pecs to open a little pill bottle, or a peanut butter jar!
I made a nest for resting, the center of which is my recliner. I went to Blockbuster and rented a bunch of movies, enough to get me through Tuesday. I have my small portable dvd player handy and my ear phones so I don't keep DH awake if I feel like having a "Big Love" marathon in the middle of the night. I put a clock nearby so I don't have to crane my neck to see what time it is, and I put my bedside lamp on a switch so I don't have to stretch to turn off the lamp if DH isn't around to do it for me.
Tomorrow I'm on my own while DH is at work, and Tues. he leaves town for the rest of the week so we'll see how that goes. I agree with Lilah you probably will be feeling pretty good in two weeks. I'm really sore, swollen and a little bruised from a lot of pocket work, but I was able to go out for a short walk with a friend yesterday morning.
Good luck tomorrow, many will be pulling for you from this board!
Betty
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Ms. LRG- good luck tomorrow!! It will be a lot easier than the TE"S and Mx. That said, everyone is different, but if I had a job and my boss said I had to be back, I could have been to work 5 days afterwards. I was a bit tired but not sore. Good thing it's summer- you can enjoy the time out of work with hopefully beautiful weather,
As far as pain, your PS will give you an RX for pain meds. I took maybe 2 of the vicodin day 1 and maybe the next day and switched to advil. and didn't need too much of that either,
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Lilah, Waldo, m-star, and Bebotx, thanks for the good wishes and great advice. I already have pain in my pecs from opening pill bottles--the TEs have been God awful these past 8 months!Whatever the post-opererative pain might be, it can't be worse than having these upsidedown pith helmets under my collar bones for the past 8 months since my BMX. All good advice regarding having stuff close by so I don't have to hurt myself reaching for them. I also like the idea of a stash of movies! Now "pocket work"??Is that the name for the lipo and sculping I'm having done? My PS told me that I will feel like I was pummelled! Thanks, and I'll be sure to chek back in and let you all know how it went.0
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Congrats to all the ladies who made it through exchange last week!! Hope you have a smooth and easy recovery.
Di
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OK, take back everything I said- Lipo and scultping are not something I can address. There are others who have had it done. Mine was a straight forward exchange with scar revision and a LOLLY-POP lift
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Ms. LRG, good luck with your exchange!! FYI "pocket work" is shorthand for the PS altering the pocket in which the TE and implant sits. Sometimes your TEs are in the exact right place and no pocket work is needed. Other times the TE is too high/low/outside and the PS needs to re-disect part of the pocket so that the implant can be in the "right" position.
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Ah Mslrg -- the lipo will leave you black and blue wherever it is done ... still and all... you'll probably be down for the count for like 4 days but then will start feeling pretty good. I've not had lipo but a friend did and she was definitely better after 4 days (she had a breast reduction with lipo). As for sculpting -- that MIGHT be pocket work -- I'm not really sure. Even so I think my two week prediction should hold. The one thing that will heal fast (or should anyway) is the exchange part -- the PS generally cuts open the MX scar (but not as wide as the MX scar) and slips the implant in... so the incision is smaller. That said, if there is a lot of work done to the capsule (I believe I had SOME stitching at the IMF, for example, and on the outer side of the capsule) that might leave you sore as well. Where are you getting lipo? What exactly is being sculpted?
Bottom line: your implants are going to feel MUCH better than the TEs. When I woke up in recovery I felt IMMEDIATE relief. I hope you will too
My worst pain the first few days was in getting in and out of bed... the sitting up and lying back hurt because the surgery was near those muscles. But even after a few days it was noticeably better.0 -
Liliah:
Did you use Collen McCarthy? A woman on another thread was looking to speak with someone who used her.
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No my doctor was Andrea Pusic. I'm happy to talk to that woman though if she wants to... tell her to PM me.
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I'm baaaaaack! Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes. My trip with my DH was just what the doctor ordered right before my exchange! I had my last appointment with my PS, before my exchange, and she said my BS and her are using me as their "poster girl" because everything has been going so well so that was a nice birthday gift!
Kittycat- So glad it was good news for once regarding your mole. Hope there are no more surprises. So glad the chemo is going ok for you.
Jerusha, Sandy3170, bebotx and Ms LRG- Hope you are all recuperating well after your exchange and see some yipee/squishy going on soon!
Hope everyone else is doing good as well!
9 more days until I get a visit from the "Boob Fairy"!!! Woo-hoo!
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Kate -- I love it: poster girl! Hope the exchange is just as perfect.
I echo Kate: Jerusha, Sandy, bebotx and MsLarg -- do keep us posted on how you are doing!
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Ms Lrg..... you are going to do fine! I am a Hairstylist and was working 10 hrs days ( three of them) two weeks after exchange and I had MUCHO rads pocket work... it is ok sweety... you are going to be much better than the mast/te surgery. Just take all pain meds... every 4 hours whether you think you need them or not for the first three days. Hold the pain away.. and you'll never know if you really had any.
Kate.. Welcome home girlie!
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Ms Lrg..... you are going to do fine! I am a Hairstylist and was working 10 hrs days ( three of them) two weeks after exchange and I had MUCHO rads pocket work... it is ok sweety... you are going to be much better than the mast/te surgery. Just take all pain meds... every 4 hours whether you think you need them or not for the first three days. Hold the pain away.. and you'll never know if you really had any.
Kate.. Welcome home girlie!
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For those of you who have done chemo... how do you combat fatigue? I am soooo tired today. I have no energy and I'm eating healthy and drinking lots of fluids.
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Kittycat: I noticed that you said you planned to work through chemo. I had an increedibly stressful and demanding sales job--12 hour days, no breaks, doing everything for everyone except myself. Personally, I just couldn't imagine having that kind of pressure while undergoing chemo. However, I know plenty of people who have worked through it, but you have to give yourself lots of room to recover. Tell your boss you'll be coming in late and leaving early and some days you are going to have to take off. I can't imagine doing anything else. Maybe if my job had been less demanding I could have hung in there. It's a very individual thing. I was getting IV's of vitamin C and minerals 4 days after chemo and every week during chemo to help keep up my energy. I still feel tired and it's been 3 months since I finished. Kicked my but it did. Hang in there, it goes by pretty fast. Try high protein powder with frozen fruit and spinach in it--you can get all of it from trader joes. Lots and lost of protein.
Mary
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Kittycat: I noticed that you said you planned to work through chemo. I had an increedibly stressful and demanding sales job--12 hour days, no breaks, doing everything for everyone except myself. Personally, I just couldn't imagine having that kind of pressure while undergoing chemo. However, I know plenty of people who have worked through it, but you have to give yourself lots of room to recover. Tell your boss you'll be coming in late and leaving early and some days you are going to have to take off. I can't imagine doing anything else. Maybe if my job had been less demanding I could have hung in there. It's a very individual thing. I was getting IV's of vitamin C and minerals 4 days after chemo and every week during chemo to help keep up my energy. I still feel tired and it's been 3 months since I finished. Kicked my but it did. Hang in there, it goes by pretty fast. Try high protein powder with frozen fruit and spinach in it--you can get all of it from trader joes. Lots and lots of protein.
Mary
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Kittycat:I agree with MBJ LOTS and LOTS of protein. I know this was your first treatment which for me fatigue wise was the worst. I made sure I ate no matter how tired I felt, but I also slept when it became too much. I work for myself and was able to work (or not) from home. I tried to do the "stay active" thing to avoid fatigue but some days just couldn't. Definitely rest if it becomes too much. I am one month done and really feel like the fatigue is finally gone...thankfully.
One treatment down!!
Di
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About working through chemo~i guess it's good if you can ,but i wasn't allowed. Being a hairdresser and working with the public,they advised against it as my immune sytem would be compromised with the chemo and i could pick up germs and bugs alot easier.
Even WITHOUT working, my blood count dropped so low after my 5th (out of 6) chemo, and it stayed low for a long time~i couldn't have my 6th chemo dose as the time between the two had been too long.
Tiring yourself out even more will further weaken your immune system. Is it possible to work reduced hours? It was because i couldn't have my 6th chemo that they gave me mantle radiation as a back-up. If i hadn't had to have the rad's, i wouldn't be in this situation of having to get my breasts removed........
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Kittycat -- I confess I only HAD to get out of bed and teach once a week (Thursdays; my chemo was always on Mondays) and on top of that I didn't start teaching until I had had my third chemo dose (I started chemo in the summer). So I don't remember being really tired... though I imagine I slept a lot since I didn't have to go anywhere for the first three - four weeks.
Kay -- so sorry that had to happen.
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I stopped working Kitty, all through chermo. Just like Kay.. my doctor told me NO NO to work due to me being around the public so much in my career.
The fatigue was the worst for me. I even further was in like a fog all the way through Adriamycin. That is a very, very hard Chemo.
Sleep all you can. This first two months of this Chemo should be taken with as much sleep and rest as your lifestyle allows. Protein.... Watermelon ... I ate a water mellow every three days. Great water source.I a sorry you are having this trouble. For me, the 12 weeks of Taxol was much better. Adriamycin kicked my booty. At least you only have a few more of that drug to go. (((HUG)))
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Mrs Lrg, best wishes for you with little discomfort and fast healing!
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Kitty Cat, just popping on to say a big HURRAY for your no cancer mole!! What a relief.
I'm a two times BC gal too and to say the least, it's a knee jerk reaction over everything, isn't it?
Thank god!!!!!
Happy anniversary too and good luck to all sweet sisters as they have treatments, revisions, surgeries, etc in the Boob Wars.
love you all
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