Almost There

So I saw the plastic surgeon yesterday. It was quite uneventful. I will say I've been looking at women's boobs a lot now. I've been comparing and making my wish list. I figure mine will look fake and I'm completely ok with that. They have these shirts that say "Yes they're fake, my old ones tried to kill me". I definitely have to get myself a couple of those.

The whole process is a bit odd, to say the least. So what happens is during surgery,
my breast surgeon (BS) takes all the breast tissue out. They call it a skin sparing masectomy because she leaves all the skin (with the expectation of the nipple...more on that later).They used to cut off all your breast including the skin and leave barely anything..... Thank God for technology. Unfortunatley due to the type and location of the cancer I cant keep my nipples. There is of course a chance if I tried to keep them, I would get cancer in them at some later point.

So after the BS is done I have a skin pocket where my boobs used to be. Then the plastic surgeon comes in and places Tissue Expanders under my pec muscle.I'll basically be coming out of surgery flat chested...lol. That is going to be an interesting sight! I havent been flat chested since Elementary School. The Expanders will get filled once a week to make space for the implants.So they are like little ballons which get filled with salience. The plastic surgeon said 6 weeks and I'll be done. After I'm done "Expanding" well do an "Exchange" and I get my implants. Then after that NIPPLES (said in my best excited voice). Who would have thunk it! Technology is soo crazy.

Next stop on the cancer train is the Sentinal Node Mapping....more on that joy later! In the meantime keep me in your prayers and thoughts.