Friday, December 14, 2007

Chemo 6/8 - DONE ! Boobs inflation - DONE

The plastic surgeon expanded me up for the last time now I am at 500 cc's I guess if I ask he could pump me a bit more, will think about it.
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Interestingly I have another decision to make now in this area. If I am getting radiation treatment the standard protocol is to do the exchange surgery(where I trade my turtle shells for soft silicone cushies which will enable people to hug me instead of bouncing back from a hug) 6 months after the rads are done, because the flesh there basically becomes as inflexible as a beef jerkie after being fried by the rads and healing problems are encountered. He has presently dealt with several problems with exchange surgeries done that way (6 months after the rads) so he suggested that he do my surgery before I get rads after chemo. The radiation apparently is not impacting the implant material itself but my skin,flesh. It is a probability that the radiation might cause capsular contracture which might require a bit tweaking in the future but he seemed to be more comfortable with that.
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So yet another decision to make.. joy ! He will call the radiation oncologist to see his take on it.
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Went to my chemo and went over my conversations with the Clearwater surgeon with Dr. M, he is still standing his ground insisting that I should get the lymph nodes removed and if no more test positive I should not get radiation at all. He thinks that radiation in my case is an overkill and definitely is not agreeing with the other doctors. So I will be waiting to meet with the Tampa Moffitt surgeon who hopefully will refer me to the radiation oncologist at Moffitt ( they would not give me a self appointment) and then the final decision will be made.
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At this point I am really torn. My gut feel says go radiation, but am not quite positive.
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My older daugther Sibel was my chemo babysitter and I loved it! We watched a movie ' My Super Ex Girlfiend' by Umma Thurman(well I kind of konked out at the beginning thanks to the benadryl). At some point I got craving for a frosted chocolate cake and she went down to the cafeteria and grabbed me one. It lasted forever we were there at 11 oclock and it was about 5 by the time we left.
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As expected I did not get any sleep that night, thanks to the steroids ! We got the tree decorated though !

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