Any Michigan Ladies?

Day 4 post op- revision, too early to tell yet- but things are now looking better !

thanks JO

Thanks allydp....

congrats! stix! I have alloderm but you are ahead of me on exchange.  I am not scheduled until October 29.  I will be curious how you do!

stix - I had alloderm, but at initial surgery, so a bit different than you.  I still got the drop and fluff.  

Two weeks post op from revision- Revised by a new PS  The burn from the ice I put on postop is fading gradually with Silvadene.  The shape at this point of the new breast is quite different than the other mastectomy.  Will keep you posted.... I think its too early to tell- possibly also due to the addition of swelling from the ice burn.....

oh, well. I had ice on my surgical site.... about 15  minutes- it was protected.. and I developed 1st and second degree burns.  It was crazy... Basically It was a frostbite... not sure if it was b/c my skin was so thin there or due to something with surgery with the addition of the cold ice. Either way I think it will resolve. Google Port wine spots on the face- look at the darkest port wine spot under images... you will see what my burn looked like. I started silvadene cream twice a day... last Monday. Made quite a difference. Hoping for no permanent skin color changes with this. The new implant looks funny- not like the other side.  I looked at my photos around 10 days postop from the other side- from a few years back... and it looked funny at two weeks also... so I hope it gains some form over the next few months and looks like the other. If not- I am not sure what I will do. Trying to take it day by day... will keep you posted.  How are you bayoubay?

Thanks bayoubabe...It has dropped quite a bit actually. But it's only two weeks. My plan was not to look at it except fir every 3 days... then i burnt with ice and i have to apply silvidene twice daily. I was so so glad  i didnt need radiation because i didnt want burns....but I got one anyway...haha... anyway...yep I have done the colon thing early also... My last one a big NEGATIVE..  glad for you too...

Yay, Stix!  Glad to hear it!

Stix: hope the burn is healing well and you are recovering nicely.  Remember from your other surgeries that likely it is too soon to assess how things settle out in the long run. Be well!

Great ally.. good luck.  My revision with disappointments thus far... 3 weeks post op. Shape unlike other side.Planning on posting pictures in the next couple of weeks on the forum....will post on here when i post them. Do people have access to the picture forum?   

stix, sorry you aren't so happy with the implants. Hopefully they are still shifting. 

Ally, good luck with your BMX and TEs.  I think you will find that outside of the first few weeks if soreness it is easier on your body than the chemo. We will be thinking of you. 

I don't ha access to the picture forum. Haven't gotten around to asking. My exchange is October 29. I did get good news this week that I don't need to do the final cycle of 3 weekly taxol. Mo doesn't think it will provide any added benefit since I did one round of taxotere. So, only two more treatments of taxol and that chapter is closed!

Good luck Ally and Yay mmtagirl!  Stix - it took quite a while for my swelling to go down.  Hang in there!  Let me know when you are on the picture forum, I have access.  Beautiful day here along Lake Michigan - hope all of you are enjoying some great weather as well!  

I am in the Grand Haven/Spring Lake/Muskegon area.  Beautiful here.  If anyone is ever on this side of the state - let me know and we will get together.

Not very sunny here today, but here is my back yard.  I am a bit spoiled!My yard provided great stress relief during my treatments.  This is a bayou off of one of the rivers that drain into Lake Michigan.