SURGERY NUMBER 14 COMING UP, Aug 6th, NERVOUS & fingers X'd

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macb04
macb04 Member Posts: 1,433
edited July 2015 in Breast Reconstruction

Having my implant exchange done August 6th at noon. Trying not to get nervous, just sort of happens. Have had reasonable sucess and terrible failures. Planning every last detail I can think of. Getting 5 grams Vitamin C added to my IV during surgery and also the next day getting more Vitamin C at my Naturopath. Am getting Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy, started today to help healing because have had really bad rads damage. Starting antibiotics the day before surgery, hope the Cipro is helpful this time. Will take Liposomal Vitamin C, Astragulus, Turkey Tail and several other herbal antibacterial and wound healing promoter supplements. This is so incredibly important to me. Only you ladies who have suffered through all of this misery to look whole can completely understand my desperation. Please send me your good energy, thoughts and prayers.

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  • trailrose
    trailrose Member Posts: 219
    edited July 2015

    macb04- I'm sending you TONS of good energy and thoughts!

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  • geewhiz
    geewhiz Member Posts: 1,439
    edited July 2015

    Good luck Mac - you have had about as many surgeries as I have!! I hope this is it for you!!!

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  • macb04
    macb04 Member Posts: 1,433
    edited July 2015

    Thanks trailrose and geewhiz for your good wishes. Every little bit helps me to get through this. Every day I am doing positive affirmations, sounds goofy, but I guess why not be asking for good things to happen.

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  • 123JustMe
    123JustMe Member Posts: 385
    edited July 2015
    Good luck! May you breeze through surgery and recovery!
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  • ElaineTherese
    ElaineTherese Member Posts: 3,328
    edited July 2015

    Fourteen surgeries! OY. Lots of good wishes coming your way!

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  • sbelizabeth
    sbelizabeth Member Posts: 2,889
    edited July 2015

    macb04, I had a DIEP recon after severe rad damage, and had a total of 7 surgeries altogether. I've been through multiple antibiotics and hyperbaric oxygen therapy too. I'm finally finished--yay!--with nice results.

    Two suggestions for you, which you probably already know--get plenty of sleep and try to get in some exercise every day. It seems to boost the immune system. Good luck!

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  • macb04
    macb04 Member Posts: 1,433
    edited July 2015

    Hi there to all of you ladies. Thank you for the good wishes. My stomach has been really bothering me, not just nerves. Don't know what's going on, started yesterday morning after having some bacon. I know I can't digest fats well, the body scan found a huge gall stone at the beginning of this disaster. I feel like my gut is barely moving, like I am blowing up with gas. I am able to go to the bathroom, but just feel really bloated and uncomfortable. My belly even woke me from sleep last night. My husband thinks it is some weird side effects of the Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy. I've done HBOT 80 times so far and never had GI problems, just clogged ears now and again. Hope this goes away. Drinking Tummy teas and having ginger ale, am better now than earlier today, but still not back to normal.

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