It's been awhile

So.......

I know I haven't posted on here in forever.

I am finally having my breast reconstruction sugery on Thursday. I had my pre-op appointment yesterday, didn't have to do much, just sign some consent forms and get a before picture taken..eek. I think that is the only bad thing about plastic surgery, seriously, why do they need to take a picture? Anyway, I am having an expander placed behind my muscle on my right side and it will be filled up once a month for about six months. My surgeon pretty much talked me out of having the surgery I was going to have, simply because I didn't really think about a few things that will be hindered by that kind of surgery. A TRAM-Flap surgery takes one side of the front ab muscles along with stomach skin, and is pushed up under the muscles and skin to the area of reconstruction. This is a MAJOR surgery that is not guaranteed to work. If the flap fails I would be without half of my abdominal muscles. Also, since I would like to have a child sometime in the future, this surgery would take the skin that is needed to stretch and support a baby, not to mention the missing ab muscle. Usually this type of surgery is ideal for a woman that is finished with having kids and has had a bilateral(double) mastectomy. The TRAM-Flap surgery can only be done once because there is only one vein for both front abdominal muscles. Therfore, if I ever had to have reconstruction for the other side I couldn't have that kind of surgery.
So, the plus side is that if the expander fails, I can heal and put another in or just not have one at all and the skin will go back to the way it was before surgery.

So, that is pretty much it for now. I know, not much, planning for Ed and my wedding in September, very hard from so far away.