Wow, glad to hear you're doing okay now @cancerwifemom . Did you ever find out what caused it (iow was the expander itself contaminated or do they think you picked it up from the hospital itself when they were doing the procedure or something else)? I'm still trying to decide on what type of recon and infection is one of my biggest fears for implants. I've talked to a few different plastic surgeons and they each tell me something different about the infection risk and what they do to prevent it so I'm not sure what to believe. I understand that infection rates are much higher for BC patients than for implants for just augmentation.