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Direct to Implant and Reconstruction Same Day
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Jul 26, 2023 | Replies (43)Comment receiving replies
Good morning, and big hugs to you very caring and worried parents💕 I just underwent a double mastectomy 9 days ago at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, and I had the “direct to implant, nipple sparing reconstruction.” I am a smaller person with smaller breasts, and my area of concern was too large to do a lumpectomy. I reported to the hospital at 5:30am, surgery started at 8 and was completed by 12:30, and I was leaving the hospital by 3:30pm. All went very smoothly, and my follow up appt a week later showed everything is healing nicely.😊 I still have drain tubes, and pain level has been very manageable. I never had to take the strong pain med (Oxycodone) they sent home with me at all. Just tylenol, ibuprofen, a muscle relaxer, and an antibiotic. Im so sorry your daughter is battling cancer and facing these big decisions, but it sounds like you are there for her with support and encouragement, and having people in her corner can make a wonderful difference💕
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Thank you for writing and we are sorry for your situation as well. My daughters faces a little different surgery based on her situation. Number one, she has size F breasts which make it a harder surgery and reconstruction. She wants both her nipples taken off to be sure no cancer cells are there hiding. She is having nipples tattooed on afterwards. She is in methadone for chronic pain from a back and neck surgery where she fell down a flight of stairs. She also wanted the o r step (if you can call it that) procedure do she could get back to work and pay her bills. The biggest problem is trying to pay up front for a $53,000 surgery up front. I can’t believe they would make anyone do that. Please pray for Melissa Toomey. Thank you.
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Hello,
So with your diagnosis did you skip chemo all together? I have been told that my cancer HER2 + was too large to do lumpectomy or anything else and that we needed to shrink it first. I am only going into my 2nd treatment now, the first treatment it was super bad for about 7 days with severe bone pain, fever and excruciating headache. Next chemo is on monday and not looking forward to it. I would have loved to have had my breast removed but this was not given to me as a good option. As I understand I will still need to take Herceptin and Pergeta for a year after my lumpectomy and reconstructive surgery,