Sunday, December 14, 2003
Another Treatment Tomorrow: will it be the same?
I wonder if the next round of chemo will be the same. Will I sail through the actual visit as easily? Will I again avoid any nausea? Or maybe I'll psych myself into having worse flu-like symptoms, since that's what I decided my aches and pains resembled?
I tried on a new bra today. It's non-underwire, since the reconstructed breast has some excess tissue on the side. There was a poofy little pocket of air where a nipple should have been; the tram flap is a flat comet-shaped piece of skin that just doesn't have the contour the undergarment expects. Maybe I can stuff a cotton ball in there. The last time I saw the plastic surgeon, he suggested further contouring with liposuction to shape the side. He would remove some extra skin so that the flap would only be an aureola-sized circle, which could then be tattooed. I wonder how they get a 3 dimensional thing going...I think they take skin from someplace else.
More sutures and steri-strips. I'll be glad when it's all over.
I'll be glad when everything is over. I've received dire warnings from friends of my mom that each chemo treatment will be progressively worse. I wonder if it will be if I think so. Maybe if I refuse to believe it, the treatments will go exactly as the first one did. We'll see.
I tried on a new bra today. It's non-underwire, since the reconstructed breast has some excess tissue on the side. There was a poofy little pocket of air where a nipple should have been; the tram flap is a flat comet-shaped piece of skin that just doesn't have the contour the undergarment expects. Maybe I can stuff a cotton ball in there. The last time I saw the plastic surgeon, he suggested further contouring with liposuction to shape the side. He would remove some extra skin so that the flap would only be an aureola-sized circle, which could then be tattooed. I wonder how they get a 3 dimensional thing going...I think they take skin from someplace else.
More sutures and steri-strips. I'll be glad when it's all over.
I'll be glad when everything is over. I've received dire warnings from friends of my mom that each chemo treatment will be progressively worse. I wonder if it will be if I think so. Maybe if I refuse to believe it, the treatments will go exactly as the first one did. We'll see.
