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Posted by sheila in FL on 8/8/2008, 8:03 pm
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I am trying not to cry. I saw my ps yesterday for the first time since my expander surgery (June 11). He came in to the room, I was sitting there undressed from the waist up, and he began to tell me how bad my breast looked. He told me that the breast wasn't filling out well with the saline injections and that we have to keep adding more. I'm ok with that, although I'm at 800 cc now. Then, he asks me if my skin was radiated (YES! - read my chart,please) - and he wonders out loud why I wanted to have implants instead of tramflap. He says that he can tell I'm not going to get good results and that he "knew this" when he finished the initial surgery (in June).
He didn't tell me then what he thought and he hasn't been around once this summer when I was in the office.
I reminded him that I/we chose the implant because he has a high success rate with women who have had radiation and because there is no one to help me recover from a major surgery like the tram or Lat flap. I reminded him (look in my chart, doctor, PLEASE) that my husband passed away and that my children are grown and working.
It was clear that he didn't remember me or anything about my case. In his defense, he does see a lot of women and he does do a lot of reconstructive surgery. He is supposed to be one of the best.
He wants me to just go ahead and let him do the tram. I'm not ready or willing to do this yet. We finally agreed to keep filling the expander and that he will do the exchange sometime in November and see what it looks like.
I need your thoughts and help with this. I really wasn't that thrilled with having reconstruction in the first place (waited 8 years) and now this!
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