Mark and I headed down to Missoula after work for another visit with Dr. Hardy. My incision on the left breast had again opened up in 2 places. It again was a couple of sutures that my body didn't absorb and it gets pussy, opens the incision and spits out the suture. This time he did not stitch it up. It was only open on the surface and we just let my body heal and close on it's own.
Questions that I had were:
Why do my breast hurt so badly in the cold?
Because it is silicone and not my own tissue it does not heat up like the rest of my body. This causes my muscles in the breast to tense up. He said I just need to move somewhere warm. Okay! I can deal with that! Tropical? Heck yes! The girls look better in a bikini top anyway rather than a nonflattering parka!
Why am I having such intense pain in my back?
I am guarding it. I need to exercise and stretch those muscles. So when I got home I googled physical therapy stretching after breast surgery. I have been doing those now and what a world of difference. Don't baby it...stretch it.
http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/BreastCancer/MoreInformation/exercises-after-breast-surgery
Will my cancer breast implant ever drop and not be so stiff?
Massage, massage, massage. But the answer was an alarming NO! Hmmm....I don't think that is what he had said on previous visits. I can look back to other blogs, but I think he had said, "gravity will eventually take its course." Now that is not the case. Matter of a fact he also said that he may have to go in there and remove scar tissue if it becomes a problem. He may have to do that a couple of times. What? Grrr!
Well, All in all the visit went fine. Just heard some things that I wasn't too excited about but I will have to live with that.
The girls look great compared to what they did before this whole process and I would do it all again in a heartbeat!
Monday, February 6, 2012
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