Inflating the balloon

Court side at the MAVS game! I handed out the game ball/
waddled to hand out the game ball lol. CHEMO FABULOUS

Sigh,

I want to post pictures, I do. To be completely honest I don't care if the world seeings what double mastectomy boobs look like, because they look like shit! I think that all of those pink ribbon ads should be filled with pictures of post mastectomy "breasts", drains, bald browless lashless women who have put on 30 pounds of chemo weight, and vomit and diarrhea. Yes gross, but that's REAL. Out of respect for my sexy ass husband and the fact that no ones "boobs" or "foobs" or "nubs" in my case should really be out there, I won't.

But who needs pics when you have my graphic detail.

My post mastectomy bandage. As you can see....nothing there!

So I didn't get to keep any breast tissue. What does that mean? All of my insides of my boobs were taken out, my nipples, and aereola. So I have a scar on both sides that goes from boob side to boob side and is a zig zag where they took out my nipple. (/\/\) that's kind of what it looks like. So basically afterwards it was just sagging skin. In place of my breast tissue, they put a tissue expander, plastic water balloon. They inflated it immediately with 300 CC's in each nubbin'. When I go to the doctor (every two weeks), they stick a very large needle in my tissue expander and put in additional fluid. I was able to take in an additional 250CC's at my appointment last Thursday for a total of 550cc's. Not bad, but as my last post stated, I'm a member of the Big Titty Committee, not medium sized one! In order to get to the size I want I probably need another 200-250cc's in addition to the fat grafting so I'm hoping to get there next Thursday.

During the reconstructive surgery they will take out the tissue expander, put in the implant, and then do the fat grafting. That's how it's done!