TRACI RIMMER

OCT 12TH 2009 I WENT IN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR A BREAST REDUCTION...THE SURGERY WENT WELL AND THE OUTCOME WAS WONDERFUL...I HEALED GREAT BUT GOING BACK TO HAVE THE STITCHES OUT...MY SURGEON HAD TO BREAK THE NEWS TO ME..THEY HAD FOUND DCIS IN BOTH BREAST...IT WAS CONTAINED..BUT AS BREAST CANCER RAN IN MY FAMILY I WANT TO HAVE A BILATERAL MASTECTOMY ...SO ON DEC 12TH 2009 I HAD BILATERAL MASTECTOMY... WITH SKIN AND MUSCLE TAKEN FROM MY BACK AND BROUGHT AROUND.. TO MAKE MY BREAST MOUNDS..IN JAN 2010 I GOT VERY SICK AND HAD TO GO INTO EMERGENCY SURGERY FOR MRSA UNDER MY LEFT EXPANDER..BUT BOTH EXPANDERS WERE REMOVED...I HAD TO WAIT FOR 6 MONTHS BEFORE STARTING MY RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY BACK..IN AUG 2010 I WAS ABLE TO GET MY EXPANDERS BACK..AND WITH ONLY 3 FILLS..I WAITED 2 MONTHS TO HAVE MY IMPLANTS PUT IN...ON DEC 3 2010 I HAD MY IMPLANT SURGERY DONE...IT IS NOW THE END OF DECEMBER AND I'M STILL SORE AND THE LEFT BREAST FEELS AS THOUGH IT IS STINGING ALL THE TIME..AND FEELS A LIL LARGER THAN THE RIGHT BREAST..I GO BACK TO MY SURGEON ON JAN 11 2011 FOR A CHECK UP....I GUESS I AM STILL A WORK IN PROCESS..BUT HAVE LOTS OF QUESTIONS STILL...