[Sherryg683]

I am 3 years out with a stage IV diagnosis and have been NED since treatment. I understand your aprehensions about it being a waste of time. I still find it hard to buy things on sale for next season because I wonder if I'll still be around then. I only had a lumpectomy and didn't need reconstruction but if I did and I know what I know now, I would definately have it done if it was important for me. We can't live our lives waiting for that shoe to drop, we got to put on our dancing shoes and keep dancing. I had one friend who had a trans flap and another girl I know who had the implants. The one who had the implants had a much easier time of it and it looks really good, it did take longer with the gradual expansions and all. The one who had the transplant now says she would not have chosen that route. She was in a lot of pain for awhile in her stomach where they took the tissue from to make her breast. ...good luck..sherryg683