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DIEP Flap Peeps/surgery/questions as usual
Good Morning,
This is me Ms. Question asker!! Guess what I have another QUESTION!! Go figure. 
On April 18th I am scheduled for Phase II and III of my DIEP flap surgery (I asked if he could do nip/tuck and new nipple at the same time instead of 2 surgeries)!! And my HOTTIE PS said yes.
Anyway, he said your right breast is......What every girl wants to hear.....Anesthetically pleasing! LOL. He said if you want the right side lifted than I can do that but he will need to cut around the nipple and then from the bottom of the nipple to wear your underwire there will be another incision.
I looked at him and said you are the doctor what do you think??? He had me stand up and he said they match pretty good, so I do not think you need to do anything with it unless you want too. He said go home and think about it, look in the mirror and if you want me to give the right a little lift I will do whatever you want....
My first thought was NO WAY I don't want another dang incision/scar/battle wound whatever you want to call it or any pain on my right breast.
Now, today I am thinking okay, I need voices of wisdom that have done the DIEP, kept 1 breast and did they get it lifted or leave as is???
Thank you in advance!!!
To achieve great we must communicate
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myleftlump.wordpress.com - started blogging my
IDC breast cancer
7/2012 diagnosed with multiple solid lesions
7/20/12 biopsy done. ER+ 30 PR -, HER+++,k167 80% Grade 2
9/2012 biopsy on lymph node - showed malignant
9/2012 Pre-adjunctive TCH chemo.
12/6/12 MRI after Pre-adj.
Results: Modest Decrease in size of left breast malignancy As well as the associated satellite lesions and auxiliary Adenopathy compared to prior study. Doctors hoped for better but good response it didn't grow.
12/18/2012 left masectomy with axillary nodes
Size 3.2 CM, Nottingham score 9/9
Grade 3, no evidence of in situ carcinoma
Areas of angiolymphatic are identified
Carcinoma is 0.5 cm from inked deep
Margin of excision
Attached axillary lymph nodes: metastatic
Carcinoma in 6 of 8 nodes.
Size of largest node 1.5 cm
Extracapsular
ER + 73%, PR+2%, HER2+
2/27/13 6 weeks of IMRT radiation finished
2/2013 Started on Tamoxifan 5 years.
8/2013 will take last Herceptin, 17 treatments total every 3 weeks.
BRCA1 & BRAC2 - Negative
August 28, 2013 DIEP flap on the left breast.
February 2014 Nip & Tuck
March 14, 2014 nipple reconstruction and removed port.
August 14, 2014 lump in lymph nodes under arm and above clavicle. Stage IV
August 28, 2014 herceptin And projeta starting and port put back in.
3/18/15 stopped arimidex.
3/18/15 progression....Tdm1
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