Brain MRI this morning

[kk1]

Just to clarify and expand (pun intended) on the issue of expanders versus implants and MRI-- Many of the expanders have special filling ports that are metallic so they are easy to detect (you would not want them missing and accidentally sticking a needle in the sack rather than the filling port) and would be heated by an MRI. Metals and MRI are not a good thing, which is why they ask if and where you have any metal parts. KS gals problem is probably unique because she never received actual implants. The final implants do not usually have metal ports--only expanders have ports.

KS gal, my prayers are with you that the MRI will be good once you get the expander removed....or maybe you should think or discuss with the plastic surgeon just finishing the reconstruction. The inconvenience of having the expander removed might be similar to just putting in an implant.

Of course, as my dad use to say, I am talking through my hat as I am flat chested no reconstruction, as I found I was stage 4 before I had my mastectomy,and like you at the time thought why bother....10 years latter I still often wonder if I did not second guess myself and consider going in for that reconstruction after all. Wishing you good scans.

All the best