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Hi Maria,
I am just getting ready to have my nipple reconstruction. Mine sounds like it might be a little different. I will be put under general anesthetic and they will take tissue from around the vaginal area (yes, now I'm "oversharing"- sorry). The surgery is supposed to take about 1 hour to complete. Then, if for some reason I don't think that the tissue is dark enough, I will have the option to tatoo over the graft to make the color more "exact". I'm excited about the surgery on one hand, and not on the other. OUCH!!!!
Love, Kelly
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dx'd 05/06, 37 years old
er/pr-, Her2+, grade 3
double mastectomy, immediate reconstruction- implants
Stage 2b, 2 tumors- 2.2 cm and 0.6 cm, 3/5 + nodes
all scans clear
genetic testing- negative
06/06 began dd A/C x 4, 12 weekly Taxols w/ Herceptin
30 rads
Herceptin weekly x 1 year
Herceptin completed 08/07
Port removed 12/26/07 MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!
05/17/08 Two year anniversary NED
"We gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... you must do the thing that you think you cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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