[fluffqueen01]

I was stage one, grade 2, with a mulitfocal, multicentric IDC that also had a little LCIS in it. less than 1 cm. I chose to have a bmx as my breasts were dense and anything was hard to find. I also couldn't face worrying about the other breast for the rest of my life on a daily basis. (I am 55). I had no problems after bmx, full range of motion is back, etc.

I chose immediate reconstruction which was going great although there was an pseudoma infection two weeks after surgery. We thought we had it eliminated with antibiotics, when it showed up again. PS went in to look at it prepared to insert the implants if it wasn't too bad. Decided to wait. So everything was removed, I did another two weeks of IV anitbiotics along with oral cipro. All seems to be good now and we will be starting over in August.

Pathology of the bmx was excellent, and they found a fibroadenoma on the other breast that did not show up on mammo, mri or ultrasound. Made me feel like I made a sound decision.

good luck! I have done taxol/herceptin after the fact and only have one session of taxol left to go.