Sue Yelton

Tram Flap Reconstruction Horrible Experience - Columbia, MO

I just read your blog. You are a HERO! You didn't sit back heartbroken; you DID something. I am so glad for you and know you have given other women so much hope for a better life. Six years cancer free--You Go, Girl! I have been 13 yrs. with this horror and had so much trouble I am afraid of more surgery. I cancelled my PS appt. and went to be fitted for prostheses that will help lift and fill the concaveness. I keep remembering how I hated those darn things before my tram flap, but the fear of going through what I did before is just too much. I won't even let my husband look at me anymore I look so bad. ;( On the positive side, I AM 19 YRS. CANCER FREE with the mutated BRCA 2 gene.

I was. They could see the horrible mess I was in and the terrible pain, but they were very worried about me. I have two really funny stories of things I said that night. I was heavily medicated. One is short, I'll tell it. I asked if the elephant ears were still on sale. lol

The sunbathing and the heat lamp were to take the place of the wet saline gauze and to help dry up the wounds. This did work. I was so broken open in addition to the surgery that I was in extreme pain. I was not allowed to get out of bed in the hospital so I had a DVT in my lung. The RNs sat in a chair by my side all night. My family thinking I was okay was 2 1/2 hrs. away of which I reminded the nurses.

I have been looking for a post like this for 2 days. Thank you all so very much.

I put my reply in the wrong place. It is just above here.