Posted 5/2/2006 6:34 AM (GMT 0)
thanks!
I have been looking into the diep surgery and I would need to find out if radiation damaged the blood supply from the top of my chest, because I may not even be a canidate for diep. I will feel so retarded if I end up canceling the tram flap with Dr. Owsley! It is already scheduled for May 9th and I have had 3 visits with Dr. Owsley to ask my many, many questions. He is so nice and he basically will be doing this surgery pro bono because medicaid has such a low reimbursement! One office in Missoula, MT does diep breast reconstruction using Montana medicaid and they do it for charity!!! I really want to do this reconstruction, but it would really suck if the muscle loss in my abdomen ended up making it difficult to lift, carry, or move anything over 10lbs or 20lbs or even 30lbs! I think it will work out no matter which type I end up doing!!! I will make this decision and I will just apologize to this super nice surgeon if I cancel on him!! I so wish he would do the diep, but it involves microsurgery with a surgey microscope or something and he does not do micro surgery. Dr. Owsley did say there is considerable risk that the diep flaps will not take do to blood supply problems!? I just do not know enough and I do not think very many people do have alot of info on the diep surgery! (Maybe on the east coast, and in California, but not here in Idaho) good luck on your treatments! Ambien helped me survive!! Did they warn you that taxatere and taxol cause permanent nerve damage? Some people end having that prickly and itchy feeling in their hands and feet from the nerve damage... what can we do???? Also due to atypical bipolar type II (similar to manic/depressive, but the manic phase is so mild I just feel a bit hyper!) I have opted to not do tamoxifen because I could not find medication that would reduce the severity of the depressive phases I experience about twice a year! I get so bad that I lose the will to live...it is so sad and depression has been such a major challenge since I was itty bitty! I did not even know what was wrong with me until I was 28!!!! So very sad and I am so glad depression is coming out in the open and also we are diagnosing it so much earlier! Shoot I am not going to proof read this so I apologize for any stupid errors! take care, Karen