Time to change the Tires!

Good morning everyone!
I hope this blog finds all of you well! Well folks, yesterday I met with my new plastic surgeon, and needless to say I was VERY impressed with him. We hit it off from the get-go. He was kind, courteous and had a great sense of humor, not to mention he took his TIME with me and answered all my questions!

He reconfirmed with me that my 'big day'' is January 27th......Ok.....so I am having a double mascetomy with immediate reconstruction and both breasts will be nipple and skin sparring! Ok.....that's great, given the limited options that I have. Basically in a nut shell, I'll be 'scooped out' on both breasts by my breast surgeon, keep in mind I said 'scooped' out.....they are not cutting my 'girls' off, so I have a flat chest and down the road I'll change my name to "BILL".!!!!!!
No, I'm getting them scooped out! Save the Freckles I say!!!! I mean , I'm going on a cruise next week and am looking forward to getting a tan. So the idea of getting white breast skin from another part of my body and joining the freak circus is NOT what I had in mind!

So after I'm scooped out, my plastic surgeon comes in and inserts these 'expanders', kinda like a small balloon with a metal ring, he injects saline (aka salt water) into the expanders to stretch my skin from my chest wall. This will be done weekly for about 3 -4 weeks. Once my skin is expanded, then I will have saline implants put in. I dont want the gel kind. Not EVEN an option even though 95 pct of his patients in his practice have them.

Nope, no thanks. I'll stick to saline, so IF for some reason I have a leak, he told me I'll know it. And his exact words were " Tracy you'll know it, the one will be smaller than the other. Just call me up and tell me you have a FLAT TIRE, and I'll tell you to come in and have them changed!".... Well folks, that was the line that did it! Ya gotta love a Doctor that talks like that to ya! Sold! I'm in! Where do I sign?

Back to surgery.........so it's about a 4 hour surgery to have both doctors work on me and I should be in the ole hospital for 3-4 days (pending any hematomas!) Dan and I go on our 6 day cruise on Monday and will be back on Saturday the 17th. I meet with Dr. Han (my breast surgeon) on the 21st and will blog after that!

I wish all of you a warm January! I am trying to get Dan to snorkel with me in Belize. I hear the barrier reef there is awesome, so I'm going to close for now, as I have to go out and get an underwater camera for this snorkeling adventure!!!!
Ciao for now!
Trace