Mastectomy Bras are Trendy

Zipped up to Mayo today with Dad for a quick (literally, 10 minutes) appointment with my plastic surgeon from my mid-April surgery. She checked out my scars from the surgery, appeared impressed with my near-full range of motion, my attitude (I'm back painting walls in my house, so I must be fine), and started discussing plans for reconstruction after my one year clean bill of health (fingers crossed). My favorite part of the appointment came at the end when she told me to stop working out. She jokingly frowned at me for losing weight after my surgery (though not through any real effort, I think it was really just the last of the steroid puffiness, because I'm not down much on pounds). Because my reconstruction will involve using tissue from my tummy, it makes her job MUCH easier if she has a little tumm to deal with. She said, "you're skinny now, don't get skinnier." Ha. Love the woman. Seriously. We agreed the simplest thing for everyone involved is that I just shouldn't get cancer again. It's nice to have doctors on the same page that I am. : )

We have a call in with my Mayo oncologist to get the ball rolling again on my quarterly screenings -- I'm due next week if we stay on schedule, but we're not sure if he wants to delay a bit or not. Likely it will be a chest x-ray this time just to minimize the radiation as much as we can. Then I'll probably go back on the CT/x-ray routine for a few years... hopefully with no setbacks this time.

Since I was at Mayo anyway I stopped by the shop in the bottom of the Kahler that carries mastectomy bras and found out three things: 1. The fitters always hug you as you get ready to leave (2 for 2, anyway), 2. Awesome! I can get these in a strapless model! and 3. My pink cheetah print version will be here at the end of the month.

I'm going to have a milkshake.

: )
Carpe diem. - Trela