Re: Belive Me, You Don't Want a Lumpectomy!
- From: "Aggie" <aghw111@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:53:31 GMT
Yes, there are people who will argue to no end that radiation is safe and
people are foolish worring about it. I should post a picture of my
mother
up here so you can see how it twisted the bones in her rib cage and how
it
wrecked her veins so badly she ended up with a huge ugly flap on her
stomach
as well. She's a real monster.
"J" <xewsnswex@nalid;"no> wrote in message
news:48B09926.FD285EC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Yes. Let us see it.
What year and city did this happen? And her age?
And did she have vasculitis or smoke?
Which flap did she have done? Diep, tram or ?
I think those are done after mastectomy, right?
Some people felt rushed into decisions. Some women, now, wait a year or
more,
before deciding on reconstruction.
Both in BC or Alta?
JWow, I can see I'm talking to a brilliant person here. You have asked some
Aggie wrote:
excellent questions which do make a difference. One reward she did receive
for her freakish monsterosity was extra life. She had it done in either AB
or BC 38 years ago (don't know which one she was living in then) and got it
in her other breast 10 years ago in BC. She's now in her 80's. No she
didn't have vasculitis or smoke. She was healthy, excercised non-stop, and
weighed 100 pounds. Never had an ounce of fat on her body. (She now
weighs 90). She didn't have the BCA1 or 2 gene or whatever it's called.
I'm not sure which flap she had done but it was across her stomach to fix
some kind of vein in there. The flap was done in BC about 10 years ago. I
understand that radiation today isn't as bad, although the site of her still
freaks me to the point of nausea and terrifies me to death of all radiation,
especially since they mention that after you get it, you will be firm, or in
other words, slightly cooked. She never did have reconstruction which I
think was a terrible mistake as she really does look like a movie monster
now. I've even had nightmares about her looks.
I myself felt very rushed into things because they were too efficient here,
I guess you could say, booking my surgery only about 20 days after the
biopsy, so I had very little time to find out anything and was in a most
horrid state of shock and anxiety throughout, (probably the worst they had
ever seen because they called in others). Desperately I stayed up late at
night for hours trying to find answer to thousands of questions in such a
short time. Thank God I had an excellent surgeon, which is likely the very
best in my city, but I don't have any trust in medical science. In the end
I was so confused I let him decide on the final procedure because I was too
exhausted to go further. I wanted the masectomy so I wouldn't need
radiation, yet he could tell I was also terrified of it. So I just kind of
closed my eyes and let him decide, hoping he would do a double masectomy and
yet was fearful of it. When I woke up I had the lumpectomy so I can't say
he did a bad job. In fact, in spite of the terrible pain of a lumpectomy,
he probably did the best job I ever imagined a surgeon could do, even with
the best anaesthetic available (never had any serious throat spasm pain like
usual and wasn't even sick afterward because he put some kind of muscle
relaxant in it I think). He also did neat work so I was totally amazed at
his abilities and believe he was the most attentive and brilliant doctor I
had ever seen in my life. It's just that now I'm forever terrified of the
high liklihood of it coming back because I don't want the radiation he
recommends. Again, although I trust this extremely brainy and wonderful
surgeon who I think is nearly perfect by all standards, I still don't trust
medical science at all because it focuses too much on unnatural things and
cutting people up while natural medicine focuses on natural cures without
invasive procedures. I wish medicine wouldn't hate natural medicine
providers so much and would work with them instead of against them. I
secretly still wish the masectomy had been done so I would know that the
chances of it coming back would be much lower and I wouldn't need radiation.
I strongly feel my surgeon was pushed by the institution to push for
lumpectomy because it saved so much in hospital costs and being an older
woman with lower income, I was a perfect candidate for this procedure which
I still understand is under experimentation. I'm not sure he would've
chosen that alternative had he not been coerced into it by the
institution/organization he worked for because the guys at the top cancer
organizations in the country are trying to "push" this cheap method on to
any woman they possibly can. People may not have nighmares by MY looks as
I did with my mother, but I doubt I will live as long with this method, or
live without having to endure much more torturous pain, anxiety, and surgery
in the future as a result of it.
.
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