Good news. My Mom only has to have one mastectomy, on the right side. The left side is benign. She will meet with the plastic surgeon on March 8th and go for surgery March 30th. She will spend the night in the hospital (possibly two nights,) and come home with a drainage tube and a "place holder" breast. What that means is that they will not be doing the reconstruction after the mastectomy until she is healed, instead they will put in a temporary "place holder" to keep the skin where they want it.
After two to three weeks the drainage tube will come out but she's still not allowed to do anything. Not for a total of four weeks. Then she will have a few smaller surgeries to finish the reconstruction. In the long run, those reconstruction surgeries should seem like cake after the mastectomy.
On a side note, my morning sickness is almost completely gone! My appetite has returned and now I'm finding myself hungry all the time. I have my next OB appointment the first week of March. I've declined doing the genetic testing. Tony and I don't have any known history of genetic diseases and it really just seemed like one more thing to worry about. At this point everything looks really good so why find something to worry about?
