Pace has been in a lot of pain for the last couple of week and a half. Saturday was the first time that the pain was less than the day before.Today was another tough day. I think part of it is the bandage comes off tomorrow and Pace will see for the first time the results of her surgery.
I'd find it tough. There will be stitches and cuts where the drains were and her chest is going look different than the one she's had for a lifetime. The docs have said they'd make the scars as low on the breast as they can, but they didn't say she'd have no scars.
Pace will have no nipples. Turns out they're made of breast tissue as well, duh! Dr. Rami told us of times that they transplanted the nipples to the thigh in order to save them for reattachment later once the plastic surgery had healed; some of these people developed breast cancer in the skin where they'd been temporarily located until retransplanted.
Reconstruction of the nipple is possible how they do it is facinating in a weird way. They either fold the skin back on itself or graft skin from somewhere else on the body if you want to see what it looks like follow this link and scroll down or there is the option of going for a tatooed nipple, that's one work of art that'd be tough to perform.
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