I've missed you all! Been in Hosp..finally back to my couch and in recovery mode with my kids!

Hi all....just an update.. Since my March 15th Bilateral Mastectomy with immediate tissue expander implants-home to recover for few days UNTIL bad reaction appeared on my forth day home March 19th (my Bday)...Hot flashes,rash on site and under arms..itched like a (bleep bleep)...chills to heaviness in chest to eventually rushing up to ER. (SENT home after huge intake of IV benedryl stayed few hrs and sent back home-few days later experienced SAME symptoms but led into much worse...Anaphylactic reaction....nine epi pens later with an immediate surgery to REMOVE the aloe derm/tissue expanders that they put in after my original surgery. I KNEW SOMETHING was wrong immediately after my double mastectomy..the unbearable pain WHICH I KNOW IS COMMON..it just never got getter nor the weight and heaviness on my small chested frame. It always appeared difficult to catch my breath and breath without discomfort and true deep inside pain..always a rash and itched like mad and even my drainage color turned drastic color...spent four days in ICU and was a week today that i was discharged. Anyway, I re tell this or anxious to get feedback as to asking anyone if they had ever heard of this.. A woman having a reaction to the tissue expanders and or aloe derm? My surgeon refuses to believe its due to them but saw for himself the immediate relief after remaoval. NO TO ANY ALLERGIES TO ANYTHING in my life and ate nothing differently (barely had an appetite to eat) I am seeing an allergist to see several possibilities but I KNOW MY BODY AND MY body was NOT happy with having such foreign substance in me and was trying to let me know. This may not tell us 100% what it was i reacted to but i just know how i feel today as opposed to then..Taking same pain meds everything else what i took or ate or used before and have ZERO signs or symptoms of anything. I WISH they would keep CANCER surgeons and everyday plastic surgeons separate as He is still puzzled but not convinced it was the expanders as he states he does hundreds thousands..and has never had a patient react to the implants and that discomfort was to be expected. (DISCOMFORT>>> i SAY tru PAIN)...I have been on a strong antibiotic since (sent home with a neck pick line so i can receive my antibiotic treatmnts) i have one more week of this feel better and stronger and ANXIOUS TO GET MY CHEMO done after i finish this! I am greatly disheartened that all of this mess put my chemo behind but ....just stay positive and tell myself and kids that its best as had this happened during Chemo..oh hell, who knows but know how difficult it was to fight being semi healthy. ANYWAYS...back to my couch and catching up on all of your beautiful heart felt discussions. Me and my three kids all hope you had a wonderful holiday wknd! Love Mequon MOM of 3...mmo3 My heart and thoughts and positive energies all go out to each and every one of you HUGS and missed u all