We got it....We got it.........we aint got it!

[Uben]

5. What the heck can you do?

Coincidentally, eight years ago, on Christmas day, my wife awoke to find her torso completely covered with a red rash. It was scarlet fever, the result of an untreated strep infection (she didn't know she had). The infection had attached itself to the implants she had received upon reconstruction after her bi-lateral mastectomy the year before. They had to come out. After going thru the trauma of the cancer, the healing of the reconstruction, now this! She decided to wait a year after the implants were removed to have another recon surgery. This was to give everything ample time to heal. She had the second reconstruction done, this time a latissamal flap, where they take muscle tissue from her back, shove it thru the rib cage, and use it to secure the new implants. It went well, and actually looked much better than the original reconstruction, which was basically a couple of balloons sewed in under the skin.

Christmas is not one of our favorite holidays.