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Dimpling
I really need understanding. About 3 months ago I noticed some dimpling on my rt breast around the areola. It's not painful, there is no swelling, itching or burning. No lump in or around the area. Just the dimpling. Does anyone know about this and what it could be? I have an appointment scheduled tomorrow with my doctor, but the more I read, the more I couldn't help but do this post. Has anyone else experienced something like this? After reading all types of posts - I'm starting to get a little worried. Anyone? Any information? Do I have anything to be worried about?
Thank you!
Thank you!
Annette, I am saying prayers for your Dad and for you and your family! I will pray for strength for you and grace and peace for your Dad during this time. Please keep me updated as to his progress. I have also passed this situation on to Bunny and Joyce for more prayers.
Prayers from Georgia,
Judy
Prayers from Georgia,
Judy
Hi Judy,
Not a good week, I am so stressed out. I have pains in my shoulders and neck and twinges in my chest from stress. Dad is not well at all, his kidney's are failing and he is trying to go AWOL. Mam is having a horrid time trying to keep him in the hospital. Today the Renal Consultant told Mam and Dad that his bloods via kidneys was not good. They need them to go up (don't have more info). They have given Dad a few blood tranfusions already. They will be doing loads of blood tests on Mon and Tues and if there is no improvement he will be put on dialysis. The doctor told Dad he was a very sick man. Dad was so upset at the thought of dialysis and Mam was in shock. They also told them Dad's heart is weak and Dad is still on constant oxygen for the lungs. The only good thing is that he was not coughing at all today. Dad is convinced he is dying and is very upset, having panic attacks and basically loosing it. He has not eaten in 3 days or slept. He is afraid to go asleep in case he will die on his own. This is deja vous, like my Grandmother. My sister went up with Mam this evening. Dad was sitting in the corridor insisting on going home. After much negotiation with the nurses he agreed to stay and take a sedative but only on the condition that Mam stays with him all night. So my 72 year old mother who is just over surgery herself is sitting in a chair with her legs up on a stool besside my 79 year old Dad all night. My sister Babs is going back in the morning for 8.00am to relieve her. They are allowing Dad home for 2 hours tomorrow to help give him a boost as my parents only live a 2 minute drive from the hospital. I am bringing the boys up to see Dad at home and Babs is bringing up her girls. It is going to be very hard tomorrow as I know Dad will get emotional and as will all of us. The worry is then getting him back into the hospital. Mam cannot sit with him all night every night. We will need to speak to the doctors urgently on Monday. Dad has given up all hope and wants the family around him on Sunday in the hospital to pray with him. He will not leave the rossary beads out of this hands. It is really heartbreaking to see. I have always been so close to both my parents and guess being the eldest, I am Dads pet. So please say a prayer for my Dad.
We have had 27 stressful and crappy months, full of stress, worry, sickness etc. Just for once I want our luck to change and get a chance to enjoy life stressfree for a while. I wish the tide would turn.
Any hope enough self pity. Lets be optimistic and think of where we are going to celebrate Dad's 80th birthday party!!.
Take care Judy,
Annette
Not a good week, I am so stressed out. I have pains in my shoulders and neck and twinges in my chest from stress. Dad is not well at all, his kidney's are failing and he is trying to go AWOL. Mam is having a horrid time trying to keep him in the hospital. Today the Renal Consultant told Mam and Dad that his bloods via kidneys was not good. They need them to go up (don't have more info). They have given Dad a few blood tranfusions already. They will be doing loads of blood tests on Mon and Tues and if there is no improvement he will be put on dialysis. The doctor told Dad he was a very sick man. Dad was so upset at the thought of dialysis and Mam was in shock. They also told them Dad's heart is weak and Dad is still on constant oxygen for the lungs. The only good thing is that he was not coughing at all today. Dad is convinced he is dying and is very upset, having panic attacks and basically loosing it. He has not eaten in 3 days or slept. He is afraid to go asleep in case he will die on his own. This is deja vous, like my Grandmother. My sister went up with Mam this evening. Dad was sitting in the corridor insisting on going home. After much negotiation with the nurses he agreed to stay and take a sedative but only on the condition that Mam stays with him all night. So my 72 year old mother who is just over surgery herself is sitting in a chair with her legs up on a stool besside my 79 year old Dad all night. My sister Babs is going back in the morning for 8.00am to relieve her. They are allowing Dad home for 2 hours tomorrow to help give him a boost as my parents only live a 2 minute drive from the hospital. I am bringing the boys up to see Dad at home and Babs is bringing up her girls. It is going to be very hard tomorrow as I know Dad will get emotional and as will all of us. The worry is then getting him back into the hospital. Mam cannot sit with him all night every night. We will need to speak to the doctors urgently on Monday. Dad has given up all hope and wants the family around him on Sunday in the hospital to pray with him. He will not leave the rossary beads out of this hands. It is really heartbreaking to see. I have always been so close to both my parents and guess being the eldest, I am Dads pet. So please say a prayer for my Dad.
We have had 27 stressful and crappy months, full of stress, worry, sickness etc. Just for once I want our luck to change and get a chance to enjoy life stressfree for a while. I wish the tide would turn.
Any hope enough self pity. Lets be optimistic and think of where we are going to celebrate Dad's 80th birthday party!!.
Take care Judy,
Annette
Hi Annette,
I'm also so glad to hear that your Mom is doing so good. Yea! And your Dad sounds like you are now having progress on his end. At least they now know how to treat it. I will continue to say prayers for both your parents.
The 'hen' party sounds like so much fun. I know that you will have a blast and look great showing off your new hair do. I have always thought it was fun to dress up every now and then.
I went to the doc again today and had another 'expansion'. :-D It is really quite a laughing matter watching the procedure. When I had my double mastectomy it left me totally flat. The plastic surgeon came in right behind my general surgeon and put in what is called expanders. They are a hard mesh plastic .... pouch. Empty. 3 weeks after my sugery I went and being that the skin over the area had healed well and 'relaxed'
some, my plastic doc put in 150 cc in each expander. Walah! I had a good A (maybe large AA) . Well, I waited 2 weeks for my skin to once again relax after that expansion and went in today for my 2nd expansion and received another 100 cc's in each exander. Now, I am a small B. lol It looks like a balloon being blown up. He simply inserts a needle into a certain place in the expander and injects saline solution. When I get to the size I desire, I will have outpatient sugery and replace the hard, sometimes uncomfortable expanders with silicone implants. Which should be much more natural looking and comfortable. 2 months after that surgery the doc will graft a nipple for me and then a couple of weeks later tatoo it to make it, shall I say, life-like. The injection area is 90% numb due to the mastecomy surgery, but my doc deadens the rest before the injection of saline solution. That's it. The reconstruction that you referred to was for people who have a little more stomach than me. I was not a good candiate for that reconstruction, tram-flap reconstruction, due to being small. That's it. I'll probably be done with everything around August.
Any who, I hope you had a good day today.
Hugs,
Judy
I'm also so glad to hear that your Mom is doing so good. Yea! And your Dad sounds like you are now having progress on his end. At least they now know how to treat it. I will continue to say prayers for both your parents.
The 'hen' party sounds like so much fun. I know that you will have a blast and look great showing off your new hair do. I have always thought it was fun to dress up every now and then.
I went to the doc again today and had another 'expansion'. :-D It is really quite a laughing matter watching the procedure. When I had my double mastectomy it left me totally flat. The plastic surgeon came in right behind my general surgeon and put in what is called expanders. They are a hard mesh plastic .... pouch. Empty. 3 weeks after my sugery I went and being that the skin over the area had healed well and 'relaxed'
some, my plastic doc put in 150 cc in each expander. Walah! I had a good A (maybe large AA) . Well, I waited 2 weeks for my skin to once again relax after that expansion and went in today for my 2nd expansion and received another 100 cc's in each exander. Now, I am a small B. lol It looks like a balloon being blown up. He simply inserts a needle into a certain place in the expander and injects saline solution. When I get to the size I desire, I will have outpatient sugery and replace the hard, sometimes uncomfortable expanders with silicone implants. Which should be much more natural looking and comfortable. 2 months after that surgery the doc will graft a nipple for me and then a couple of weeks later tatoo it to make it, shall I say, life-like. The injection area is 90% numb due to the mastecomy surgery, but my doc deadens the rest before the injection of saline solution. That's it. The reconstruction that you referred to was for people who have a little more stomach than me. I was not a good candiate for that reconstruction, tram-flap reconstruction, due to being small. That's it. I'll probably be done with everything around August.
Any who, I hope you had a good day today.
Hugs,
Judy
Hi Judy,
I had to laugh at your grandson, they think there are being so helpful and good. Conor does not always tell you when he wants to go. You have to bring him to the toilet and potty and put it out there. We are a large garden and Luke has a tendency to wee beside the trees, being one with nature and all that. Last week I looked out the window to find Luke with his willie out and helping Conor gets his out. The two of them stood there exposing themselves, pants down by the angles and fountains of wee coming out. They both looked very happy with themselves. Luke them helped Conor with his trouser and closed his jacket for him again and then both of them went back to digging in the muck!!! I only wish I had the camera to capture it.
Dad will be in hospital for another week. He does not have pneumonia but a condition called Henoch Schonlein Purpura. It is more common amoung children. He has the rash on his lung. Remember about 10 weeks ago Dad was in hospital for 4 weeks when Mam was in getting her knee done with poor breathing and the weird rash, well this is related but now they have ruled out the kidneys which is good, but it is still on the inside of the lung and causing the lung to bleed a bit. He is on a treatment of a blood transfusion and steriods.
Mam got good news today. Her surgeon is very happy with her progress and she can reduce to one stick now and then in another week no sticks if she feels confident enough. He is also going to let her drive which is great for her independence. He said he has one SUPER patient every year and that Mam was his SUPER patient for 2008, her progress has been brillant - must have been all the rest I gave her last week!!!!
Back to work today after the holiday and all went fine. Due to visit the Oncologist on 23rd April for my 3 month check up. There is a new guy taking over in my hospital and I have heard reports that he is good. Hopefully I will never really need his services.
I have a Hen party on 11th April in Dublin. Carmel is my friend since we were 12 years old. She got married last August in South Africa to a guy from the Congo. They only knew each other a couple of months and he is 10 years younger. We were all dubious at first but I have met him and he seems like a really nice guy and she is just so happy. So the Hen party is very belated but she deserves to have one. We are going to a Japanese restaurant and Karoche bar. Now Judy I do have many talents, but I can assure you singing is not one of them. I suppose if I have a few bacardi's I'll probably get up and sing anyway. In some ways cancer liberates you, I just don't care about silly things anymore and am not as self conscious, so what if I am rubbish and people laugh, at least I will be having fun.
They are having a wedding party on 19th April in a hotel near Dublin airport. There will be a family meal first and then a party with food and a disco, lets boogy on down - I can feel the knees aching already!!! There will be about 60 to 70 people at the party and we will be bringing all our partners. Normally they only meet each other at weddings as we tend to have girls nights out for a good ould gossiping session and well, men just get in the way.
Hope to call up to Dad on Wed after work and then I am meeting my friend Paula for dinner. I have not seen her since end Nov last week. We have arranged to meet countless times but I had to cancel all the arrangements with Mam and Dad being in and out of hospital. I think we'll go Italian!
I think purple may be a bit dramatic, how about platinum blond, you said you like being blond. I hate to be nosey but because I did not have reconstruction, can you explain what expanders are etc and what is involved in the operation. I thought they took muscle from another part of your body to fill the breast area?
So on that note, I will bid you good night and have a great week.
Your friend
Annette
I had to laugh at your grandson, they think there are being so helpful and good. Conor does not always tell you when he wants to go. You have to bring him to the toilet and potty and put it out there. We are a large garden and Luke has a tendency to wee beside the trees, being one with nature and all that. Last week I looked out the window to find Luke with his willie out and helping Conor gets his out. The two of them stood there exposing themselves, pants down by the angles and fountains of wee coming out. They both looked very happy with themselves. Luke them helped Conor with his trouser and closed his jacket for him again and then both of them went back to digging in the muck!!! I only wish I had the camera to capture it.
Dad will be in hospital for another week. He does not have pneumonia but a condition called Henoch Schonlein Purpura. It is more common amoung children. He has the rash on his lung. Remember about 10 weeks ago Dad was in hospital for 4 weeks when Mam was in getting her knee done with poor breathing and the weird rash, well this is related but now they have ruled out the kidneys which is good, but it is still on the inside of the lung and causing the lung to bleed a bit. He is on a treatment of a blood transfusion and steriods.
Mam got good news today. Her surgeon is very happy with her progress and she can reduce to one stick now and then in another week no sticks if she feels confident enough. He is also going to let her drive which is great for her independence. He said he has one SUPER patient every year and that Mam was his SUPER patient for 2008, her progress has been brillant - must have been all the rest I gave her last week!!!!
Back to work today after the holiday and all went fine. Due to visit the Oncologist on 23rd April for my 3 month check up. There is a new guy taking over in my hospital and I have heard reports that he is good. Hopefully I will never really need his services.
I have a Hen party on 11th April in Dublin. Carmel is my friend since we were 12 years old. She got married last August in South Africa to a guy from the Congo. They only knew each other a couple of months and he is 10 years younger. We were all dubious at first but I have met him and he seems like a really nice guy and she is just so happy. So the Hen party is very belated but she deserves to have one. We are going to a Japanese restaurant and Karoche bar. Now Judy I do have many talents, but I can assure you singing is not one of them. I suppose if I have a few bacardi's I'll probably get up and sing anyway. In some ways cancer liberates you, I just don't care about silly things anymore and am not as self conscious, so what if I am rubbish and people laugh, at least I will be having fun.
They are having a wedding party on 19th April in a hotel near Dublin airport. There will be a family meal first and then a party with food and a disco, lets boogy on down - I can feel the knees aching already!!! There will be about 60 to 70 people at the party and we will be bringing all our partners. Normally they only meet each other at weddings as we tend to have girls nights out for a good ould gossiping session and well, men just get in the way.
Hope to call up to Dad on Wed after work and then I am meeting my friend Paula for dinner. I have not seen her since end Nov last week. We have arranged to meet countless times but I had to cancel all the arrangements with Mam and Dad being in and out of hospital. I think we'll go Italian!
I think purple may be a bit dramatic, how about platinum blond, you said you like being blond. I hate to be nosey but because I did not have reconstruction, can you explain what expanders are etc and what is involved in the operation. I thought they took muscle from another part of your body to fill the breast area?
So on that note, I will bid you good night and have a great week.
Your friend
Annette
Hi Annette,
Glad to hear that your Dad is doing better after the 'chat'. And it is so good that your Mom has you to take care of her house and drive her back and forth to the hospital. How tired you must be some days.
Wahoo on your first haricut! I bet it looks wonderful! My hair has started growing back about three weeks ago and quite fast I might add. It is salt and pepper with more salt than pepper. So, I may end up a very young gray haired lady. At this point, I would love it if it came out purple. :-D
The doc says that Jazzercise is out of the question until I am done with absolutely everything, surgery wise. I will have several more visits for my expanders and then the surgery to replace them with silcone implants and then the surgery for the nipples. Hmmmmm....personally, I do not think it will take till October. I'm thinking more like June or July. Of course, I have always been overly optimistic. So we shall see.
Good job on potty training Conor! My little grandson who is 3 years old has been potty trained and now whenever they go on long trips he lets them know when he has to potty. Now sometimes he does not give his Mom much notice and one time in a rural area she had to pull over to the side of the road and he happly did his business. Number 1 of course. It is a very laughing matter sometime. After his first camping trip in 2007 he learned to potty in the woods and a few days after that decided that it was ok to potty in the front yard. :-D One time he brought his poop to his Mom in his hand wanting to show her he had pooped. lol. So, having said all this, I know you have your hands full with Conor right now.
Well, back to cleaning the house. (just a little bit) I hope you have a good Monday Annette.
Take care,
Judy
Glad to hear that your Dad is doing better after the 'chat'. And it is so good that your Mom has you to take care of her house and drive her back and forth to the hospital. How tired you must be some days.
Wahoo on your first haricut! I bet it looks wonderful! My hair has started growing back about three weeks ago and quite fast I might add. It is salt and pepper with more salt than pepper. So, I may end up a very young gray haired lady. At this point, I would love it if it came out purple. :-D
The doc says that Jazzercise is out of the question until I am done with absolutely everything, surgery wise. I will have several more visits for my expanders and then the surgery to replace them with silcone implants and then the surgery for the nipples. Hmmmmm....personally, I do not think it will take till October. I'm thinking more like June or July. Of course, I have always been overly optimistic. So we shall see.
Good job on potty training Conor! My little grandson who is 3 years old has been potty trained and now whenever they go on long trips he lets them know when he has to potty. Now sometimes he does not give his Mom much notice and one time in a rural area she had to pull over to the side of the road and he happly did his business. Number 1 of course. It is a very laughing matter sometime. After his first camping trip in 2007 he learned to potty in the woods and a few days after that decided that it was ok to potty in the front yard. :-D One time he brought his poop to his Mom in his hand wanting to show her he had pooped. lol. So, having said all this, I know you have your hands full with Conor right now.
Well, back to cleaning the house. (just a little bit) I hope you have a good Monday Annette.
Take care,
Judy
Hi Judy,
I did have a nice Easter but sick of chocolate at this stage. The boys each got about 6 eggs each and there is still loads of chocolate floating around.
Brought Mam out for dinner on Easter Sunday. Dad is still in hospital and come not come.
Last week was good yet tiring. I cleaned Mam's house from top to bottom and made her take a rest. I brought Mam up to see Dad every afternoon in hospital and then I went up to see him every evening and then went for a walk. Dad is now on his 4th antibiotics for the pneumonia and has been put back on sterioids again. He would be on the mend when Mam saw him in the afternoon and then come my visit he would have deteriorated and his breathing would be very bad. I spoke with the Respiratory Consultant and Renal Consultants during the week and left them in no doubt that I was not happy with the lack of progress with Dad. Dad has also tested positive for MRSA in his nose. Thankfully he is not post operative otherwise this would be fatal.
It looks like the latest antiobitics are working and he is due another xray on Monday. Defnitiely there are paying a much closer eye on him since my "little chat" with them.
Potty training was mixed last week. Conor would be doing great and then all of a sudden an accident. Having said that he is doing quite well, but suffice to say that I bought a new mop today in the shop for washing pissy floors!!!
Luke had a ball down in Waterford, did not want to come home at all. So many animals and horses with the inlaws.
Had my first hair cut in the hairdressers yesterday. He cut it dry as it is easier to see how much is coming off the length. I have to say that he took just the right amount. It is getting there and I hope I will have a nice style and a few copper highlights just before we head to Sweden.
Back to work on Monday, the holiday just flew.
Great that you settled into your new job. Any size of hair appearing on your head yet? How long before you can go back to jazzercise?
Take care, have to go now, Conor has had a potty accident!!!
I did have a nice Easter but sick of chocolate at this stage. The boys each got about 6 eggs each and there is still loads of chocolate floating around.
Brought Mam out for dinner on Easter Sunday. Dad is still in hospital and come not come.
Last week was good yet tiring. I cleaned Mam's house from top to bottom and made her take a rest. I brought Mam up to see Dad every afternoon in hospital and then I went up to see him every evening and then went for a walk. Dad is now on his 4th antibiotics for the pneumonia and has been put back on sterioids again. He would be on the mend when Mam saw him in the afternoon and then come my visit he would have deteriorated and his breathing would be very bad. I spoke with the Respiratory Consultant and Renal Consultants during the week and left them in no doubt that I was not happy with the lack of progress with Dad. Dad has also tested positive for MRSA in his nose. Thankfully he is not post operative otherwise this would be fatal.
It looks like the latest antiobitics are working and he is due another xray on Monday. Defnitiely there are paying a much closer eye on him since my "little chat" with them.
Potty training was mixed last week. Conor would be doing great and then all of a sudden an accident. Having said that he is doing quite well, but suffice to say that I bought a new mop today in the shop for washing pissy floors!!!
Luke had a ball down in Waterford, did not want to come home at all. So many animals and horses with the inlaws.
Had my first hair cut in the hairdressers yesterday. He cut it dry as it is easier to see how much is coming off the length. I have to say that he took just the right amount. It is getting there and I hope I will have a nice style and a few copper highlights just before we head to Sweden.
Back to work on Monday, the holiday just flew.
Great that you settled into your new job. Any size of hair appearing on your head yet? How long before you can go back to jazzercise?
Take care, have to go now, Conor has had a potty accident!!!
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