Posted on 08/02/2020 7:28:14 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
On the morning of May 1, 2018, I woke up knowing that the day I had anticipated for nine years had finally arrived. It was the day of my preventative double mastectomy – the day I would attack my BRCA 2 genetic mutation head-on and take my chances of breast cancer from 84 percent to virtually zero.
...My faith in Jesus Christ was my strength that day, and those socks were a reminder of how He can turn life’s trials into good.
Several years prior to my mastectomy, I had gotten implants at the recommendation of my doctor... Ordinarily, implants cannot be placed immediately following a mastectomy because of the strain they put on already sensitive skin...
One year down the road, I could not be happier with my decision to have a preventative double mastectomy. In January, I had my final reconstructive surgery. My saline implants were exchanged for silicone ones with appropriate contouring that left me looking almost identical to my pre-mastectomy self.
My post-mastectomy life is not one embattled but emboldened. I live free of fear and full of hope.
In my post-mastectomy life, I could stand before more than a thousand women at Turning Point USA’s Young Women conference in June and say with complete confidence: “I will never die of breast cancer.”
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That was all debunked Democrat lawyer junk science.
Silicone are available everywhere.
They used to make most of the silicone breast implants at a Dow Corning plant in Midland, Michigan, just up the road from where I lived.
I always wondered what it would be like to work there.
“Yeah, I pulled third-shift on the “D” cup line last night.
Conveyor seized up. Helluva mess!”
She's talking about tissue expanders that are filled with saline and implanted to prepare her chest for reconstruction. But, in the final surgery, the much softer silicone is used. Saline might work as an implant placed behind tissue, but maybe not so well for reconstruction, which is what Kayleigh had to have done.
OK, got it.
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