One More Little Stitch

I have found one learns so much when they are involved in a major medical issue.  I know more about breast cancer and treatment than I would ever think.  Now the reconstructive surgery has educated me more.  I last saw the nurse at Dr. Logan's office the last of October and she was suppose to look for and remove any stray stitches.  I actually found one and pulled it out while she was looking for tweezers and that was all she really did.  I found her to be rather uncomfortable looking closely at my reconstructed nipple which in reality looks rather perfect and odd.  So, as time as progressed there are numerous stitches that are not dissolving and so I have gone into nurse mode.  But, let me tell you it is very ackward trying to pull the stitch with tweeters and then take my very tiny and very sharp sissors to snip the stitch so it will pull out.  I currently have one stitch left out of about 5 of them and that puppy is on the bottom side of my new mega-nipple and I cannot see it without the use of a mirror and the thought of using sharp sissors in an area I cannot see except backwards in a mirror is not very comforting so that stitch is still there.  it does help that I have no feeling in that area so if I do nip myself it may bleed but it will not hurt.  :)  I do go back to see Dr. Logan one more time on the 12th of December and it worse comes to worse I can leave that last one until then and he can pull it out. 

I do wish he had reduced the reconstruction a little more but it is so much better than before that I really can't complain and I will not go through another surgery just to do a little tweaking again.  I will ask if I lose weight overall will I lose in that breast which is really just belly fat.  I have googled it (because that is what I do) and there is conflicting information about yes or no.

It is time to get ready for work as I am in Centreville and then in Berrien this afternoon so I will try to come back and write more later today or tomorrow.