Monday, February 9, 2009

New Nips

Hello readers,

For those of you who just met me this year, I'll give you a quick breakdown about my mom. She's basically been through hell and back the last 4 years. She had a stroke, and then had some crappy breast cancer. She made a full recovery from both after a long time, but she had to have a bunch of reconstructive surgeries to repair the damage done to her breasts and so on.

Today is the last phase of the surgeries. Nipple reconstruction. Yep, I said it. Nipple reconstruction. She's got the new boobs and all that jazz, but they needed to get this last phase completed. It is kind of weird how they are making her nipple too...I guess for fun I'll try to explain it to the best of my ability. They are going to take a slab of meat from her thigh and make them look like nipples.

Here (courtesy of: Mayo Foundation) is a picture of how it will transform:

Wooooooah weeeeeirrrrd. I'm thankful for my all natural chocolate chip nips.

As I was typing this, I was texting my dad to get updates on how everything was going. This was his exact response word-for word:
"They put on Pigs nipples and had a hard time catching the pig. They caught it so it wont be long now. We got scared because the doctor was going to use a cows nipple if they couldnt catch it...those wouldve been some big nipples"

In all seriousness, the surgery went well. Mom will be home by 6pm with her new and improved Nips. Thanks for bearing through this one.

1 comment:

  1. aww i almost cried when i read the first paragraph, but then the pig thing totally cracked me up. i'm glad everything went well. send Dee my love please!
    ~Katie
    ps. i had no idea you had a blog thingy again!?

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