about us video series our stars funding resources news order         womenstories stars rebecca   WomenStories Stars   Priscilla   Jessie   Louise   Patty   Nancy   Teresa   Brenda   Bertha and son   Joan and friend   Paulette and parents   Carolyn & daughter   Louise   Diane and Tom   Valerie and Bob   Elyse and Pat   Terry   Paulette   Milagros   Joan   Ginx   Bertha   Kathy   Pam   Sonya   Veronica   Paulette   Mari   Rebecca   Valerie   Dr. Thelma Hurd   Theresa   Polly   Wendy   Cheryl   Milagros   Liya   Cathy   Ivis   Patty   Babs   Elise   Terry   Ellen   Bertha   Paulette   Rebecca   Cathy   Theresa Rebecca Surgical Choices "I would ask specific questions of the plastic surgeon about the downside of the surgery, bad outcomes that his patients have had. Ignore the fact that he may have had a very small number of these. What you have to do is say, if that happened to me, if I happen to fall in that small group, what would I feel about it? Can I live with that? Can I live with a year and a half of additional surgeries because reconstruction doesn’t happen all at once? It’s staged so an ordinary reconstruction lasts about a year. You go back, and you have saline added to the implants if that’s what you’ve elected. It's an agonizing process that goes over a period of time."