Meet the new surgeon

Today we met our new surgeon, Dr. Hartigan. It turns out he's not so new, I had a cyst removed by his partner a few years back. He says we're good candidates for an areola-sparing mastectomy (ASM). He also says that most Europeans don't do mastectomies like we do here, they almost always leave the nipple or the areola. We're also happy that he and our plastic surgeon will be able to work together in the same operation. He says we need an MRI bad to check the other breast for cancer, we agree and couldn't believe our old surgeon didn't want one.