I made a mistake on my last post, I asked the surgeon again and when the tissue expander was placed in Bug's shoulder they filled it with 60cc (same as ml) of fluid. At her first 'fill' he added 30cc of fluid. At the second 'fill' he added 25cc of fluid (she was better at speaking up to say it was getting to tight so he sucked a bit back out). This brings her 'balloon' to a total of 115cc of fluid. For now. Until Wednesday. We go every 2 weeks for more fluid. This particular tissue expander is a 140ml expander but the surgeon has said he will 'over expand', but I'm not sure how that works, though I trust it will be safe, if he's willing to do it and I have heard that many surgeons in this field do this. We were originally told the expander would be in for 3 months plus but at the rate we are going I'm beginning to wonder. Anyway, here are some pictures of the progress.
This was after the 2nd 'fill', with the expander now at 115ml.
Right after surgery.
PreSurgery, you can see the dark area they were biopsying and that is the same area we hope to remove with the expanded tissue.
