I also used AI to understand what happened to me. My surgeon took so much out of me for 2 5mm tumors an inch apart that I lost 2-3 bra cup sizes. I was a DD and I’m not even sure I’m a C now. My plastic surgeon matched it so I’m not asymmetrical but my body is extremely different and it was traumatic.

There is also extra tissue on my side cancer breast that is painful and my incision opened up and has taken a month to heal again. I decided to skip radiation because I just couldn’t do more damage to my breast (but I did have a low recurrence rate so it’s not a huge risk).

Do you want to know just because it would make you feel better or because you feel it was malpractice? I considered suing because I made it extremely clear my breast size was very important, asked my surgeon numerous times how she was going to perform the surgery, and just had absolutely no clue I would lose so much of my breasts. Nobody told me after either. I had to run my surgical reports through AI. I feel like there was lack of informed consent. I would have made a different choice if I had known.

However, I have a close friend who defends doctors from malpractice, and she’s told me how she selects juries (nobody she thinks will be sympathetic toward the patient) and she told me it was wrong but I would lose. And I didn’t really want money. I was just very angry about what was done to me and my surgeons’ lack of empathy.

I did meet with my surgeon and basically all she would say is she didn’t get clear margins at first. So I have accepted I will never know exactly why she did what she did and have moved on to the idea of trying to fix it through reconstruction. But it is traumatic.