A short YouTube interview (#shorts) between patient Tiffany and surgeon Robert Whitfield MD about breast implant illness and a related cancer diagnosis. The clinician lists possible symptoms of breast implant illness (brain fog, light/sound sensitivity, dry eyes, cough, nasal congestion, difficulty swallowing, chest tightness, palpitations). Tiffany credits Dr. Whitfield with finding and sending an unusual firm piece of capsule tissue (described as a “little unicorn”) to pathology, which revealed cancer cells and likely saved her life.
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So let's talk about breast implant illness, because that's the word that's. And it depends on how you ask what it is. What is breast implant illness?
So you may have brain fog and light sensitivity and sound sensitivity and dry eyes and a cough and nasal congestion and difficulty swallowing and soreness of breath and chest tightness, pressure racing, you know, heartbeat.
You know, when I found you, I. I mean, it's a blessing in many ways that I found you. And I have been told by oncologist and radiologist that that man in Austin saved your life. And we'll hit that later.
But had it not been sent, you would never know.
And again, I've said this multiple times on oncologist and a radiologist saying that plastic surgeon saved your life, Tiffany, because it would have been too late before we have, if it would have come to fruition, if it would have. I mean, for. For taking the capsule and not, I mean, if you wouldn't have sent it to the pathologist like you said, we wouldn't have known that there was cancer cells there.
Well, there's something very specific about yours, and there's a picture of it in your chart that will always, forever be burnt in my head. Because it's not just taking out your capsule, because anybody, obviously, who wants to do, you know, a capsulectomy or an unblocked resection can do that. But yours had this little unicorn of tissue sticking off of it, and it was very firm. If I had left this portion with you, you would have had a retained cancer.
He saved my life. He saved my life. And he can probably save yours, too.
