

Which is why I have to tell my husband and friends to be on boobie watch, because I legit just can’t feel when they’re all exposed. When the breast tissue is removed, all the nerves are cut and most people never regain any kind of sensation to their breasts.

The incision site may vary depending on if you are a candidate for a nipple sparing mastectomy (and get to keep your natural nipples) or not (no nips for me). So, when a mastectomy is completed, the surgeon goes in through an incision and removes all the breast tissue.

It became my anthem for those appointments. I would sing to myself “Why do you fill me up, fill me up, buttercup, baby? Just to let me down…” every time I went in for a fill. When I last left off, I was healing from surgery and about to start the process of getting my tissue expander filled. Normal is good, even if some days my head is spinning to keep up. Things are pretty much back to normal after my mastectomy, which means busy doing all the things- work, cleaning, making sure my family eats real food, swim practice, soccer practice, so.much.laundry, catching up with friends. That compares to a 2.0-Bcf/d uptick in production during the winter of 2015-16 and more than 1.0 Bcf/d the year before that in the winter of 2014-15.Hey there! I’ve been quiet for a while because #life. By November, however, they had recovered to that February 2016 level just above 20 Bcf/d, and over the winter months, through March 2017, regional production grew by a little more than 500 MMcf/d to about 20.8 Bcf/d. Then, storage constraints and mild demand, along with maintenance-related pipeline outages, pushed volumes down to 19 Bcf/d in October 2016. After an initial bump in January and February 2016 to more than 20 Bcf/d, gas production flows from the region, based on pipeline flow data from our friends at Genscape, pulled back to around 19.7 Bcf/d and hung right around there for much of the year. Where is all that capacity headed? In today’s blog, we look at recent and upcoming capacity additions that will affect the gas market this winter season.Īt this time last winter, Northeast gas production had just recovered from its seasonal dip that happens in the fall “shoulder season” - the time of the year when summer cooling demand is waning and winter heating demand has yet to show up. Even at partial utilization through the winter, that’s a lot of capacity that could flood the market with new supply. Moreover, another ~4.3 Bcf/d in new takeaway capacity either was approved for in-service last week or is expected online before March 2018. These gains have been made possible because of the numerous pipeline projects that have added takeaway capacity from the region, about 2.4 Bcf/d since last winter alone. This is up ~2.7 Bcf/d from where they started the year. As a result, overall Northeast production flows on the same day also posted a milestone, with volumes approaching a record 25.3 Bcf/d. Marcellus/Utica natural gas production volumes this past Saturday (November 4) set a record high of more than 23 Bcf/d, according to pipeline flow data.
