"He'll tell you everything he's going to do, step-by-step, so there won't be any surprises," the nurse was telling me. She was taking my blood pressure with one of those thingys that go on your wrist and you hold up to your chest. She was holding my arm the whole time. I asked if she could tell I was nervous. "Yes, your hands are shaking." I told her it could also be the large Diet Doctor Pepper I had just chugged on my way in. See in Polly-philosophy a delicious Diet Doctor Pepper makes everything better. This was my first tissue expander "fill" at the plastic surgeon's office. The reality was, I was scared to death. See, as much reading as I had done on tissue expanders and how they work, I never got to the part about how it was going to feel, for me. I understood the mechanics of it, but not the experience. She was right, Dr. S did say everything out loud before he did it. I was lying on the table with the doctor on my right -- t...