WOW I have neglected my Blog :(
So, it's now 6 weeks since the big 'M' and I've been through some truly up and down days.
I know when all this is finished and I am completely healed I will think it has all been worth it, but presently I still have more days where I wish I hadn't done it, than had.
The really strong pain finished within probably the first month, and it has been more like really annoying discomfort 90% of the time. Sleeping is still only with the aide of sleeping tablets, it's just almost impossible to get comfortable. I have been a side sleeper since having children and now I have to sleep on my back in a reclined position because it is just too uncomfortable to sleep flat on my back. As it is, I still wake up feeling like an elephant is sitting on my chest.
Aparently I am one of these people whose body likes to create adhesions when it gets cut. I have them from the hysterectomy and I have them now. So when I sit for a while, or lay, everything sticks to the muscle expanders and then has to let go again when I move. So I often feel like little teeth are grabbing onto my ribs, like hooks, and I try to unhook them lol Strange, but just the way they go.
But, here we are at 6 weeks and everything is going beautifully according to the plastic surgeon, and he's the one that knows so I'm putting my trust in him. The tape came off today, on the cuts, and the scars are so thin!! Now that I am very happy with :) Although they are very long cuts they will fade with time
the bags of fatty skin to the sides will all be cut away with the final operation. Some will be used to create nipples and the rest will just go.
This picture is after my third expansion. It's not a very good angle, from the top they look much better lol but at least there is a little bit of cleavage happening now.
So, in a nutshell, it's been a hell of an emotional trip thus far but all is healing as it is supposed to be and I now have the same risk of breast cancer as a normal person with normal genes :) something like less than 4%............gotta be happy with that :)
I know when all this is finished and I am completely healed I will think it has all been worth it, but presently I still have more days where I wish I hadn't done it, than had.
The really strong pain finished within probably the first month, and it has been more like really annoying discomfort 90% of the time. Sleeping is still only with the aide of sleeping tablets, it's just almost impossible to get comfortable. I have been a side sleeper since having children and now I have to sleep on my back in a reclined position because it is just too uncomfortable to sleep flat on my back. As it is, I still wake up feeling like an elephant is sitting on my chest.
Aparently I am one of these people whose body likes to create adhesions when it gets cut. I have them from the hysterectomy and I have them now. So when I sit for a while, or lay, everything sticks to the muscle expanders and then has to let go again when I move. So I often feel like little teeth are grabbing onto my ribs, like hooks, and I try to unhook them lol Strange, but just the way they go.
But, here we are at 6 weeks and everything is going beautifully according to the plastic surgeon, and he's the one that knows so I'm putting my trust in him. The tape came off today, on the cuts, and the scars are so thin!! Now that I am very happy with :) Although they are very long cuts they will fade with time
the bags of fatty skin to the sides will all be cut away with the final operation. Some will be used to create nipples and the rest will just go.
This picture is after my third expansion. It's not a very good angle, from the top they look much better lol but at least there is a little bit of cleavage happening now.
So, in a nutshell, it's been a hell of an emotional trip thus far but all is healing as it is supposed to be and I now have the same risk of breast cancer as a normal person with normal genes :) something like less than 4%............gotta be happy with that :)
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