Today was my final expansion, just over 700cc in total now inside the pockets, aparently this is the largest volume possible lol
I tried to vacuum today! Not a good idea! Not on carpet anyway. I have been able to use the little stick vacuum on the parcquetry flooring, but today I tried carpet with my Dyson, it's a strange thing to feel things moving around beneath your skin, I will say that.
I am uncomfortable tonight and have been most of the night so I'm looking forward to taking some pain killers and just going to sleep.
It's getting quite cool at night now so I just had a lovely hot shower and did my exercises and I can almost get my arms right up now. The muscles under my arms, that go down through my armpits, are still pulling quite a lot so it still feels really strange and difficult, but it's much more than when we first started on this journey.
I still have my moments of doubts about how I look, as any woman would, but my dear husband always reassures me and tells me I am perfect to him, he's so good to me. He has done everything he can do to make life easy for me and takes all the time he can off work to help around the house with the kids and taking me back and forth for all the medical visits, I'd be so lost without him. The novelty has certainly worn off for the kids haha but I think that's to be expected at their ages. They have been wonderful though and have made me so proud in the ways they have found to help out.
In this last week we have celebrated our beautiful boy turning 13!,
Mothers' Day and the 18th Anniversary of our marriage. These are all things we take for granted until we are forced to face our own mortality. I know I didn't have cancer this time, but to be threatened with the certainty of it really makes you think about how you want to spend your life.
All the tape residue has pretty much come off now and I can now see the lovely thin pinky/red scar line, it really is so thin that I'm hoping with proper care and lots of vitamin E cream it will fade really well over time. I will upload another photo when I get a chance. I still have a lot of trimming and shaping to have done in the final operation.
I now have to go and see my original breast specialist for a follow up review, hoping to do that next week, and in July I go in for my review with the plastic surgeon and we start to discuss the final operation and replacement of the expanders with proper breast implants :)
For now though, it's just a matter of letting the expanders sit and rest and allow the scar tissue to heal more before we can do anything else.
So, now I just wait and get stronger and happier. John bought a wonderful electric walker so I think I may even have to start getting onto that and start burning some of this excess weight off so that after my final operation it will be like an entirely new me :)
They say, a change is a good as a holiday :)
I tried to vacuum today! Not a good idea! Not on carpet anyway. I have been able to use the little stick vacuum on the parcquetry flooring, but today I tried carpet with my Dyson, it's a strange thing to feel things moving around beneath your skin, I will say that.
I am uncomfortable tonight and have been most of the night so I'm looking forward to taking some pain killers and just going to sleep.
It's getting quite cool at night now so I just had a lovely hot shower and did my exercises and I can almost get my arms right up now. The muscles under my arms, that go down through my armpits, are still pulling quite a lot so it still feels really strange and difficult, but it's much more than when we first started on this journey.
I still have my moments of doubts about how I look, as any woman would, but my dear husband always reassures me and tells me I am perfect to him, he's so good to me. He has done everything he can do to make life easy for me and takes all the time he can off work to help around the house with the kids and taking me back and forth for all the medical visits, I'd be so lost without him. The novelty has certainly worn off for the kids haha but I think that's to be expected at their ages. They have been wonderful though and have made me so proud in the ways they have found to help out.
In this last week we have celebrated our beautiful boy turning 13!,
All the tape residue has pretty much come off now and I can now see the lovely thin pinky/red scar line, it really is so thin that I'm hoping with proper care and lots of vitamin E cream it will fade really well over time. I will upload another photo when I get a chance. I still have a lot of trimming and shaping to have done in the final operation.
I now have to go and see my original breast specialist for a follow up review, hoping to do that next week, and in July I go in for my review with the plastic surgeon and we start to discuss the final operation and replacement of the expanders with proper breast implants :)
For now though, it's just a matter of letting the expanders sit and rest and allow the scar tissue to heal more before we can do anything else.
So, now I just wait and get stronger and happier. John bought a wonderful electric walker so I think I may even have to start getting onto that and start burning some of this excess weight off so that after my final operation it will be like an entirely new me :)
They say, a change is a good as a holiday :)
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