It’s exactly 14 days until my breast reduction surgery, and I couldn’t be more enthusiastic.
I have been documenting my thoughts leading up to this surgery. I want to assure everyone that I am being operated on in a private clinic and far outside the reach of presently, death-trap hospitals.
My surgery is expected to last approximately 4 hours, start to finish.
I had my pre-op appointment last Wednesday, and it was far less informative than I was expecting. I’ve seen videos where they show you how to do everything after surgery. That’s I guess what I expected in my appointment. I was basically given a lanyard to shower with which I was instructed to clip my drains to in the shower. I was told I could take a bath from the waste up, but I shouldn’t fully submerge my surgical incision sites for 6 weeks. That will be rough.
I have watched countless videos on sleeping after surgery, and I purchased an incline pillow and several smaller travel pillows for under my arms for 6 weeks of sleeping propped up and on my back. I am a hard core side and stomach sleeper so this will be better for my neck overall. However, it’s a tough adjustment. I expected to get a rundown on this at the appointment, but it wasn’t even mentioned.
I got my prescriptions written for everything I need for pain in recovery. As I am not a big drug user, most will be saved for the impending apocalypse and traded or sold for things like meat, green vegetables, ammo and copious amounts of toilet paper when everything goes all Mad Max in the next year. Always fill all your prescriptions, kiddos, even those you know you’ll never use. Don’t return unused or expired prescriptions to the lock box in the pharmacy for nothing, whatever you do.
I was instructed to walk frequently. I wasn’t expecting to be comfortable enough to do that after surgery. They want me sleeping as much as possible as well as taking leisurely walks around my neighborhood. Those things kind of contradict each other. I’m sure I’ll work it out when the time comes.
I am still nervous about being under anesthesia for over 3 hours. That’s a long time. I am nervous about the pain after. I am also noticing more and more my limitations I currently contend with, the back pain I experience after cooking dinner, sometimes crippling before I can finish. I wonder how I have let myself be in so much pain for so many years that I have to yell for my husband to help finish cooking dinner so I can lay on an ice pack for the rest of the night. I hurt myself REALLY BAD every time I spend more than 25 minutes preparing a meal, folding laundry or doing dishes.
I have continued cleaning out my closets and drawers as I do every Autumn. I get all the boys’ stuff moved around. Kimbel’s hand-me-downs go in Junah’s drawers and Junah’s stuff gets moved to donation boxes. Their shorts are put in the lesser used drawers while their jeans and joggers go in the front. Their tee shirts go up in the top out of reach shelves of the closet while long sleeve tees, sweat shirts, sweaters and vests get pulled down to the lower racks. I’m sorting laundry, folding, filling up bins for donation and rearranging everything for winter. As an added bonus this year, I got to donate an entire dresser drawer which I needed for holding massive JJ cup bras to my husband for his socks and underwear. I realized that having smaller boobs equals having smaller bras, and I couldn’t possibly need a giant drawer to hold tiny normal sized bras that regular mortals use. My future bras will easily fit into my sock drawer like normal people.
I have also started window shopping for future bras. Although I won’t be able to use any wire bras for 6 weeks, I now have an entire world of muggle boob sized bras opening up to me. They are GORGEOUS! I can’t wait to put the curves in some really pretty and sexy slings. With my current situation, I have been accustomed to a small selection of what looks like surgical back braces rarely made out of satin or with lace over the top of them. There’s not much lipstick one can put on these pigs.
The other thing I have been shopping for are tee shirts. Tee shirts are not a good look on mythical sized melons. Now that I will be more petite up top, I can start wearing fun tee shirts like the ones I have for sale on my website! I made a new DARE-ing design just this week! Check it out here!
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