Newest Surgery

Had my surgery yesterday.  (Happy Thanksgiving btw!)  I don’t know why but I was actually borderline scared while waiting to be rolled into surgery.  For the last 3 I had no problem...I was excited and anxious in a good way.  But this time I was nervous and couldn’t really figure out the why of it.  I had my Dad and Mom pray with me to help me feel better which of course it did some.   When Dr.Dinick finally came to see if I was ready I felt even better.  He is always so sure of himself and that makes me feel more secure about the whole process.  

I really don’t remember anything after they started rolling me into the surgery room.  Actually, I don’t even remember the surgery room.  I must have passed out from the sleepy stuff really fast because next thing I knew I was awake and in pain.  Only half of my right breast was cut open this time.   It looks like he fixed all the problems but of course everything is pinched together and tight so it still doesn’t look the same as the left one yet.  Once it heals and relaxes some it will though and I feel confident that this should be it.  (Or at least I pray that this is it!)

I can move around ok for awhile and then I get really sore.  I am not taking any pain meds because I really don’t like how zonked out the heavy drugs make me feel...so I am just toughing it out...which isn’t that bad at all.  It hurts, but I have certainly had worse.  

I have 10 more days of no work still which makes me really happy.  I think that should be plenty of time to heal up.  I won’t be able to lift more than 10 pounds for about 4 weeks so I have a doctors note that I will take back to work with me to give to my boss.  Make sure everything is in order of course so they can’t say no to anything.  Here is hoping that I heal up quickly though...and that I am back to normal working order.  :)

FINALLY!!!

Finally received a phone call from my surgeons office.  They were able to squeeze me in for surgery!!  YAY!!  I am so excited.  Unfortunately they could only squeeze me in the day before Thanksgiving.  :(  But of a bummer I know, will make cooking the next day very hard.  BUT, on the plus side my mother in-law will be here visiting and she can help a lot with the cooking and James will be here to help take care of me.  So it won’t be all bad.  And really this is supposed to be a small 2 hour procedure, I really shouldn't be that bad off.  Unless of course right in the middle if surgery my doc decides that he thinks more needs to be done, in which case I could be worse off.  I only say this because that is what happened last time and I was more sore than expected.  

I am very anxious to have this procedure done….the awkwardness and sometimes soreness that my right breast has been experiencing is getting progressively worse.  I can’t lay on my left side because when I do that implant moves to a very uncomfortable position and actually hurts.  When I raise my arms up that breast just looks visibly wrong, the whole breast is a different shape than the other one because of how that implant is sitting and to top it all off, and really what is the most visually annoying thing, all of this makes my nipple face the wrong way.  It goes to the side, and not forward like the other one.  SO...as you can imagine this will be a very welcomed fix.  lol

I will write another update as soon as I have the surgery and let you all know how it goes.  Wish I was able to post a pic but of course that would be a little x-rated and not appropriate.  ;)