Surgery Complete... Recovery in progress.....

I got home from surgery yesterday and as far as I can tell, everything went really well.  With my pain meds (liquid Vicodin) I am tolerating the pain good.  I was taking 2 tsp, but the hospital called this morning and recommended I cut back to 1 tsp since I am doing so well handling it.  Sleeping seemed easy enough.  I can only lay comfortably flat on my back, but that is what I expected.  I tried on my side, but that was not happening.  Even though I am wearing a very snug bra that they gave me, and that I have to wear for like 2-3 weeks straight, I could still feel my breast try to move sideways with me and it just didn’t feel good.  So I went right back to laying on my back.  

Speaking of pain… it’s a very different type of feeling that I am having with this surgery than my previous ones.  It’s hard to explain what it is like… but because my surgeon attached the inner part of my left breast to my top rib bone… I am feeling this strange pressure and odd pain on my rib bones… and it’s just so new to me it’s kind of confusing… makes me unsure of what I can and can’t do physically.  Normally I would think I could lean forward a bit, but I am noticing that right now that bending movement causes a slight pain right on my rib.  I need to be very careful obviously.  

I have not really seen how my breast looks yet.  I can’t even shower until tomorrow, so at this point all I have done is take a peek inside this bra and see the sides.  I can tell that it is VERY tucked in.  Which was the whole point.  He was going to take the area that was sticking out funny, where the implant was basically protruding out and causing a strange extra lump, and tuck that in, so it looked like the other breast.  The part that got tucked in was what he attached to the rib bone.  Right now though it is VERY tucked in… way more than the right breast, but that is normal.  Everything is swollen, and tight, and my surgeon said it will take 6-9 months for everything along the scar to actually settle and smooth out.  The swelling will take a long time to go away as well.  Basically, this means ay swimsuits I wear this coming summer will be tankini’s… no bikini tops. LOL!!  

So…. 3 weeks no driving, maybe longer.  A good 6 months of lifting no more than a ½ gallon of milk, then after that just 1 gallon.  And basically being very careful in general so that way nothing messes this up.  I need this to work.  NO MORE SURGERIES!!  I am so done being a pin cushion.  :)  I will update again after my post op appt next Wednesday.   Hopefully I get told everything is looking great.   P.S. The picture below is me yesterday, and you can see how crazy big this bra I have to wear is... lol.