Day 33 Monday: 1-month Post-Op Visit

Morning: The visit to Reconstructive/Plastics today went great!

• Surgical glue has fallen all off, so I get to begin healing ointment treatment twice a day now.

• Still some swelling on left/cancer side.

• Got 1-month post-op pics taken.

Doc answered questions we had about the process + recovery if we choose to do replacement, fat grafting, and/or tattooing.

We have appreciated all the knowledge given during this diagnosis, and knowing they will perform as many surgeries a cancer patient is willing to have in order to look typical, therefore feel happy + satisfied, is beyond awe-inspiring!

Now, for me, while these two puppies/boobs are not identical, at this time I am truly overjoyed with:

• having almost all my energy back

• feeling human, again

• feeling more like a woman than I anticipated

• how the boobs actually did turn out (there are some scary outcome pics on the web.)

And honestly...what's another scar? It's something I'm proud + honored to show, much like the stretch marks from my 3 babies.

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Evening: Something really weird + scary happened. I bent down to take my slippers off and shooting pain on the right side (non-cancer) nearly brought me to my knees. I stopped breathing and wondered what in the hell it could be + why?

Thinking back to the day's events, was anything outside of the "norm"? No.

Did the Dr. or his associate overly handle me? God, no.

The pain limited me from doing anything without feeling it. So when I felt the pain, I dug my fingers in as hard as I could to what? Examine it? Fight back? I don't know other than I was scared.

So I laid down (at 7:30ish) in bed and stayed there praying until morning when it wasn't there anymore.

If I were to guess, a nerve probably got touched somehow by the implant while I bent over? 🤷‍♀️ And you know what? I don't need to know, as long as it never happens, again. 😉

For me, to mention it here is a way to remember a quirky moment.

Since then, all is well!