Tatas for Schatzy, 32AA to C? - Salt Lake City, UT

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that I had my right nipple tweaked a little bit. Hence, the stitches.

Thank you all for being so supportive and kind in response to my last update. You gals really picked me up when I was feeling bluuuuuuuuuuuuuue. It's really awesome how inspiring this community is. Your positivity really helped me to turn my head around :)

Physically, I am feeling better too. Still lots of little shooting pains and overall extreme tightness, but less today than yesterday. The morning boob(and let's be real, after-nap boob) still gets me everytime- yowza! But it is tolerable with some stretches, smiles, etc. I am really looking forward to removing the big white surgical tape you see. I think I get to do that tomorrow. I am kind of nervous about it since it seems stuck like extra-strength bandaids, but I'm anxious to see just my skin when I look down and in the mirror. The tape feels like it is stretching my skin even further. Any advice for how to remove it with less pain? I'll ask my ps too, but maybe with a little bit of bio oil?

That's all for now, and thanks again everyone for inspiring confidence in me :) You are all lovely and amazing. XO

Hi Gals,

So I have not been feeling up to updating or much of anything these past few days. I had my surgery on the 2nd of July, so about 5 days ago now. Things have not been horrible, but they haven't been hearts and rainbows either. My surgery went well, and that night went pretty smooth. The pain meds helped me sleep the night away so that I was more than ready for my follow-up the next morning. At my follow-up appointment, they determined that due to my uneven swelling it looked like I had a hematoma a brewin' so they sent me back to the surgical center where I went under for a second time. I can imagine this was only for a short while and I was out before I knew it. So i understand that happens sometimes but it made me really discouraged. I felt like I was already back a day and then any little thing that didn't look or feel right on my body made me think it was reason to have to go under the knife again. I guess I have a hard time wrapping my little artist's brain around how they can fix the hematoma problem in one surgery and it won't come back. What did I do in the first place to make it happen? I am still in a lot of pain. I am having hot shooting/burning pains like whoa near my incisions, and of course I am still very stiff overall. I keep waking up hoping I will feel better, but it's just the same. I am almost out of my pain meds and they can't prescribe me more because I am out of state. Once I am out, I will be allowed to take ibuprofen so hopefully that will help my pain and not screw up my bleeding/healing process.

My boobs look terribly lopsided. I got 375 in the right and 350 in the left and it looks like they swapped that around in surgery. I KNOW I'M SURE THEY DIDN'T, but that's what it looks like. I know it's probably just swelling and whatnot that makes it look that way. That and my body is naturally uneven ( my left ribcage protrudes further than my right ribcage). But it is just discouraging. I was going to post some pictures, but they just got me too down. So maybe next post.

I am following my plastic surgeon's instructions to a T, wearing my surgical bra 24/7, wearing the support strap 24/7. Doing my chicken arms stretches on the hour., taking short little walks.

I really hate to be a downer, it is so not like me. I have total faith in my ps and his staff so I don't want to make it sound like I am upset with them because I'm not. I know it's just my body. I know it has only been 5 days, so I have a lot of changes ahead of me, but I thought I would share the truth instead of trying to sugarcoat my current experience. ouch. time to grab a fresh ice pack.

XO