Breast Reduction from 36J - Spokane, WA

Hello dear friends, good time of day/night to you all. I am feeling better with each passing day, although tonight I was experiencing some cutting pain along my horizontal incision and ending with the drain hole. Nothing unexpected but nasty. I'm off pain meds of any kind, even IBU, although I'm keeping up on my homeopathic supplements, they are contributing to my speedy recovery and excellent scarring. I use a colloidal silver spray on my incisions a few times throughout the day and emu oil as a moisturizer/healing massage oil. I used Bio Oil with my last pregnancy and hated the smell, and if I hate the smell, I will not use it. Stubborn little lady that I am. Uploading a couple pic-ies for you, notice the crepe -like skin ruffling in the middle of my cleavage. I do hope that will fade and smooth out with time. It looks disturbing as it is now. My nipples are not symmetrical or even round, which saddens me tremendously, but this, too, might pass, as my sweet new boobies are not done changing. My skin gets irritated easily, as you can see some bumpy redness where the steri strips used to be, I took the pics after a shower, during which I removed the strips, so pardon the irritated skin. Per my PS's suggestion I am going braless (or attempting to) for the night, we'll see what's going on inside my cotton nightie in the morning. Letting the emu oil work it's wonders, it has naturally occurring vitamin E and is often used by chemo patients to restore veins and injection sites in between treatments. It is completely odorless but my cat senses something and keeps trying to lick any exposed skin so I make a beeline out of the shower into the master bedroom, or else he keeps licking my legs and goes crazy, trying to "hunt" my legs. This phenomenon does not occur when I do not apply emu oil, I find it hilarious. Emu are like giant ostriches, brave though he is, Zen wouldn't stand a chance against one of those massive birds. haha. I will not lie, I am rather disappointed with my nipples from where I can see, I hope they even out eventually. :-/ but, I am very happy with the emerging shape, PS said that she purposely leaves the top very full so that when they drop, I will have upper pole firmness and perfect nipple positioning and I am glad we removed the sideboob tissue. All in all, nothing horrible to report, just very sleepy these days. Hope you are all fairing better than I. Much love.

This sleeping on my back business is quite uncomfortable and getting old. I put pillows on the sides so I can move a little more in each direction without pain but I have so many sore muscles in my back that i am losing sleep and being very cranky all day.

Saw my PS today, she snipped the stitches and removed drains, those suckers were very long, and the holes were plugged up with a bloody svabby mucous. Most disgraceful feeling ever. I brought a bouquet if gorgeous flowers for the doc, she was very pleased and,surprised. Reiterated that no bra is fine, instructed me to remove steri strips in shower, and told me she will throw in lipo for free if i decide to proceed with tummy tuck. I'm going in for a consult on the 26th. Oh, and she also mentioned that I'm healing very quickly and agreed it's most likely from the homeopathic supplements and kombucha. With the drains out i can comfortably move my arms and twist my torso, feeling very thankful. Went out to dinner with the kids and husband, ate some delicious salmon and steelhead with oysters, now home exhausted and ready to crash. Good night