40 Year Old; 38G- to a C/D Goodbye Big boobs! Billings, MT

I am a little slow in posting but hopefully over the next couple of days I can get myself current lol. As with most of you, I have been large breasted for most of my life. I was probably a D or DD by the time I went to college. I stayed this size regardless of weight loss and high activity. In my mid twenties I got pregnant with my exhusband with twins. Unfortunately I suffered a miscarriage at 12 weeks. By that time I had went up to a 34H already. Even after the miscarriage my boob size did not go down. My weight has fluctuated over the years but the boobs never go down very much. Breast reduction has been something I have talked about doing doing for almost 20 years. For almost three years now I work 12+hour days in a hospital so I am on my feet almost the whole time. I have found that I was having more back and neck pain and numbness in my back after my shifts and my migraines have gotten increasingly worse. Plus the girls would get in the way when I would try to move patients. So it was time to get the girls taken down some. I went for my consult in Dec and was preapproved through my insurance for the surgery. So surgery was done Feb 8. Surgery took about 45 minutes longer than expected and my right nipple was detached longer than the doc had wanted so I had to use nitro paste on that nipple for 5 days to help with the blood flow. I husband has been great with helping make sure I'm not doing more than I'm suppose to. I will post more tomorrow about how the rest of the recovery has been going as well as the pictures of the progress.

So I am 4 weeks out from surgery at this point but I should probably give how things have went since surgery.
Week one was pretty much a blur. Lots of sleeping, doing nothing but coloring and watching tv, and keeping up on pain medications. I was pretty damn sore especially on the right side where more work was done. Oddly though my left breast looked awful. So bruised. But healing was going normal and well.
Week 2- around day ten I noticed that I was having some foul smelling pus coming out of incision spots one my right nipple. It was the weekend and at night but my doctor called me back right away and called in antibiotic for me. Hate Bactim btw. Ugh. At my 2week appointment (day 17) was told that I was still on 5 pound weight limit with very limited activity still, but infection looked to be clearing nicely. Only bad thing, was now I had some open wounds along the incision lines. ???? Turns out after lots of reading this is actually pretty common with reduction. At this point I was still having to sleep in recliner or inclined in the bed and still pretty damn sore. The infection definitely set me back.
Week 3- getting stir crazy is an understatement at this point. Husband has helped a lot but I am so tired of not being able to do anything. I was told that I am allowed to get on the treadmill this week but at a very slow pace and for short periods. Infection cleared so now the opened wounds are easy to see how big they really were. Doctor has had me using xeroform on them since my appointment. I stated really noticing some of the sutures starting to come through especially in the open wounds.
Week 4- ok now to where I am now. After this long post hopefully the ones to follow will be much easier to follow. One of the 4 open wounds has closed up. Husband really got onto me this week saying I was trying to do to much annoy allowing myself to rest enough. I am so frustrated with sitting. I can't even play with my pups good right now and the weigh to much for them to get up on me to cuddle with me like they did before surgery. I have tried to make sure that I am drinking all the water I am suppose to and I have upped my protein intake to try and help with the healing process. I know it just takes time. I guess I will see tomorrow how my doctor feels things are going. Right now I'm just in more of a bleh kind of way. I know it will get better.

So for the past few days I have really felt run down so I have just tried to really take it easy. I had been trying to watch my calorie intake this past week and I think I had just cut back to much. Trying to take it easy is hard to do knowing that there is housework that needs to be done. My husband has been really fatigued (he has MS) himself so it has been tough. I've been getting more of the nerve twinges yesterday and today. I have my 4 week appointment tomorrow and I'm hoping it goes well. I just hope I get a little more clearance on amount of activity and hopefully he will allow me to start massage on my breasts. They are still hard in several areas and I still have lots of soreness on the right side. I am just feeling really down right now. Just the post reduction blues when healing doesn't go exactly as we hope right? I just wonder how I have read so many reviews that it seems people are basically back to normal in a couple of weeks. I don't even know how that is possible. Maybe I am just a super slow healer :(