Consultation today.

I’ve been debating breast augmentation for quite a few years, especially after breastfeeding three kids but even before that. They have never been perky. They have never been even close to even.

It’s like they just appeared huge overnight in the fifth grade and they always sagged and drooped, they just progressively lost more and more upper pole. I had never even looked at them from the side profile before taking pictures to show the potential surgeons and after that, the embarrassment that I already felt from saggy pancake boobs just grew worse.

I’ve been dragging my feet about actually making a consult. The after procedure scared me, my imagination runs wild with pain and usually, the fact my imagination goes worst case actually helps when it’s not as bad as expected.

I researched and researched and researched the last month, carefully choosing plastic surgeons to put on my list of possibles. I only ended up actually making one consult with the plan to just get a feel of price, size and a better idea of what the recovery looked like.

But my consultation went fantastic! The scheduler that I spoke with, Jennifer, was great. She was great on the phone initially, very personal and explained things very well. She even had to explain what the “line” was. I had never had areola’s that came above the crease. That was new to me. I originally was scared because she said we could do the procedure in April. I was a bit shell shocked, for some reason I thought there would be a lot of waiting. There wasn’t. I decided to forgo making the actual procedure until the consultation and shopping around for prices in the meantime. I looked at a lot of different surgeons and pricing in that time span and the price quoted on the phone by Jennifer was the best price I had found. I was still nervous, dragging my feet and still believe I was going to go through with it.

Today was my consultation with Dr. Magge and he was exactly what I needed to build the confidence that I could do this. He explained everything very well in simple terms, had a great personal demeanor and I found him hilarious which put me at ease.

Jennifer is who was in the room with us initially to go over general details and she was again, fantastic. Easily explaining everything and even making drawings. She had me feel a saline implant and didn’t tell me what it was and it was awful.

I ended up getting told what I wanted; that I never even told them is what matched my body so yay! Mentor MemoryGel High Profile.

The consultation was so good and it felt right that we went ahead and booked for May 1!

Wednesday is the big day! I’ve been gathering post op supplies for a couple weeks now! I’m hoping I haven’t forgotten anything on my lists. I have Amazon orders coming in tomorrow, last minute!

It’s a serious time crunch to book 3 weeks after consult and it’s been a rough road to getting all the pre-op done in 3 weeks. My PCP couldn’t squeeze me in to get a physical so I tried 4 different urgent cares to get a physical, for a couple run arounds and an EKG. Thankfully, my office was super accommodating and understood! Our bank delayed loan funds so I didn’t have the payment in time for cut off but I stayed in contact and my payment finally went through. Super understanding!

I’m really starting to get nervous about after surgery though. I’ll be 100% fine until I wake up. I’m not only worried about pain, and extra incisions from a lift... I’m worried about my husband caring for our 4 kids and doing the routines without me. Tomorrow is the last day for me to prepare. Ahhhhh I’m so happy I’ll finally be getting it over with though !

My chest cavity hurts, hurts is an understatement, compared to yesterday like I did over a million push ups on chest day.

Yesterday was kind of a nightmare. We were over an hour late to my surgery. Everyone was fantastic like they have been the last 3 weeks with all of my obstacles. I didn’t factor in city traffic so 1 hour 24 minutes ended up taking over 2 hours. The office wasn’t open so I couldn’t just call.

We got there and did preop, Dr Magge ended up going 375cc/475cc instead of 350cc/450cc, HP Mentor MemoryGel unders with a full anchor lift.

I can’t really feel my incisions but I know there’s a lot of them. It’s literally just my chest cavity that’s hurting. I also have T-Rex arms hah.

I slept most of the day yesterday until 8am this morning. I’m more awake today. That’s good. I have more to say but I’ll keep updating later.