Already Feeling Better from my Extreme Reduction

Like most of us I started growing breasts in puberty and mine never stopped like the other girls. I was thin all my teen years. When I was married I had to order a dress size larger to accommodate my breasts and then have it altered back down to my body size.
I was around 17 or 18 when they first told me I needed a breast reduction. They told me that my chances of breast-feeding were low due to the size of reduction I needed. I decided to wait until after all my children were born. After that I ended up getting sick with an auto-immune disease and my window closed for several years while they worked to put it into remission.
Finally at 47 I had my surgery last week! I had the best surgeon and staff. They helped calm all my fears and worries. I spent the night in the hospital due to my heath issues.
On day 2 I freaked out a little bit, I'd seen hundreds of pictures on this website by this point but they looked so small and weird. They are already looking better on day 6 post op. I have both the before pictures I took in the hospital bathroom right before surgery and then a couple of updated pictures. I will continue to update their progress.
I already am breathing better, my posture is better, and I've had zero neck pain since the surgery. One nipple has feeling already, the other side is number but I'm hopeful. Even if it doesn't, I'm very happy to have the one, I'm very lucky I had such a skilled surgeon to do my extreme reduction.
My size was a 36N and while I haven't been measured yet they think I will be a 36DDD or maybe larger but they are so much smaller then what I was carrying around. He took out a little over 2lbs on each side.
I'm excited to get them and myself healed so I can go back to exercising without all the extra boob weight!

Much easier recovery than I had feared. It's 12 dpo and the surgery pain is almost gone, I no longer take anything for pain. I'm not lifting anything and I can still hurt them on accident, so I'm careful, but all in all an easy recovery.

After some rough patches in the very beginning, I am absolutely in love with my new breasts! I can’t stop looking at them. I show them to anyone that shows interest. Including strangers in bathrooms lol.

My nipples look amazing!

It’s been exactly 4 weeks since my surgery. I’m going in next week for a check up. I’m hoping I can talk to them about scheduling a tummy tuck for early spring.