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I'm probably the chosen one in a million!
I'm feeling grateful that I arranged an appointment at my usual clinic for tomorrow when I spoke with Carole from there last Thurs. I was in Derby on holiday wondering if I needed to go into the walk in clinic as I wasn't sure, if it was an infection, that it wouldn't kick off big time when i was traveling and before I could get home to my usual team of nurses. Carole took a 5 min synopsis over the phone and advised that it was probably best if I got it checked out... See last post...!
The trauma that has unraveled since then, what with the 'travelling boob outburst', is now under control and my panic has subsided with logic. I don't blame myself for a little trauma, a little drama, a little panic. After all, it's not everyday you go to bed with a medium flow sanitary towel on your tit! It's also not many people who can say 'my boob burst on the M2 motorway... while i was driving'.
I didn't really think much about it before now... I'm neither a chemist or biologist... But the gunk that my boob ejected with the serum fluid, seemed quite acidic/burny. It seemed to me that the fluid burst out the dressing in a forceful way, quite different from the 100% waterproof protection the dressing had afforded me, stopping the 40° hot tub water from getting in! The adhesive was strong, was it burnt through?
It felt like the fluid, after the initial outburst, then slowly leaked out, burning a new hole in my skin. Overnight this oozed into the sanitary towel which with its super absorbent capacity, along with the Aquacel which is great for drawing out bad properties, kept the fluid away from my skin.
Does the body hold such burny fluid in itself?
Or I wonder if the hot tub water would have had an element of the hot tub cleaning fluid in it which the inside of my breast didn't like... And so it shouldn't! I wonder if some of the hot tub water got trapped in a type of blister effect which swelled and finally burst as the body needed to get rid of it?
When I redressed it this morning I made the mistake of putting a spot dressing on. At about 4pm I had burns on my skin under my boob from where a small amount of the fluid had leaked out the dressing and onto my bra and this was now directly against my skin. Enflamed and like a burn. I've now redressed again with another sanitary towel and braless as both post surgery bras are in the wash!!!
Whatever did actually happen, the effect is, I'm set back in my recovery again.
But I'm well and looking forward to getting to my clinic tomorrow for sterile conditions and a professional to take a look.
A friend asked me if all the issues I was having was just unlucky to which I said 'yes'. I'm probably one in a million if not more, and that means, it most certainly won't be happening to any of you out there! Phew!
The trauma that has unraveled since then, what with the 'travelling boob outburst', is now under control and my panic has subsided with logic. I don't blame myself for a little trauma, a little drama, a little panic. After all, it's not everyday you go to bed with a medium flow sanitary towel on your tit! It's also not many people who can say 'my boob burst on the M2 motorway... while i was driving'.
I didn't really think much about it before now... I'm neither a chemist or biologist... But the gunk that my boob ejected with the serum fluid, seemed quite acidic/burny. It seemed to me that the fluid burst out the dressing in a forceful way, quite different from the 100% waterproof protection the dressing had afforded me, stopping the 40° hot tub water from getting in! The adhesive was strong, was it burnt through?
It felt like the fluid, after the initial outburst, then slowly leaked out, burning a new hole in my skin. Overnight this oozed into the sanitary towel which with its super absorbent capacity, along with the Aquacel which is great for drawing out bad properties, kept the fluid away from my skin.
Does the body hold such burny fluid in itself?
Or I wonder if the hot tub water would have had an element of the hot tub cleaning fluid in it which the inside of my breast didn't like... And so it shouldn't! I wonder if some of the hot tub water got trapped in a type of blister effect which swelled and finally burst as the body needed to get rid of it?
When I redressed it this morning I made the mistake of putting a spot dressing on. At about 4pm I had burns on my skin under my boob from where a small amount of the fluid had leaked out the dressing and onto my bra and this was now directly against my skin. Enflamed and like a burn. I've now redressed again with another sanitary towel and braless as both post surgery bras are in the wash!!!
Whatever did actually happen, the effect is, I'm set back in my recovery again.
But I'm well and looking forward to getting to my clinic tomorrow for sterile conditions and a professional to take a look.
A friend asked me if all the issues I was having was just unlucky to which I said 'yes'. I'm probably one in a million if not more, and that means, it most certainly won't be happening to any of you out there! Phew!
Something exploded and it wasn't my patience
As anyone who has followed my story will know, my journey has been hard edged. I've had issue after issue from day 1 of recovery and waking up to a black nipple. I am grateful for all the goodness in my life. I've an amazing surgeon, care team and home life who have all supported me with love and decency all the way.
The holiday was incredible, walking the Dales with my fiancée and the dogs, coming back to soaking in our private hot tub. I decided to try out the 2 different dressings I had from the team.
First dressing, picture 2, was great. I kept it on for 3 days of tubbing (then the tub is dropped and cleaned and scrubbed and refilled) and it was perfectly dry when changed. My surgeon had suggested I then give some air drying time with no dressing on. So I did overnight.
Second dressing, picture 3, leaked and after 2 tubs I decided to check into find the pad was sodden, so went back to the first but also realised I was running out of spot dressings - the small brown plasters from picture 2. My surgeon had told me I could just use a normal spot plaster, so off the a chemist we went.
Third dressing from the pharmacist was fabulous. I did need to explain my particular situation, but wow, what a result! Used these for the rest of the holiday... But... In the meantime....
Water got in.
After the water had got in and after a few days, lefty started feeling tender. I felt like I had a large lump developing and that lefty was swelling. When I realised it wasn't my imagination and it was quite sore, despite airing and re dressing and keeping clean I succumbed to a walk in clinic, far from home, sure to be told it was an infection. But they didn't say that at all. They said it was fine, probably scar tissue moving from having my arms draped over the back of the hot tub, redressed it and sent me home. I said to my fiancée, 'ok so it's not an infection, but why is it so sore then, it feels swollen like it's gonna burst'. The following day, we travelled back 350 miles, and something burst as I was driving down the motorway! I didn't feel a bang, but felt it was wet under my arm and it smelt slightly, not too bad, but not perspiration and anyway, I wasn't sweating.
It was a nervous drive home for the final 40miles. I rang my surgeon immediately. She believed it was a reaction to the water getting in and building up and then the breast needed to reject the serum fluid. So it burst out of the water proof dressings from the pharmacy and made a complete mess, nearly giving us both a heart attack!
As I write this, on a 'taking it easy' day (instructed by my wonderful fiancée) I am about to change the sanitary towel dressing (instructed by my surgeon to catch the oozing over night) to see the size of the damage. I'm pretty sure a third hole was developing above the two in picture 7.
So a slight set back, yet again... But please please please, no infection! I hate antibiotics.
The holiday was incredible, walking the Dales with my fiancée and the dogs, coming back to soaking in our private hot tub. I decided to try out the 2 different dressings I had from the team.
First dressing, picture 2, was great. I kept it on for 3 days of tubbing (then the tub is dropped and cleaned and scrubbed and refilled) and it was perfectly dry when changed. My surgeon had suggested I then give some air drying time with no dressing on. So I did overnight.
Second dressing, picture 3, leaked and after 2 tubs I decided to check into find the pad was sodden, so went back to the first but also realised I was running out of spot dressings - the small brown plasters from picture 2. My surgeon had told me I could just use a normal spot plaster, so off the a chemist we went.
Third dressing from the pharmacist was fabulous. I did need to explain my particular situation, but wow, what a result! Used these for the rest of the holiday... But... In the meantime....
Water got in.
After the water had got in and after a few days, lefty started feeling tender. I felt like I had a large lump developing and that lefty was swelling. When I realised it wasn't my imagination and it was quite sore, despite airing and re dressing and keeping clean I succumbed to a walk in clinic, far from home, sure to be told it was an infection. But they didn't say that at all. They said it was fine, probably scar tissue moving from having my arms draped over the back of the hot tub, redressed it and sent me home. I said to my fiancée, 'ok so it's not an infection, but why is it so sore then, it feels swollen like it's gonna burst'. The following day, we travelled back 350 miles, and something burst as I was driving down the motorway! I didn't feel a bang, but felt it was wet under my arm and it smelt slightly, not too bad, but not perspiration and anyway, I wasn't sweating.
It was a nervous drive home for the final 40miles. I rang my surgeon immediately. She believed it was a reaction to the water getting in and building up and then the breast needed to reject the serum fluid. So it burst out of the water proof dressings from the pharmacy and made a complete mess, nearly giving us both a heart attack!
As I write this, on a 'taking it easy' day (instructed by my wonderful fiancée) I am about to change the sanitary towel dressing (instructed by my surgeon to catch the oozing over night) to see the size of the damage. I'm pretty sure a third hole was developing above the two in picture 7.
So a slight set back, yet again... But please please please, no infection! I hate antibiotics.
To hot tub or not to hot tub
We have been paying for our Christmas holiday retreat all year, very much needing and looking forward to the break.
When I initially had the operation I thought... '5 months after op would be fine for a hot tub' and believed it would be amazing to be in my new birthday suit, free and healed with a new sense of feminity and self-confidence.
Not quite as I'd fantasized!
The whole holiday has been in jeapordy, though we decided to go for it anyway as the dressings may well be up to it - lounging in 40° wood fired round outdoor tub under the stars.... Yes please!
We left home, packed with various dressings from the care team, Hibiscrub antiseptic shower gel and a pin prick of a hole.
Healing is not to be hurried.... But surely any day now....
The problem of course, is infection... From faeces. Extra extra care in showering before and after each tub with the antiseptic gel. And cleanliness around dressing changes plus we have the dogs to navigate and all their germs!
The team have clearly stated that the hole can not be allowed to cover over until the inside has come up from the bottom to meet it. So the Aquacel, over the holiday, was more as a plug to keep the hole open while the inside comes up healing from underneath.
If you look at picture 4, last photo before driving back from holiday, don't be fooled into thinking there is a nipple in the centre of what I have left of an areola - that's actually scar tissue left from the blister before. What is actually left of my nipple is on the right hand side of the areola, directly next to the pin prick hole
When I initially had the operation I thought... '5 months after op would be fine for a hot tub' and believed it would be amazing to be in my new birthday suit, free and healed with a new sense of feminity and self-confidence.
Not quite as I'd fantasized!
The whole holiday has been in jeapordy, though we decided to go for it anyway as the dressings may well be up to it - lounging in 40° wood fired round outdoor tub under the stars.... Yes please!
We left home, packed with various dressings from the care team, Hibiscrub antiseptic shower gel and a pin prick of a hole.
Healing is not to be hurried.... But surely any day now....
The problem of course, is infection... From faeces. Extra extra care in showering before and after each tub with the antiseptic gel. And cleanliness around dressing changes plus we have the dogs to navigate and all their germs!
The team have clearly stated that the hole can not be allowed to cover over until the inside has come up from the bottom to meet it. So the Aquacel, over the holiday, was more as a plug to keep the hole open while the inside comes up healing from underneath.
If you look at picture 4, last photo before driving back from holiday, don't be fooled into thinking there is a nipple in the centre of what I have left of an areola - that's actually scar tissue left from the blister before. What is actually left of my nipple is on the right hand side of the areola, directly next to the pin prick hole
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