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Not a good day
But then I look at myself in the mirror with no bra on and can't help but still feel like a freak. I feel like I now have the opposite problem where my right breast seems smaller than my left. When I have clothes and a lightly padded bra you can't tell, but I know it's there and today it was upsetting me big time.
I know it has only been a month and I need to be patient, but there is this part of me that's scared the right breast will not settle into place to align with the left. It doesn't have to be perfect, but right now I just feel like I spent all this money to have a different problem.
I'm trying to trust what my PS says (that it will settle into place—that my breasts will change over the next several months), but it's just difficult right now to believe what he's saying. Thoughts of "what if this doesn't actually settle?" and "you'll have to go through a revision surgery" makes me sick to my stomach.
I know that there are people worse off than me so I'm trying very hard not to dwell on it.
I just need to be patient.
Patiently Waiting
I guess I thought when I woke up from surgery that my dream of having even breasts (I know not perfect) would have happened, but instead I woke to this and it's just been difficult at times to look at myself in the mirror. I used to feel so insecure because my one breast was much bigger than the other and now it's kind of the opposite.
I see my doctor again this week and I'm anxious to see what he thinks so far. I think my scars looks okay. I'm concerned a little about the scarring under my right breast, but that too will take time to heal properly. I'm pleased that I've had that minimal electric shock feeling around my nipples. I've read that means the nerves are waking up. I'm getting a little sensation around the left, but nothing really on the right.
I've been walking every day and even took the tiniest jog (I'm talking about a few minutes or a couple of blocks) and felt really good. I feel so much more confident in public and with the way my clothes fit. I'm anxious for the doctor to tell me I can start to wear regular (no underwire) bras. I'm just waiting for that right breast to kind of line up with the left and then I will really feel good. I have to trust what the doctor has told me and just be patient.
Photos (Before and After...So far)
Provider Review
I have been very pleased so far with Dr. Stratis and the entire staff at Stratis and Gaynor. He has answered all my questions going into the surgery and the staff has been warm and have also answered questioned I've had. The Surgery Center staff are wonderful, funny, and just overall awesome people. I didn't feel rushed or had to question anything after leaving post-op. Dr. Stratis gave me his number to call for any questions I have after hours as well. My only complaint, and it's minor, is I felt a little rushed at my first follow-up, but to their credit, they brought me in a day earlier than scheduled because I was having a reaction to the plastic wrap. I was very grateful he came in to see me even when I wasn't on his schedule.