23 and Scheduled for July 2016! - Philadelphia, PA

So I am currently about 2.5 weeks post-op and I have some open wounds under my breasts. The skin around them is red so I'm not sure if it's an infection or not. has anyone else experienced something similar?

I had surgery on Thursday (it's now Sunday) and I am only just now able to write this review because I've been so sore that it hurts to type. My worst day so far was definitely the day after surgery because I just felt out of it and sore, but today has also been a bad one. It's so hot out and my bra just feels like it's getting tighter and tighter because of the swelling, as well the hard pieces of gauze that are shoved under my breasts. I'm assuming they are hard because they were wet with blood and fluid, but I haven't been able to get a good look because the nurses at the hospital told me not to remove the bra or play with it until I go for my first check up on Wednesday. I'm just so uncomfortable and I feel huge. For whatever reason, the bra they have me in has lace/frilly details around the edges, which is cutting into me and irritating me. The bra feels so tight around my ribs that I feel like I can barely breathe. The first day I came home from surgery the bra felt very loose, so I can only assume that I'm extremely swollen or full of fluid at this point. Does anyone have any suggestions about what I can do to get the swelling to go down? I still have three more days until I can go to see the doctor and get out of this bra.

So I just received a call from my doctor's office saying that my insurance approved the surgery (it has been 6 days since the doctor sent my information in). I'm relieved that it was just as easy as my doctor said it would be to get the approval, but I'm annoyed that I will have to wait until July 14th for the surgery. That's only two weeks away but I have school in August and wanted to have surgery as soon as possible. They assured me several times that I could get in as soon as this week or next week. I even called yesterday to ask if there were still openings for at least next week and the woman I spoke to kind of had an attitude and acted like it was a ridiculous question to ask if the doctor was booked for any extended period of time. Yet apparently he is.... Oh well, at least I have some time to prepare and try to lose some weight before surgery. One thing I'm also annoyed about in terms of the surgery date is that I will be on my period at that time. This may be a dumb thing to worry about but does anyone know if they allow you to wear underwear and a pad/tampon during surgery? What exactly do you wear in surgery?