Slowly by Surely Shedding the Mommy Body :) - Sioux Falls, SD

As of tomorrow I am officially two weeks post op! My girls are really settling nicely! If you read the prior post of my nipples incisions, well those are slowly but surely healing. The pictures I'll post with this update some may think different but rest assure they are :) I have been emailing my PS pictures of my nipples and keeping him in the loop and he offers his suggestions. I have noticed now that the girls are starting to come down and settle a little bit that the bras I bought since the ones I initially bought for after surgery didn't fit, the ones I have now are stretched out from the weight. I will be doing some bra later this week as I return to work this weekend. I took two weeks off of work with the anticipation that I may need the time, and also because I had the vacation to use. I'm going stir crazy at home! I've been getting my cleaning done and I plan to clean up the yard today! Wish me luck as I am now "top heavy" lol. The only complaint I could say I have at this time is my right ribs next to my breast still feels as if I was kicked by a horse if I touch them or lay in a certain position otherwise I continue to massage and care for my not so pretty nipples as of right now! Any questions, ask away :)

Well...not to scare anyone or detour from decisions, but I would like to update everyone on my progress. On post op day 7 I drove the 200+ miles to have my one week check up. PS said everything looked great and I needed to begin massage. He also said his staff would remove the external sutures that were not dissolvable around my nipples. Now keep in mind, I did a number to my girls. I had a donut lift with 700cc overfilled to 800cc under the muscle on the left and 800cc overfilled to 960cc so there is definitely tightness and stretching going on. The nurse removed the stitches, covered my nipples with bacitracin and then covered them with gauze. She said they look great and away I went. About 8 hours later when I had finally returned from shopping and the drive home, I decided I would relax in a hot bath. When I took off the gauze and seen my nipples, I instantly screamed for my boyfriend to come look. The skin began to seperate from the nipple. See the pictures and you will understand. I immediately called the PS on call and we spoke about my options. He advised that I place butterfly closures on the open spots and more than likely return in the morning to have the sutures redone. Thankfully I am a nurse and had nursing friends who had steri strips at home. Some know them as the annoying tape that never seems to fall off :). My boyfriend put them on where he could. The following morning I went to the clinic and got Benzoin and multiple packs of steri strips. My boss, thankfully use to work in surgery so I went to her house first thing so I could have them put on. I emailed pictures to my PS and they stated I did everything they would have done as my skin is too tight to resuture. So far the steri strips are holding up nicely. I'm just hoping everything is healing like it should. The only problem I have right now is I am getting tape blisters from the steri strips being so tight to keep the incision edges approximated. The night this all happened I literally sat in my recliner trying to decide if I was going to puke, cry or scream. But so far I am a lot calmer and just continuing to hope that my incision line heals nicely. I was absolutely in love with the new girls until this set me back. But hopefully it's only forward from here!