31 Year Old, No Kids with 13 Year Old 260cc Silicone Implants Removed Today! - Sydney, AU

This website has been so incredibly helpful for me to decide AND TO STAY DECIDED that it was time to remove my implants that I owe this special community my own story. It is definitely not an easy decision to make and an emotional roller coast ride which I am still on. I think we all wish that getting a boob-job meant getting bigger real breast tissue and that was the end of it and not having to make on-going decisions to keep/remove/replace these things!
I got my implants at age 18. I was very very small chested (32AA) and was self conscious about having no boobs - I just wanted a small natural-looking breast that I felt would make me look and feel more in proportion. I left it up to the surgeon to decide what size was best for me and was given silicone 260cc textured implants over the muscle. Even though they weren't perfect (I had capsular contraction on the left side with one failed attempt at fixing it) for a long time I was just happy to just have something in the breast region and I just tried to forget about them and went on enjoying my life!
However you can't always forget and you have to face them sometimes! I very much relate to the stories I have read on here about not being able to hug people close for fear of them feeling them, being embarrassed/ashamed by them unnaturally and obviously jutting out when laying down in a fitness class or at the physio or beach. Shoulder pain, rounded posture, dressing to hide them and never being being able to lay comfortably on my stomach - i cant wait for that day! I am tired of all these things and I'm ready to try to be just me again - I want my body to heal and for me to be as healthy as possible before having children and (hopefully) breast feeding them without any further surgerys hanging over my head or scary thoughts of breast implant rupturing! If I am completely honest if i didn't have any problems/ issues with CC, I may have taken the easier option and replaced them this time (since its been 13 years) for the smallest possible implant available (200cc perhaps?) as it is scary and upsetting thinking about what i'll be left with but in may case they were problematic and after two attempts I'm pretty sure I would just get CC again and I would be back in the same situation wanting them out.
I had the explant this morning and i'm feeling very well just a little bit tender but I haven't had to take any pain medication yet! It took about 2 hours and I was happy to hear that they were both intact although the surgeon has told me that he found I had a slimy infection around the right implant which he has had to wash out and that it was the type of infection antibiotics would not have been able to reach and that my left breast capsule was extremely thick he had to remove it. I can't believe I have had this inside me for however long!
I have to admit I have cried a couple of time since seeing my profile in the mirror - I am tightly bandaged and so I look very different even in clothes I'm so flat! But I just have to remember its for the right reasons and even my surgeon said me 'you did the right thing, those things were better out than in'. I am also lucky to have a very supportive husband who is as excited as I am to start a family and we both felt this was the right time to say goodbye to the fake boobies! I don't regret getting them as I don't want to punish myself more and they did what I wanted them to do - they lifted my 18 year old self self esteem but now my health is my priority!
I will update with some photos as I progress - thank you so much to everyone for sharing your stories I really could not have done it wiithout you!