30 Year Old Runner, Mom of 2 with ITP, 118 Lbs, 5'7, Mentor Memory Shape 350 Under

Well it finally happened. I have big boobs.. I think. I had surgery Feb 18th 2017 at 10 am. It has been a crazy experience. I have ITP it is a blood disease where my body destroys its platelets. I wasn’t sure if i was a candidate to have breast augmentation but both my hematologist and my plastic surgeon were very confident about it and made me feel like it was no big deal. My platelets had been testing around 30,000 in order to have surgery they needed to be in a lot higher in the 80,000 range. My surgery was planned on Feb 11 and in order to have surgery I went on a steroid 2 weeks before for 4 days. My blood was tested the day before the surgery and my platelets actually dropped down to 27,000. Ugh, how annoying they drop by 3,000 after being on these horrible drugs that make you so you cannot sleep for days. We had to cancel the first surgery and reschedule for the following week. I went in to get 2 doses of platelets before the surgery. I was debating between 350cc and 400cc. but I wanted my dr. to choose. He choose the smaller size because I am a runner and one of my biggest concerns was that they would get in the of my running. I only want to be a full see cup so i am anxious to see my results and to see if that is what i have. Everything went well with the surgery. I did loose a lot of blood and they did have to put two drains in. the drains are like to bulbs that fill will the excessive blood. My husband has been emptying them every few hrs and recording the blood loss. We estimate that total with the surgery and after I have probably lost 2 pints of blood. As long as I was sitting down and sleeping I have felt fine. This morning I was feeling pretty well i got up to use the bathroom at 5:30 and felt horrible i was dizzy and nauseous. My husband helped me back to bed and gave me some pain medicine I should have taken one about 3 hrs ago but i didn’t because I was sleeping.

I have decided not to miss a pain medicine dosage. I think if i wouldn’t have missed that one I would have been fine this morning. The past couple of days have been a pretty rough recovery. I have only been eating soup and i have been laying in bed a lot. Everything from my waist up was hurting really really bad today I went to the bathroom and started crying for a minute because I was so discouraged about how crappy I felt. My husband has had to do everything for me. We decided that we should go on a walk. What a great idea that was. the kids loved going outside and riding bikes and sliding and swinging and I walked around and imaged the pain leaving my body. We came back and my sister came to visit it was so nice to see her and just have some support. I feel like 60 times better right now then I did today. Until this point it was just getting worse and worse and I finally feel like it is getting better. Just taking it one day at a time. We are going in tomorrow morning to see if the drains can be removed. Im getting excited to take a peak at the girls. I am so glad that the surgery is over with. It has been a hard recovery so far.

Hoping my bleeding stops to get these out. I'm wrapped so tight I'm taking pain kills just for the pain of being wrapped.

-A (I call it) before surgery 350cc mentor implants. I'm still in a lot of pain 1 week later.