My Life Transformation in 15months - DVT&PE Survivor - 100lb Weight Loss - Breast Reduction @ 33years Old - Wellington, FL

First Happy Birthday to my Surgery Sister Cree11!

Random Thoughts/Tips:

- I still cannot change my dressings alone. It is yucky to me. Nurse does it for me 1x per day and my mom does it the other. You may want to consider this if you are not good with stitches.

- I bought the pillow with arms for back support and I love it.

- Again - Comfort Bali Revolution for the win

- I place a Telfa strip over each nipple/incision and then place an ABD pad over the Telfa strip. I then put on my bra. It feels more comfy and helps keep Telfa in place.

- I have ate a healthy diet since surgery. Fiber bars..hard boiled eggs..yogurt...chicken/fish. I drink a lot of water. Down 4 lbs

- Pineapple juice with crushed ice was so refreshing the first few days

- Do not expect to get dressed up. Wear comfortable relaxing clothes.

- First few days in the car. ..bring a pillow to hug to your body. It helped.

- If your boobs look like mine, post pics so other woman know what to expect

- Take pictures. It will help you remember how far you have come.

- I have no regrets

- I actually do not know what the total cost of surgery was. Insurance covered the reduction. I paid 4,000 for the lift and lipo.

- The lipo is hands down what hurt me. The boobs would have been manageable without the Lipo

I am going back to work tomorrow!

8/15

Level 30 freak out. Not really much to say. I will let the pics speak for themselves. No matter how you prepare yourself...you are not ready to see your body like this. And honestly. ..either people do not post these pics or I somehow missed finding a pair that look like mine in the 1.5 million pics I look at. My surgeon has and continues to have my 100% confidence. And a lot.of my bruising can be from the blood thinner shot.

I saw my doc today 8/18 and they were not.phased by them at all. There is still severe swelling, bruising? And things need to settle. They assured me this would happen

OMG I cannot believe I am posting these.

8/12

So my mommy took me to the hospital. Yup my little 120lb mother with a 32 took her 190lbs 40DDD daughter to get a breast reduction! Her daughter that she watched battle with her weight since 12. She was proud, scared, and excited. We checked in at 8am and waited for the nurse to call me back. Left mom in the waiting room...got a lot of instructions about peeing in a cup, how to put the gown on, and where to go when I was done. I walked out in my sex hospital gown and got sent back into my changing room because I put it on wrong. Haha! I love being me. I then hand my urine sample for pregnancy test to some guy nurse and head to curtain number 3. Put my compression stocking on....so important for me and then my doc came in. And he looks at my face and my body and tells me that my face doesn't match my body. It's true...it doesn't. And he tells the nurses how much weight I have lost. And I am proud he is my doc. His assistant walks in..sees me naked and tells me how much my life was going to change. He draws me up. And the nurse walks in to tell me I have a positive pregnancy test. OK REALLY? How does that even happen....my Tubes are tied and my period ended 8/11....it is so Par for the course with me, we laugh. We wait about 20 minutes for my negative blood test to come back. And we were cleared. I got a happy drug...was pushed to the operating room and was sleeping within what felt like seconds. I was out of surgery around 3. And spent until 9pm in recovery due to a bp at 70/40. They pumped fluids, stopped pain meds and we're giving me neo. Nothing worked until I was given an injection of Albumin. I had such a great team in recovery. I got to my room, met my nurse and explained I was starving. They got me chicken, cut it for me and I chowed down. Pain was what I expected
..it hurt! By 4am I needed to get out of bed and they got me up and I walked around...This felt great. I hit the pain pump as much as I could...not going to lie..they were going to take it away at some point, and I was going to make the best of it. They took it away the next morning. I was up walking around in the morning and was able to go home by 5pm. I also found out I was getting a home health nurse! Score! They come over to change dressings once per day :)

So I had a reduction, lift and lipo. I am going in for a TT on 9/26. Something I never expected were for my clothes to not fit. It looked like I sat on a tire...use I will share a pic. Holy crap!

8/13 my nurse comes and just by luck it was my awesome nurse from.the night before. I was so Lucky and she told me how sweet I was :)

My boobs are wrapped. My body is swollen and the next time they will be released from the bandage is 8/15. I am also taking Lovenox shots to help prevent a clot...just because I am now at risk.

8/14 9pm, I get the mother of all migraines..The Percocet is not helping and I wake up multiple times throughout the night crying.

8/15 - alarm.goes off at 645 to make it to my 8am appt the headache is massive and it is a 30 minute drive. I cried. We got.to.the doctor, I told them what was wrong and they were able to give me something for the pain. I told them I did not want to see my breasts. I lay on the table, they remove some staples and some sutures. They wrap me back up and I head home..In a lot less pain.

I slept the entire day!