And it was the very last surgical procedure I will need!
The tissue expanders have been in for a little over a year, and I am definitely not sad to see them go.
They are heavy and hard and like my amazing plastic surgeon says-they are like pontoons on my chest.
My new boobs are silicone and oh, so soft and not heavy!
Dr B is a perfectionist, and she noticed a slight difference in the skin thickness above my left boob from my right, so she did some fat-grafting to fix it. Which is basically a little liposuction from my hips to plump it up. The liposuction part is the part that hurts the most, so I get to wear a compression binder for 2 weeks. She also fixed my port scar that looked pretty gnarly. And she had to lift one of the sisters to match the other, so I feel like my boobs are sitting just below my chin!
I got 900cc in one and 700cc in the other. Go big or go home-that's our motto!
I get to shower today, but no lifting or pushing for 2 weeks and no running or bouncing for 6 weeks and no heavy lifting for 4 weeks. I can handle those instructions, which is why we are hitting the road to Colorado next week for 2 1/2 weeks of rest and relaxation with family!
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And a little education for those of you that have had boob jobs that are not a result of having them both removed and feel the need to ask why I need so much time off work whereas you only had a weekend or a week off post-op....this is much more than a typical boob job. See all the restrictions above? That's why. And I would have happily traded my breast cancer for your new boobs minus the cancer any day.
I'm just glad to finally be done! All I have left to do now is either get nipples or have them tattooed on.
There are pros and cons to both ways, but both are done in the physician's office so no more surgery!!
I just have to decide which one I want, or both! We just have to wait a couple months for the boobs to settle and then the nipples can be made. If we did it now, there's a chance I would have them pointing in different directions once they settled. Don't want that.
In the meantime we've had some mini crisises at home. Hailey's window leaked water with all the rain and ruined her carpet pad and maybe even her bedroom carpet. But our builder has been awesome and he's fixing it all up. Then Hailey noticed a water spot on her ceiling, and after a little investigative work, we realized our refrigerator is leaking from a connection in the back, thus dripping and ruining my hard woods and part of her ceiling. Argh! Now we are waiting for Nebraska Furniture mart to send somebody out to assess the damage and fix it! Seriously. When it rains, it pours. Literally!
But for all the bad crap, we've got lots of good stuff going on.
Ethan has a new nurse that he adores, and she is so good with him. And she's been so reliable. We get her full-time 40 hours a week when we return from vacation. Woo-hoo!
Hailey has been offered a full scholarship to Barton Community College in Great Bend, Kansas to play volleyball for them! We visited the campus in March and really like the head coach Phil Shoemaker.
And they have a pre-pharmacy and pre-nursing program that will transfer to KU in its entirety when completed!
Parker has started back up with the Staley football team, going to camp for the last two weeks from
6 am-10 am every day. He really enjoys it. He will be starting in a new program at school in the fall called the Avid program for kids who are academically in the middle. He could make all A's if he just put in a little more effort, so now he will have someone he's accountable to daily. I'm hoping this helps, even though I know it won't help with the food hoarding and laundry piles in his room. Oh well, one step at a time.
Brian is still at Shoal Creek days, and seems to always be running his ass off for work. It's nice though because he can come and help me get E on the bus and eat lunch at home.
Me? I'm changing jobs in July. I will be working part-time Saturday and Sunday nights at Shawnee Mission Medical Center and staying on PRN at NKCH. I'm much more of a night person than a day person so these hours are perfect for me. All I have to do now is get my Kansas License, which I have to go to Topeka and the Kansas Board of Healing Arts tomorrow morning for them to decide if I get it.
I hope they won't mind me being all hopped up on Dilaudid and Valium....
Otherwise all is well, just ready to bust outta this town for a while, new boobs and all!
