I get implants today!

October 1, 2019

Here we go! Heading to Elliot-1day surgery to have my implants placed and get rid of these horrendous expanders. They are like two hard rock bowling balls and I am so excited to have nice soft pillows…eeeek!! 🤗

Wish me luck! 

KPOWPOW💗

VIP PASS

October 2, 2019

My Aunt Deb was working at Elliot-1 day surgery today and made sure to tell everyone that I was a VIP!! 😁 She checked on me often and made sure I had an “A” team! Talk about getting rid of nerves and feeling so special and well taken care of!! Thanks Aunt Deb!!

So I arrived at 6:30am to do pre-op stuff including peeing in a cup, receiving IV fluids, meds, and my favorite part (the heated mattress)!!! Except this time they didn’t use a mattress.. they put the vacuum heater right inside my actual Johnny I was wearing. SO warm and cozy 👏 I then went in for surgery around 7:30am and it lasted about 3 hours. I was SO out of it when I started waking up.. I just kept wanting to go back to sleep. At one point I’m pretty sure I fell asleep sitting up hahaha!! They even said they had to give me an extra med to help the anesthesia wear off lol!! Are you surprised people??? I mean I do love my sleep/naps! 🤣 I asked for pain meds almost immediately! Holy painful… like no lie this was more painful then my mastectomy and abdominal fat graft! Which was a definite surprise! When I woke up the main source of pain was underneath my breast where the incisions are. They loaded me up on meds prior to leaving around 1:00. I took a wheel chair out of there and every little bump on the car ride home was super painful 😣 I get into bed right away and the back of my legs start killing me as well as my back. The back must have been referred pain??? Not to sure but I was SO uncomfortable. Kept waking up and just couldn’t find that “comfy spot”. I’m not one to take meds unless its absolutely necessary but today/tonight I stayed on top of it and took Tylenol, Advil and oxy around the clock! Around 7:00pm I started feeling better and the pain was FINALLY subsiding 🙏

The night before surgery I was freaking out a bit…”omg will they be too big, should I go smaller, what if I don’t like the size, etc etc”. I kept telling myself to just trust Dr. Burdette (my plastic surgeon) and go for it! Because initially I wanted a little smaller but he was worried I would have a large gap in my chest and going a little bigger would fill that in. All I can say is WOW…. they seriously look AMAZING and the perfect size!! I’m so happy with the results. And the fat grafting looks great.. he filled my chest in so I don’t have that flat chest/shelf look. He’s a fricken BOOB ANGEL!! 😇 THANK YOU DR.B!!!! 

And a special thank you to my Mom and Jamie for being by my side today and taking care of me!! Also, a huge thank you to Gram and Pops for watching the kids this week while I recover! SO grateful for that!! Thanks Dad for visiting tonight 🙂 and thank you to family and friends for all the good luck/get well messages! ❤️❤️ I always feel SO loved!! 

I keep waking up tonight in pain right when I’m due for meds! It’s currently 1:30 in the morning lol.. I guess I’ll try and get back to sleep for a few hours before I wake up again 🤪

I will keep you posted!

KPOWPOW

Post-op

November 10, 2019

Its been 6 weeks since my last surgery and I am doing really well!! It was by far the toughest recovery but I got through it!! I had severe back pain for a few weeks, my inner thighs were extremely painful and bruised…going to the bathroom was the WORST.. I would cringe thinking about sitting on the toilet lol. SO painful!!! Surprisingly my actual breast didn’t hurt that bad and healed quickly! ALTHOUGH I was reaching into my closet a few weeks after surgery and felt a stabbing pain in my left breast. I thought for sure I ripped internal stitches or did something bad… but Amy J wasn’t concerned when she saw me and eventually the pain went away.. phew!!! I LOVE my implants and don’t miss the expanders one bit! I feel normal again! (Well as normal as it gets lol).