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from my last entry until Day 11 after surgery
May 31, 2013
I still haven't updated my pictures here in the OH, i I have had some sever itching the last few days because of the paper tape causing me blisters,today seems to be a lot better in the itching ddepartment. I pulled my 2and drain yesterday, it came out easy as the first one did untiI i got to the larger flat portion with holes and then it set me on fire but I pulled until I got it to come out of the hole and then the rest was a breeze, Dr. Sauceda told me to pull it but I haven't done much of anything so that may be why I had such a decrease in the output also. I wish I had waited because I decided to go to town and when I got home my tummy was a bit swollen and felt uncomfortable, I put a hand towel in the bottom portion of my compression garment for extra compression and took four ibuprofen and a benadryl for the itching from the tape and woke up feeling much better. My breast are really sore but I think it is from the settling of the implants. Speaking of implants, during my markup I mentioned that my right breast was larger than my left and always has been but I don't think the extra tissue was taken into account because as the swelling subsides they are still very much different sizes, iI know this is normal but it is VERY obvious and frustrating to me. I'm sure it is half a size possibly a whole size difference. I'm going to wait the full Size months to see where they are at that point but iI am praying I don't need a revision, this has always bothered me and I was hoping I would have more taken out of that breast to make them more symmetrical but I really don't think it is going to go down that much, at first I just thought my right was way more swollen but I'm thinking not. When I was sixteen I would have trouble finding bras that fit because of the difference in each breast and pray that isn't going to be the case now, I am now thinking I should have put more emphasis on the size difference but I figured just the casual mention of the size difference would be enough. I know the good Doc has a partner so I am wandering if he forgot to mention it and the other doc didn't measurother something. I'm sure I'm just stressing for nothing right now but my breast was one of the main things I wanted just for me to feel more like a woman and the thought of a revision just isn't that appealing to me especially since at this point I have absolutely no feeling in the right nipple as it is. this process has been a great one up to this point, my swelling has been minimal, iI have had no wound seperation (knock on wood), I finished my antibiotic and will get my stitches out soon and am not going to get in a hurry to get my last drain out, i I want it to be draining very little when it finally gets pulled so I have a very little chance of seromas or swelling. I plan on even doing some more moving around a few days also just to make sure the output isn't slowed down because of my activity. The butt flap augmentation feels very strange when I go from sitting to standing and also when I am walking around, my butt seems to be the most swollen and I will be so glad when that part gets to be more normal looking, right now my butt and back have become one (yes tthat's an exagerration) but it is still annoying and today seems to be my "I wanna find something to complain about day", I wish I had gotten my arms done also but I'm glad I didn't at the same time. I do want to go back and see Dr. S later for the arms, legs, and maybe the waddle under my neck but it will be at least a year or more before I even start planning that, I am very happy that I chose the surgeon that I did, although the language barrier between myself and some of the nurses was very difficult I managed just fine and with my Auntie that went with me we did just fine. They aren't as clean as the nurses here in the states as far as being sterile when changing the dressing, IV, and catheter stuff. They don'tmind coming into contact with our blood, the first time my dressings were changed the nurse came in with antibiotic cream that has been used before and used it straight from the tube in a non-clean way, now the next nurse I had was patti and she did use gloves and brought in a fresh tube of antibiotic cream that was used only on me so I felt much safer. They are all really good nurses there but they just weren't taught the same way we were here in the U.S.A. would I do it again, "In A Heartbeat", Dr. Sauceda, his wife and all his staff were wonderful.....different than what I am used to on the nursing part but wonderful all the same. Dr. Sauceda makes you feel so at ease and truly has your best health at heart, he actually cares about us and you don't find much of that here in the U.S.A. the doctors here most of the time are worried more about the money than whether they are doing the right thing for you. I Loved my MTY experience and will definitely be doing it again in the future.
