Surgery

I haven’t been on in a while but I wanted to update what happened with my surgery!
We arrived at 11:45am for. 1:15 surgery time. I had to fast from midnight the night before, I could take an anti anxiety pill with one cup of water before 9:30 and that was it. We got there and checked in. I paid my copay which was pretty much my deductible since it’s January! Then we were called back in a little area that was curtained off with a hospital bed. I got my gown on and IV put in. No catheter! Thank you Jesus! Then we waited... it felt like forever, during that time my head anesthesiologists came by we talked about my many irrational fears (which they all reassured me would not happen) and then they asked if I had any issues with motion sickness. I said yes, and they gave me a nausea patch behind my ear (I wore it for three days) During the wait, I went to the bathroom twice with my saline bag because I get the nervous pee’s.

Finally, my doctor arrived! a bit late but, ready to go! She pulled out her trusty purple marker and started drawing all over my chest. She put little dots where my nipples would be and I was amazed! She asked me if I wanted to be a C cup still? And I was ecstatic! I said Yes!! (Because at my initial consult she said I’d likely end up a D/DD since I had such large breasts) then the nurse and anesthesiologists came and wheeled me off to the OR. I remember a few women were in there and they were having me scooch from the bed to the OR table. Once I was there I laid back and saw two men’s faces above me and a light. They were my anesthesiologists, I had asked if I would be monitored the whole time because I was afraid I’d be awake but unable to tell them. He said that wouldn’t happen! Then they said something I have no idea what? and I was out. I woke up in the same curtained room and was very disoriented  about where I was or what was happening. I remember noticing my boobs were way higher and smaller but very swollen. Then Nathan got me dressed and I think they wheelchaired me out, I can’t really remember much about that except they gave me two red carnations. When I got home I thought does this represent my bloody boobs? Lol
Nathan took me home and got me set up in my recliner. He had to go collect the kids from their friends houses. It takes a village!! I was in and out of it waiting for them to come home. I don’t remember much else about that night except I was really tired and I had my hood on over my head the whole time.

I was recently asked how they do the surgery and wanted to give a brief description. I assume people know just because I’ve known since high school lol. Basically what they do is one of two types of incisions. The first is the lollipop, they cut from the chest wall under your breast up to the nipple and remove tissue then resize the nipple and sew it all up and your scar ends up looking like a
lollipop.  The second type, is what I had done, its called the Anchor incision. So they cut the same as the lollipop but due to removing more tissue they cut underneath the breast all the way as far back as needed to get the tissue out and flat enough to match the newly shaped breast, they take the skin and pull it down and sew it and resize and reposition the nipple, the scar looks like an anchor.

My surgeon told me before surgery that I would be more likely to have an opening at the T zone which is where all the skin gets sewn back together at the T of the anchor. Due to the remaining amount of tissue it can have pressure on the incisions and make it harder to heal. She knew that she would try to get me as small as she could but, was also realistic about where I was coming from. More on that later..