Day 1...Again

Third round of Day 1's...

And this one has by far been the EASIEST! Hallelujah! Now - we are back in Spanx/compression tights for the next month and I haven't ventured much outside yet and my last surgery was in the fall so we will see how this goes heat wise but so far so good!

Surgery went really well. My surgeon recently went into private practice and now does her surgeries at Memorial Hermann Memorial City so it was a new hospital experience but overall a good one (with the exception of the registration girl I had for pre-op but I'll save that for the mail survey).

After a few good talks with my surgeon and barring anything disastrous happening - we both kind of agreed that this would very likely/hopefully be my last implant surgery. We went from a 535 cc round high profile implant all thew way to I think a 685 cc high profile round implant (history: started as a 32D, went flat w/ the mastectomy, got expanders, first implants bringing me from flat to a small 32C  per my request, got rippling through both sides, new implants will take me back to a full C/small D likely once all the swelling goes down). Should I get rippling again - that may possibly be how my body takes to these implants but we both feel pretty confident that with this new, larger implant filling out the whole pocket and the fat grafting she did should avoid all that (oh ya and the fact that I'm not training for Ironman!).  So fingers crossed! Feeling good so far!

**PSA*** My plastic surgeon is Melissa Crosby with Memorial Plastic Surgery  (she left MDACC for private practice a few months back). I could not be more blessed to be under this woman's care. She is incredibly kind, compassionate, prompt, realistic, patient and above all very very very skilled. This has been my 3rd surgical procedure with her (not to include all the tissue expander stuff) and each step of the way she and her team have set the bar high and met it. While I'm of course super swollen still - I can already tell a major positive difference since my last implants. If any of you are in the Houston area and looking for a surgeon- I could not give a higher recommendation than this. Seriously - if you want the best - look no further.  ***

Ok back to day 1 (x3)...I of course slept the WHOLE dang day away yesterday. Then all that sounded good to eat was lucky charms...so I proceeded to eat all the marshmallows with some cereal double fisting straight out of the box and killed it a reasonable amount out of a bowl like a real adult.  I did take my prescribed pain meds 2x yesterday but I'm back to just ibuprofen today which is good. I am back to sleeping on the couch (you can read in previous posts this is the way to go for your first day or two after surgery ladies unless your bed is super close to the floor). I am a belly sleeper so being on the couch is the easiest and best way to keep me on my back or slightly on my side bc I will flip like a pancake if I'm in my bed.

I tend to get a little overly ambitious when I feel this good post surgery so I think I may start today with a little mani/pedi if I get that far...or maybe just some new girl netflix streaming, laundry folding, house straightening and a chai tea on my couch. We shall see what the day brings.

So that's where we are friends! Stay tuned for day 2!