Tag: top surgery

vanhalenofficial:

So I’m like 23 days post op now and here’s what I got: according to people I know I heal really well even though I don’t listen to my doctor’s orders. I’m super stubborn :/

My left side looks reeeeaaallly good. My right side is a little rough.

My nips are peeling and the incisions are looking good. I can take baths and go swimming now.

Also like I love the shooting pains in the incisions, and not being able to feel a 1 inch by 2 inch rectangle of skin on both sides of my chest.

Uhhh I know it’s only been like 3 weeks but I just kinda do whatever i want activity wise

So I’m like 23 days post op now and here’s what I got: according to people I know I heal really well even though I don’t listen to my doctor’s orders. I’m super stubborn :/

My left side looks reeeeaaallly good. My right side is a little rough.

My nips are peeling and the incisions are looking good. I can take baths and go swimming now.

my top surgery recovery

Day 1: it was fine. Operation was fine everything was cool EXCEPT the two ace bandages.

Day 2: I slept. At this point I was taking all the meds they prescribed to me (a narcotic, a muscle relaxer, and a nerve pain thing)

Day 3: we (aka my family) found out I’m bad at recovery and listening to directions. This was not news to me. I made my nana cry because I wanted to sleep and 3 people kept bombarding me with questions. Last time I took any of the meds.

Day 4 & 5: first post op appointment. I didn’t like my nurse. I didn’t get my drains out. I was angry (and still doped up from yesterday). Tired but functional. Acting and doing everything as normal minus shower and lifting shit. I took of my ace bandages because I couldn’t breathe, put on old zip up binder

Day 6 & 7: same essentially.

Day 8: haha guess who’s driving?

Day 9-14: got my drains out the ninth day or tenth day idk. Um… not wearing any compression now. I wasn’t given many post op directions. I got constipation directions (and… was never constipated) and nipple instructions. Took a shower. Nipples are looking alright. The entire left side looks about 5x better than the right. I’m not really… concerned about scarring? Like I was always prepared for really awful scars and I don’t really mind if I have really awful scars. Really satisfied with my nips and the way the incisions look… umm I’ll eventually post pictures.

vanhalenofficial:

vanhalenofficial:

My review of top surgery: weird parts of my chest have no feeling and that’s cool with me. Nipples are weird and they’re peeling. Like when you get sunburnt and the dead skin comes off. My doc wouldn’t take out tue drains on tuesday even though I’ve barely drained,,, which was annoying and now it’s thursday and barely 1cc comes out. UGH. Uhhhuhhh i barely took the medicine but when i did i was a big grumpy bitch because i just wanted to sleep but the world wanted to play 20 questions with me. I really just want the ace bandages off of my body because i can’t fuckin breathe,, but i cannot. I also really want to sleep on my stomach and side but I cannot. So uhhh that’s my review. It’s a pain in my ass now but like, it’ll get better. And it’s so so so so so worth it. Also my nana asked if it feels weird not having tits anymore and nope. It sure doesn’t feel weird, it feels right

Also exactly 1 (one) suture is poking my underarm and it’s driving me up the wall. And I’m so close to trying to wear my binder instead of the ace bandages because I’d like… to breathe?? And sleep??? While breathing????? I’d also like to do my t shot again,,, since I would have had to stop for like literally 5 weeks. Blegh

Now there are sutures on both side irritating my skin :/ anD my drains are hurting. The audacity of this plastic tubing. I never.

Anyways I really want a shower because now it’s been a week without one. I also want a bath. With expensive lush products.

But like. ~brightside~ pride is next weekend and next week trans youth group meets and I’ll have my drains out but I’ll still be wearing bandages and shit during pride which kinda sucks 😦 (it really sucks because pride is hot and I’m a baby)

My review of top surgery: weird parts of my chest have no feeling and that’s cool with me. Nipples are weird and they’re peeling. Like when you get sunburnt and the dead skin comes off. My doc wouldn’t take out tue drains on tuesday even though I’ve barely drained,,, which was annoying and now it’s thursday and barely 1cc comes out. UGH. Uhhhuhhh i barely took the medicine but when i did i was a big grumpy bitch because i just wanted to sleep but the world wanted to play 20 questions with me. I really just want the ace bandages off of my body because i can’t fuckin breathe,, but i cannot. I also really want to sleep on my stomach and side but I cannot. So uhhh that’s my review. It’s a pain in my ass now but like, it’ll get better. And it’s so so so so so worth it. Also my nana asked if it feels weird not having tits anymore and nope. It sure doesn’t feel weird, it feels right

It’s gotten to the point of me realizing there’s no way in hell I can afford the top surgery I scheduled. And it’s kinda heartbreaking.

I only scheduled it as soon as I did, because my dad said that whatever money needs to be paid, he’ll pay.

Then I found out he hadn’t taken his meds since July. Which really explains why he was okay with spending the money and why he screamed at me for something super small.

It’s just. I feel dumb for having the hope that I could get top surgery. I feel really, really dumb.

I work 25 hours most weeks, and I pick up extra shifts when I have the energy. I’m in high school. I have college classes for fucks sake.

I’m just sad.