Reeka's blog: "Whatever"

Yes, I made it through the surgery on Tuesday.  But, as seems to be typical with me, nothing ever goes right.  They performed a Free TRAM flap, where they take skin, fat, muscle, and blood vessels from the abdomen and use microsurgery to attach it all back up on the breast.  Unfortunately, even though they made all the connections, after 3 tries they had to give up and take another section of tissue and try again.  Luckily they hadn't removed both sides initially, as they often do, so they were able to do that.  So, the surgery lasted 12 hours instead of the usual 6ish, and I've been really out of it.  It doesn't help that my allergies are kicking in megastyle and I have to sleep on my back, which induces a lot of coughing :/  But, as of today, I'm on my feet walking and switched over to oral pain meds instead of IV.  I still have an IV to get the Heparin I need to avoid blood clots.   Hopefully that will come out in another day or two.

So, not as much pain as I expected but it's no spring picnic either.  And now it seems I'll be an even smaller size than expected since they had to take extra tissue... which just means i'll need to shop sooner.  

It kinda hurts to sit up long... I'd expected to spend a boatload of time online during recovery but this time it's just not working out.  Ta ta for now.