Can you believe it, I had to drive myself to A&E 10 days ago, in agony and scared. My remaining implant had doubled in size. I ended up being admitted to hospital and put on IV antibiotics. 3 days later I went into surgery, they removed 1 pint of puss /infection and my implant.
I've been home 4 days now. Pain is improving slowly. Can't lift or drive for 2 weeks, so already fed up. Fed up of being stuck indoors, think I've had my fair share of that!
Due to the snow I removed my drain myself 🙊 I looked on you tube how to do it, I had surgical wipes and it was causing me pain, so I thought sod it and it was no longer needed. I've had enough of them in the last 3 years, and always watched them being removed and it's easy enough. It made me feel a bit queasy for 5 minutes, but the relief after was so worth it.
My head is in a bad place at the moment, I feel like I'm mourning my boobs for the first time in 3 years now I'm fully flat, but will see how I feel once I'm recovered from this surgery. Once again I have a lot of thinking to do, do I carry on with reconstruction or give in and stay flat. Either way I have at least one more surgery, to either neaten up my skin flaps if staying flat or the TRAM/DIEP flap surgery if I decide to use my tummy for new boobs.
Never had a canulla on my little finger before!
Post surgery
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