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<\/a><\/p>\nIf you ever have to get this done, demand that it be done the day before so you can get sedation. I am not kidding. It was that bad.<\/p>\n
I feel a little better emotionally for now. I know once I get a good look at what is under my bandage\u00a0 I will probably freak. Trying to not look at it at all right now. I can tell you that it makes my fat way more obvious. You never realize what your boobs are hiding till they are gone \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 My belly is still swollen from the anesthesia, but, it is mostly fat. Just more motivation for me to get moving.<\/p>\n
They took 2 nodes on each side, and there was a 5th farther up in my chest close to where my port was, but under all the muscle and some important nerves, so my dr. decided that unless the other nodes come back positive, she did not want to cause that much damage to me. Apparently getting to it would be serious work and would leave me quite a mess. She used surgical glue instead of stitches since I have an issue with tegaderm and my sister had a severe allergic reaction to dissolvable stitches.<\/p>\n
The drains are weird. It is weird to have tubes coming out of your body that drain fluid. I feel a bit Borg-ish, but without the tough or sexy. They are cumbersome and in the dang way. Hopefully they will be coming out on Monday at my follow-up. NOt looking forward to having even more of them when I have my next surgery.<\/p>\n
My port is out! I am so glad it is gone. It was so freaking annoying. Once I am allowed to sleep on my side again I will be so relieved to not feel like I am choking anymore.<\/p>\n
So, again, the staff at Scott&White was amazing. Everyone there was so kind and had a general happy disposition the entire time. I think they were happy that I was not a super needy patient, but know that they were just generally pleasant folks. The Temple hospital was very nice, considering how old it is. I had a lovely private room and the food was good even though they put ham on my pancakes after 3 people told everyone we came in contact with that I am a vegetarian. They were uber-apologetic about it and offered to bring me another breakfast. All in all, I have to say that S&W is the best hospital system in the area. I have had terrible experiences at the other hospitals in Austin over the years and am really glad there is a better alternative available.<\/p>\n
My Room:<\/p>\n
Erica is here with me for the next few days! yay! I love my BFF and am so glad that she has been able to come up and be with me. The weather is really crazy right now. It is seriously pouring rain at the moment. Norbert has his trauma jacket on and we have some candles going since the power went out a bit earlier. Hopefully it will stay on the rest of the night and the rain will subside a bit. There is some serious flooding around town already. There are always some idiots that drive right into low water crossings and end up endangering themselves and their rescuers. Turn around, don’t drown, or I will make fun of you.<\/p>\n Well, this is all I can post for now. Hope everyone has a good night and is safe out there.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n xoxo- jeni<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dude. It doesn’t hurt as bad as I thought it would, but it still hurts like a bitch. Could be much, much worse though. I may meander a bit in my post as I am on some light pain killers, and a lot of my body trying to deal with trauma. The thing that REALLY hurt was the pre-surgery node mapping. HOLY BALLS! No local – just a strait injection into the nipple area of radioactive isotopes that burn like nothing I have ever experienced before. And it makes your pee insane green. If you ever have to get this done, demand that it be done the day before so you can get sedation. I am not kidding. It was that bad. I feel a little better emotionally for now. I know once I get a good look at what is under my bandage\u00a0 I will probably freak. Trying to not look at it at all right now. I can tell you that it makes my fat way more obvious. You never realize what your boobs are hiding till they are gone \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 My belly is still swollen from the anesthesia, but, it is mostly fat. Just more motivation for me to get moving. They took 2 nodes on each side, and there was a 5th farther up in my chest close to where my port was, but under all the muscle and some important nerves, so my dr. decided that unless the other nodes come back positive, she did Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.super-crush.com\/blahblahblah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.super-crush.com\/blahblahblah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.super-crush.com\/blahblahblah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.super-crush.com\/blahblahblah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.super-crush.com\/blahblahblah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.super-crush.com\/blahblahblah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"http:\/\/www.super-crush.com\/blahblahblah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.super-crush.com\/blahblahblah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.super-crush.com\/blahblahblah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.super-crush.com\/blahblahblah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n