Follow my Brava and Fat Grafting Day by Day

I'm back.  Sometimes when we anticipate, it never comes about and that was me with lipo.  I knew I was going to be sore, but the soreness is only a bit more than exercising to the max.  I will take a pain pill this morning only because it is my stomach and getting up and down hurts and I want to be mobile.  Today is a free dome day and so tomorrow I start the next six weeks of pumping.  I am looking forward to it and having the domes stick a bit better now that I am even.  I went into the OR at 8am and I was home by 2:30pm.  Pretty amazing and I cooked dinner.  Not that my husband was not going to do it but I felt well enough and so I did it.  All in all a pretty good day.

I am so excited for eileenkaye1 and her 8 hour nite.  yeh.  

Having done the expanders I have learned that we humans are not very good in the patience department.  I am trying every day, as we all are.  Thanks for all of the good wishes.  I will talk to you soon and keep up the good work.

Hi Everyone.....First night back on the domes and not to bad.  I didn't take a shower though before I put them on and just washed with a wash cloth.  I think a mistake since I had trouble getting them to stick.  Finally good enough to sleep and only woke up a couple of times.  Tummy still sore but not anything that I cannot stand.  Bra off this morning for a shower and some chores and then back on this afternoon.

Eileen why did it keep you up?  Let me know.  

I definately have little boobs and my chest is not so concave.  In thinking about this and my determination to have this done, I have decided that it is because everytime I looked at a concave chest I thought about cancer.  My journey is so I will have days that I don't think about that.  

Thanks for all your blogs.  It certainly helps to have friends in the same place as I am.

Well another day done under "the dome".  I put it on yesterday about 4pm and it is 8am now and it is still on and sticking.  They want you to turn them upside down so that if there is any draining from the lipo surgery it will not get into the pump.  I did not have any draining and I could not get a good stick with them upside down, so last night after some frustration, I ended up putting them on the right way.  Got a good seal, no draining and slept through the night.  Going to see the doctor today.  Bruising from lipo is much better and I am encouraged.  Hope you all are doing well.

Hi dancetrance.....Yes I swapped them and also tried just up side down and I could not get them to stick.  I am lucky on this lipo however, I have no draining.  So I could do them normal and get them to stick.  Not sure on the next lipo though.  Doing this one day at a time.  I have boobs though and I am so excited.

So saw my doctor today and he has me pumping with just the pump for two weeks and then resting for two weeks before I go to hand pumping three weeks before another lipo.  Not opposed to this since I will need to give my skin a rest and we want to make sure that the fat is taking.  So back on bra this evening a 4pm with good suction and will try to make it until tomorrow morning around 9am.  Tummy still sore but I am getting there.

Been a few days but still on my two weeks with just the pump.  Finishing up today and then two weeks without any pumping before three weeks of heavy (hand pump) before more lipo.  I will admit that doing this in the summer is more difficult than in the winter, especially when on estrogen therapy.  Between the hot flashes and the weather I sweat a lot  but the first time that I had a bumps instead of a concave chest I knew that it was all worth it.  I know that this will be worth it.  And, for sure it is not as painful as expanders. 

I am now on a vacation from the brava.  I have noticed that it looks like most of the fat did not take and I am back to being fairly flat.  My surgery though was to straighten out the sides of my chest and not necessarily for the boobs.  I am still opomistic and can't wait for the next step.  My chest is loving the break from the brava and so am I.  Hope all of you are doing well.  An "atta girl" being sent out to lizdehart and her surgery date of August 15.