DIEP 2013

Lol gonna have to try the real boob and the TE and see what they look like. Hubby will crack up at the glowing foobs!!

Sb, I think you are right about the line between being healthy and still enjoying life and being a miserable fanatic. I'm trying to find that line as I go...

I tried it when I had real boobs and mine didn't glow!

I am laughing so hard I am going to pee.  This staying up to late and trying to find things to do is getting out of hand...lmaoooooo.   We have lost our minds from lack of sleep.

Does anyone else have that tight girdle feeling? How long does thar last?



i also found out the they put a mesh inside me and sewed two of mymuscles together that had seperated due to twin prehnancy. Will that make healing take longer?

Sweetpickle - the abdominal surgery is called a plication.  Yes, your healing will be a bit different, but your tummy will be flat.  You need to exercise a lot of patience.  We live in a society of instant gratification and want to be up, straight and moving really fast.  Give yourself time to heal both outside and inside.  Some are walking upright within a week and others may take a month.  With the plication, it might be helpful to delay exercising your abs til you hit the 6 week mark to be sure everything has healed inside.  Once your drains are out, you will feel much better.  This is the hardest time in the whole process.  You desparately want to be back to normal and put this behind you.  It will happen, but if you don't give your body time you will not be happy with the result.

My plication happened at my Stage 2.  I was walking a couple of miles at 2 weeks, but after all my drains were out.  At 8 weeks I began riding my bike, but could have done it much sooner.  I started working with a trainer at 8 weeks, too.

Ty martyj!



I am wanting to get back to normal asap. I have three kids that need me up and about too but I am taking my time and going slow.

you ladies are all awesome, i love this

Thank you for the replies. My 7 & 10 yo should be good at home with me, we can walk to the community pool if I'm up to it..plus my bf gets home about 130 in the afternoon so it's not a full day of me being the only supervision. I already have them started with basic laundry and dishwasher...vaccuming too They will be at their dad's the weekend I get home so I'll have a couple days of adjusting without them. 

I just can't stand being so dependent on others, although i looove attention and being pampered (who doesn't) 

I think my manual labor job will be waiting much longer for me to get back there, i have an office job also so I'm sure I'll be able to push pencil and shuffle paper within a couple weeks. 

I started reading a little about dealing with the pause and I guess that'll just be another project. Right now...JUST GET IT ALL OUT!!! LOL

I feel pretty good about everything so far. I have a sentinal biopsy on tuesday and we'll see if it spread at all. But I think I caught it early enough thanks to brca testing!

Hands in prayer position, feeling centered and loved. I think I'll be o.k.

You ladies have no idea how good you all are for the "soul", not just bc related either!

Kuka....I just about spit my morning coffee all over my keyboard reading about the glowing boobs! I don't think I have ever laughed that hard this time of the day! (not quite 8 am as I type this). I'm gonna test my one foob and my one altered boob and get back to you. TOO FRIGGIN FUNNY!!!!!!! Maybe you have stumbled on your sleep medicine....glowing foobs just before bed!!!!! So....what's the word on the knee???

Goldie....yes, we have all lost our minds, but we've lost them together, so it's all good. Maybe that's why we speak the same language, and "get it"???

Janet....waking up (if you ever got any sleep last night) with the veteran badge proudly pinned to your pillow!!!!!!

Marty....thank you so much for staying with us. You have so much info and wisdom and compassion to share, we so appreciate all your help. How are you finding the PT/Pilates???? Is she also working the shoulder????

Bailey....those drains better say byebye today, if they know what's good for them. Is your output down enough for them to go????

Sweetpickle....we've all been there, it takes more time than you want it to, but time passes. Your family needs you back healthy and that's the "big picture"......

Dyvgrl....not off topic at all....we had the soy discussion on here before, too. The line between normal/healthy/obsessed is always a moving target, I think. I totally agree with sbelizabeth the biggest goal is to find a balance between a happy, healthy life, and a "perfect" life. Since perfect is in my opinion, never gonna happen, I go for the happy! In five years, everything that we think now is good for us will be passé anyway, just do your best!

Movie...I've said it before....you are just as much a veteran as the rest of us,and like the rest of us, you have so many other "issues" on the table....hugs going out to you, big time. OK, I will check out the timtam situation for you. If I can source them out, we'll meet by the 3rd tree, next to the rock with the us/canada border plaque on the boundary between Glacier and Waterton.....if the dang bears don't eat them (or us) first!!!!!!

sbelizabeth....thank you for helping me have a decent sleep last night, and given my mood yesterday, I expected another round of insomnia. As I walked into my bedroom, I declared it a "battle-free" zone......might have worked!!!!

Raining here this morning, but also had a rainbow in the sky.....must mean something, eh??

Time for another cup of coffee, since most of mine had to get wiped off my face.... Have good days.

sweetpickle....at this early stage post surgery, I think everyone had a tight tummy/girdle feeling, mesh or no mesh! You've been stretched tightly to close up the tummy skin, and, you're likely swollen, too. Your skin will gradually adjust to it's new "position", and the swelling will go away. Mesh may be part of it, but certainly isn't the only reason.

Katy, I don't have implants, but they were glowing! Maybe I'm loosing my mind! My DH told me this morning that my ambien is making me go crazy at night, lol. Oh well, at least I'm having fun with it!

Nihahi, glad you got a good laugh. Let me know your results after ou try it out.

I wasn't able to go to the doc yesterday. My DH didn't get home until 10:00 pm. I'm hoping he gets home early today so that I can go. It's still swollen and hurting, so something is wrong. It's been about 10 days now and it hasn't gotten any better😞

Well....you can't always get what you want....breast drain pulled...one hip drain remains. My out put on hip drain has been 30 for last three days. She likes 25. But real deciding factor was how swelly my belly was looking today. She said let's go another week. I am prone to seromas so I had to agree. If I had to pick one to lose today it was the breast one so that's good. Looks like I am panty-free for another week!



The noob is less swollen than last week but still swollen ...a lot. Lift and belly incisions look great.



Overall a good appointment.



Oh! Also confirmed I didn't have a DIEP! I had a SIEA. I thought from what DH told me after surgery maybe that is what was done but he never said SIEA and is not a medical person AT ALL. I forgot to ask last week. I am their 2nd SIEA case. It's rare to have the right veins in the right place I guess. Now I have research to do!



Off to stop by my workplace to say hello!



Enjoy your day!

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Glow on their own??? that would be headlights for REAL! I am totally distracted from the glowing since this morning and I am LOL at work. My officemate is thinking that I have gone totally nuts...

Katy that's too funny! Maybe they can put a glowing cast on my leg to match my glowing foobs, lol! I keep telling everybody how I had this major surgery and never had any real pain. I go running a couple times and my knee hurts so much that can't even walk! At least if I go shopping this weekend I'll be able to ride the electric cart again and have some fun!

Bailey I was the same way. I just wanted my foob drain out. The position of it was just off and very uncomfortable. Maybe it will stop putting out so much over the weekend and pull it out early.

Yay Janet!

So happy for you Janet!