Surgery #2!

Exciting news!  Today I got my paperwork for my reconstruction surgery.  It's scheduled for October 2, which is a Wednesday.  It's in the same surgery center where I had my mastectomy (within the same hospital).  This one is an outpatient surgery, and the recovery is much easier from what I'm told.  I should be back to driving within a week.  I'm so excited to get these damn expanders out.  They have seemed to soften over time, and I can no longer feel the edges of them poking into my rib cage, so that's nice.  But I can feel the ports on the fronts of them, and I have this really gross fat flap thing on the sides of my boobs, like almost under my armpit.  So even though I don't need a bra for support, I still need one for shaping.  (Whole other story, but OMG it was so hard to find a bra to fit!  Underwire won't work so I needed a soft one, like a training bra!)  Anyway, Dr. C feels that I am going to be super happy with my results.  I don't think he gets me at all, because I really couldn't care less what they look like!  I just want them to have a somewhat normal shape so I can wear my clothes sans bra, and sleep on my stomach again.  Scars don't matter to me in the slightest, especially since I just plan to tattoo over them!  I have my pre-op appointment on September 26th, and that will just be bloodwork and a check up.  My other pre-op consisted of bloodwork, a check up, and EKG and a chest x-ray, but apparently the latter two are valid for 6 months.  Yay!  It's funny, I'm not nearly as nervous about surgery this time, maybe because the first one went so well.  I really feel as though I had a good surgery experience, even though I had one hell of a recovery.  The procedure itself went well, the hospital staff was wonderful, and I woke up feeling pretty good, considering.  Fingers crossed that this one goes the same!