Morning After

I’m doing good! Thank goodness for meds! ;-) Just pressure and some burning feeling.

Sharing a room with another patient… we have many similarities (i.e. Same doctors, type of breast cancer)…it’s fantastic!! She had her surgery first yesterday and was up in room ~5. I’m a bit jealous of that. and wish I wasn’t 4 hours behind her in being slower and still waking up from surgery. However, it’s been super refreshing to get to know her and her story while we wake up this morning. I’ve been calling her my “surgery sister”.

It’s weird because in this shared room we both have different nurses (mine ROCKS, by the way). After she called in her breakfast order, I asked her, “Are we allowed to talk?”. LOL. That’s how it all started. Once we were prepared to leave, we had both curtains pulled back and chatting. I wish we had more time together!

Dr assistants came in ~7 a.m. to check the new boobs and said everything looks good!

Prior to them arriving, my rockstar nurse had mentioned “my expanders”, and I was like “WHAT? They had to put expanders in?”. She said there are no notes from the Reconstruction/Plastics Dr., so she wasn’t sure. I thought I was going to have implants done since radiation wouldn’t be needed. Not that having expanders mattered… they got the cancer, I can deal with the aftermath. It was a little … no… It was a LOT annoying there were zero notes from Plastics on the surgery for my nurse to know. So it was a relief to see the assistant, Dr. Dan, to the Plastic’s Dr. and hear that they were able to put implants in.

Now to choose my breakfast!! I’m famished!! Last meal was supper 2 days ago :-)