A little sore and sorry for myself, although I'm all taped up and cant see my new nips but bruised and battered everywhere around my hips.
So this is what liposuctioning is about. My plastic surgeon has sucked out some fat from my hips and put it back into my lower back. This is where the 2 scars met in the middle from the gluteal donor tissue sites and left behind a puffy pocket in between. Quite weird when wearing anything waisted as my clothes wouldn't sit flat. He also put some back in the hollows lower down, but by all accounts I'll never be the same again. I will always have the weird divets and pockets - so I'll have to give away my bikinis :(
Normally most people get the fat removed for good, but mine was just moved to a different place. You would also wear compression shorts after, but that would squeeze my newly placed fat so thats a no-no, I can also not sit back on my bottom (only forward) and no sleeping on my back.
On the upside, he borrowed from Paul and gave to Peter and that is a huge improvement from how I have been for the past 8 or so months. My non cancer side was so much bigger, heavy and tight. I think I had mentioned it feeling like an amputated leg stump on my chest. Well it is still slightly bigger but no way near as heavy and its softer. The cancer side is bigger and rounder so I'm happy with the girls now.
While I was in hospital, I had to share with another girl. She was having augmentation - a young girl. We got talking and she asked me excitedly what I'd had done. When I told her she was in awe of the liposuction until I told her the reason why. That stopped her in her tracks and she contained herself. Luckily she went home instead of staying overnight, since she was bouncing around the room with her boyfriend in her exercise gear while I could hardly move from pain. It made me feel 'old'.
From what I can gather from their 'loud conversation', it seems to be a thing with most of her young friends having augmentation as well. She was sending them photos and they were all commenting on their own experience. Rather scary really.
So just waiting for the swelling to go down to see what the final result is and I'm almost complete again - in a different way.
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