Below are the most recent 6 friends' journal entries.

Friday, December 25th, 2009
breastreduction [ gunskillgirls ]	10:08p	pictures! my surgery was december 14th, so i am now 11 days post-op. i'm still getting used to what i look like, but i wish i had done it sooner!!!! ( before + after ) (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 21st, 2009
breastreduction [ fannyhyeta ]	3:35p	5 days postop photos! ( Read more... )They're a little lower than I expected, and I wish the nipples were slightly smaller and pointed a little more forwards than sideways..  but they're healing very nicely and they are such a huge improvement from Before.. I love them already! I don't really have any bruising; they're a tiny bit yellow right around the nipple, but you can't really see it here.  The incisions below each one are also very red, but the vertical scars are hardly irritated, and overall I think they're looking really good for the first week!!  They don't hurt at all; I can even lie on my stomach for awhile if I want to.  I am so excited, I can't even put it in words.  Every day I come up with a new reason that this surgery was a great decision for me.  For example, I was Christmas shopping at the mall for my sister, and stopped in at Ann Taylor loft (one of my favorite stores) just for kicks.  My automatic reaction to some shirts was "That's cute, but I can't pull it off."  And then I remembered that I'm a new woman, tried them on, and was amazed at just how good clothes look on me now! If you're on the fence about this surgery, all I can tell you is this: This may have been the best decision I have ever made, and I haven't even been healing for a week ( Click for Post Op Photos (Days 1-5) ) (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 18th, 2009
breastreduction [ quietgrrrl ]	10:32p	confession time I'm about 90% sure I want the surgery. The reason I haven't seen a surgeon yet is because I'm terrified of hearing someone at my insurance company say "You can't have surgery because YOU'RE TOO FAT." I have enough issues with body image without someone telling me I deserve an aching neck and shoulders and chronic headaches because I'm fat. I managed to get down from a 22W to a 14. But the last year and a half I've just been consistently losing, regaining, and relosing the same five pounds. I exercise vigorously and regularly and I actually enjoy it. I've experimented with a wide range of caloric intakes in hopes of finding a number that's low enough to lose without suffering miserably and that I can consistently stick to instead of starving and binging. But I've recently come to the conclusion that this size is pretty much where I'm gonna stay, even though my BMI is on the edge of obese. I think all I can hope for now is to not regain any weight. My weight isn't a pressing health issue, per my last physical. My tests all came out good to excellent, probably because of how active I am and a good knowledge of nutrition. I power lift, so I think that if you figured in my muscle mass my BMI would be comfortably "overweight" rather than "obese". (I get plenty of aerobic exercise, too, so that's not what's keeping me fat.) But I had a good long cry the day I realized fit and fat is the best I can hoipe for. I work at it all the time, but it's a struggle to feel good about yourself when you're reminded every day that every accomplishment a woman achieves means nothing to the world at large if she's not also attractive. I really want breasts that don't feel alien on my body, but I'm not prepared to be told that that's one more thing I don't deserve because I'm not hot. Current Mood: sad Current Music: Law & Order (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
breastreduction [ fannyhyeta ]	10:42a	HOME FROM SURGERY!! Hey Guys- I had my surgery yesterday at 7:45 am, and it ended at like 10:20 if you include dressing all the wounds and everything. My PS's policy is to keep people overnight, so I just got home. I'm really not uncomfortable at all! Slightly itchy under the coverings, and it's a little weird to have these drains hanging off of my.. but that's it.. obviously the pain meds are doing their job :) It's so weird to think that I got half my chest cut off (370 grams on the left, 325 on the right) to go from a DD to.. well.. I don't know yet cause i can't see them. But I don't feel changed yet; I guess that will happen when I actually get to see them The only things that were unpleasant: 1) when I woke up from anesthesia, I was more groggy than I was the only other time I had surgery (appendectomy, 4 years ago), and it was hard because my eyes wanted to be open, but they kept closing and my head kept lolling to the side.. it just wasn't the best wakeup that it could have been 2) all I ate for the entire day yesterday was 2 crackers, bc I felt nauseous 3) when my PS was drawing on me I was very self conscious as she was pushing my chest around, but obviously that is her job haha 4) when I stayed overnight they put these self inflating/deflating wraps around my calves to increase circulation and prevent blood clots, but they got sweaty and kind of uncomfortable HOWEVER. My chest really feels fine, and the experience was a LOT better and easier than I imagined. They were not kidding when they said that after injecting the stuff into my IV, it was no time at all before I was waking up after the surgery! Current Mood: accomplished (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
breastreduction [ gunskillgirls ]	2:14p	surgery...completed! :) hi everyone :) i had my surgery yesterday, so i figured i would update and let everyone know how it went (especially since i know there are a few people that are either getting theirs soon or trying to get insurance to pay for it!) i had to be at the surgery center at 9:30am and my surgery was at 10am. i wasn't nervous or worried AT ALL, i was just so excited because i've wanted to get it done for so long. i basically chatted up a storm to the doctors and nurses until they started the anesthesia and put the oxygen mask on me. the last thing i remember is saying that the operating table was pretty comfortable and that i had a memory foam on my bed at home and that everyone should get one (LOL) next thing i know i woke up and was moved to the recovery room! everything was kind of spinning, and when the nurse came over the first thing i asked was WHAT TIME IS IT! and it was 1:50pm, and i was like OH NO I'M GOING TO MISS DR. PHIL!!! (LOL again) then they moved me to this giant recliner chair and put all these warm blankets on me :) and my parents came in the room, and the first thing i said was GIVE ME MY IPHONE, I'M PLAYING SCRABBLE WITH MY FRIENDS, THEYA RE PROBABLY WAITING FOR ME TO MAKE A WORD!!!! (LOL, i know) i would say the worst part was that i felt kind of nauseated coming out of the anesthesia, but it wasn't that bad. i went home around 4 and after that i was totally fine! i guess most people fall asleep when they get home, but i wasn't even tired. i didn't go to sleep until around 3am, and i'm not in any pain at all!!!! i'm a little swollen, but that's about it. i hate sitting around doing nothing, so after i had my post-op appointment today, my mom and i went to the mall and went into like every single store looking at all the cute clothes i'll be able to wear once i'm all healed up! sorry for no pictures, but hopefully sometime soon!!! :) i hope this helps for people who are nervous/worried about getting it done! it's not that bad! seriously, by the time i got home i was eating twizzlers and m&ms lol (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 14th, 2009
breastreduction [ fannyhyeta ]	9:44p	Surgery tomorrow! When I was flying home for Christmas break today and the plane landed though, I gained one more reason I need this surgery: it is very uncomfortable to have a strange man next to you staring at your breasts bouncing around while the plane lands. but tomorrow I have my surgery! It's at 7:45 am; I have to show up at 6:30 to get marked and everything.. Am I questioning myself at all? Absolutely. I go back and forth. "My back hurts, my boobs are too big, they need to go..." to "am I really, voluntarily, getting myself cut open???" I know it's supposed to be a routine procedure, but I am a little bit nervous.. I'm trying not to be, but it's hard. Hopefully by this time tomorrow I'll be done with the surgery, drugged up on Percocet, and happy with my decision. It's not that I don't want my chest gone, because I do, no doubt about it. It's that the idea of getting cut up is scary. Anyways, keep me in your prayers, and good luck to everyone else! Current Mood: anxious (8 Comments |Comment on this)