Surgery #2 is Done!

I went in for outpatient surgery yesterday. They removed my breast expanders from under my muscle and put in gel implants. Then they took fat from my stomach and grafted it around the implants to make them look more realistic. I am sooo bruised. I'm wearing a compression garment around my stomach right now to try and minimize swelling and bruising. I'm not sure how long I have to wear it but it is protecting my tummy from being kicked by one of my children haha. I don't know how people can get lipo for fun, that hecka hurts! Lol. I am making a follow up appt for Monday today and hopefully he can shine some light on how long it will take to heal. My foobs (fake boobs lol) are finally not as hard as rocks! I would hurt rylie or AJ when I would hug them so having normal foobs again is so great! I am in some pain right now which is why I have been up since 4am, thank goodness for chick flicks! :) I have at least 1 more, possibly 2 more surgeries until my reconstruction is complete. They have to use more fat to graft and graft some skin from my stomach but I might wait a while until I don't have to carry Audrey because I will be down for quite a while like my first surgery and right now that would be way too hard. But I am getting there slowly but surely! I didn't have to get drains this time, almost but he decided against it. I was bleeding a lot more then the average person. He asked AJ if I took ibuprofen this week (which I had not) I just bled for some reason and bruised insanely a lot! But if you just barely touch me, I immediately bruise like a peach! (so there is no surprise that happened.) It was 3 months to the day since this all first started which was actually pretty quick! Some women took 3 to 4 months in fills alone, not including the wait time for 6 weeks I did before I got my 2nd surgery. I just had him fill me 120ccs in each side each time to get it over with. The last fill was 180ccs and I was in a lot of pain for at least 3 days but it was worth it to get it done quicker! The implants that he put in we're 750ccs. To those of you who understand sizes you might think that is huge. For women who get implants that large look like Heidi Montag (she is 700ccs) but her implants were under her existing breast tissue and fat, I don't have any. My implants are under my muscle otherwise they would just fall out if they were on top of my muscle like women who just have regular implants. So basically, since I don't have fat on top, my 750ccs are not ginormous, they are big but fit my frame really well since I am 5'9". My plastic surgeon placed them in me and moved the table while I was in surgery upward so he could decide which ones look best on me. It's crazy how much surgery has changed and how it's advanced! He is a wonderful surgeon with awesome beside manor! If anyone in Reno ever needs an amazing plastic surgeon, please ask me and I will give you his info! Rylie asked me yesterday before surgery why I do this. I told her that my boobs were going to make me sick so they had to get rid of them. AJ explained that they made her grandma Lori sick which is why she is in the sky in heaven and we didn't want mommy leaving so the doctors are fixing me. She is one smart 3 year old who actually grasps what we are saying, maybe not completely but she did agree that I needed to let the doctors fix me because she doesn't want me to leave her. That all reminded me why I'm going trough this pain, for my babies! All in all the surgery went well and I'm doing good so far. I just took some pain meds so I'm falling asleep while writing this so I better go! I just wanted to make sure everyone was in the loop because with all this going on, I didn't get to text or call everyone. AJ did that for me so I didn't know who he contacted haha. Oh well he tried and has been awesome through this recent surgery. Him and my dad too me to sushi last night on the way home from my surgery. I almost fell asleep in my soy sauce but AJ held on to me. He also fed me when my arms hurt too much... Now that's love! :) I think what makes all this easier for me is the amazing support system I have. Great friends and family and that makes me a very lucky girl. Thank you to all of you wonderful people in my life, I appreciate the kind words etc more then you all could know!