Surgery Day: 0630h I arrived to the theatre (the same theatre I had my breast augmentation), I was first up that morning and I was excited. The nurse checked me in then I met with my anesthetist followed by my surgeon. This is where he marks me with his colour markers then takes before photos. Now we’re ready to rock and roll so to speak. I followed the nurse into theatre and placed myself onto the table ready to get prepped. Bring on all the happy drugs. LOL!! They removed 4.5 litres body fat, now that’s a lot of junk of this trunk wouldn’t you agree. Next thing I knew I was in recovery and positively freezing unlike everyone else who lived in Melbourne. It was a sweltering 46°that day. Me on the other hand had a Lycra garment, compression garment, tracksuit pants, tracksuit jacket, a blanket and two heaters on me so finally I was nice and toasty. By 1330h I was being wheeled out to the undercover car park and bought home to rest for the duration of the day. As the anesthetic and suppositories wore off the discomfort and pain become apparent, all tolerable. I have multiple incisions all over my body and all very small, smaller than keyhole surgery. They don’t require stitches so it allows the excess fluid to leak out into the padding I have over them. We were supplied with additional padding as it became required. I spent most of the afternoon just resting in bed and when I woke I would get up and walk around to help with circulation. I ate a normal dinner then straight back to bed.
Day 1: Woke up this morning trying to remember the number plate of the truck had hit me. Due to the heat I’m just getting around in the Lycra garment and the compression garment, not attractive as you can see by my photos by any means and all my drapes are closed. My skins have nothing on these, they are so fitting which is what they’re designed to do. Getting in and out of bed requires assistance, it’s not something I can do myself yet. Everything hurts and movement is limited due to the garments I have to wear but I’ll get used to it. Today I go back to The Ashley Centre for my first dressing change by my nurse. You won’t believe what they use for padding, nappies and sanitary pads. I kid you not, I had winnie the poo and tiger on each elbow. Most of my leaking has already slowed down so my padding is less than when I walked in and a little more comfortable too. I also got the thumbs up to start taking my BCAAs, l-glutamine and vitamin c. This will also help along with the medications I’ve been provided with.
Day 2: Things are improving today. I removed winnie and tigger, there was no leakage from my arm incisions so they came off. I’m also getting around a little bit bitter which is great because we went back to the Ashley Centre. I had Fraxel Laser for my full face which required numbing cream and a pethidine injection. The staff there think I’m a glutton for punishment and I’m starting to think they’re right. LOL!! The first pass of the laser was okay but the second pass certainly got my attention. Nothing ice and moisturiser won’t fix. This afternoon I have greater movement and am getting up and down from chairs by myself and in and out of bed by myself. The discomfort and pain is decreasing but there’s a whole lot of sensations happening due to the damaged nerve endings. All normal apparently so I just need to get used to it, that’s all. All things considered I’m feeling pretty good at the moment.
Well that definitely gets you up to speed with everything. Thank you for all your well wishes, I really appreciated them and it’s nice to know I have friends who don’t judge me. I’ll be back tomorrow to post Day 3.
