bondgirl_1245’s BodyBlog

uggg….im not THAT patient, but im learning to be.  when i want results, i want them fast and work hard for it.  but my healing needs time, patience and me sitting STILL, which is hard to do for a busy body like me.  i over did it saturday.  we went to the store, cooked outside and i was busily tidying the house and i paid the next morning when i saw my blood drains were right under the 25 mark.  the doc wants them to be less than 15 (im assuming mililiters?) within 24 hours.  i did much better today.  i was still most of the day, church, my sunday school class (of first graders - well as still as i could be) and I took a nap when we go home.  woke up around 6:30 pm and i did tidy up a little to my husband’s dissaproving glances, but now im done and will promise not to move anymore.  he taped my arms up yesterday and that actually helped and felt good.  hmmmmmm.  anywayz.  going to try that again tonight and ice down my chest to help the swelling.  if it werent for the drains, though, doc said that the desired textured surface of the implant would become smooth (not good) because the fluid would not be able to escape and would create a smooth crystaline surface which may later cause capsular contraction around the implant - again not good.  Plus, there would be alot more bruising and swelling and so far, im doing pretty good in that department.  he said 8 days is average for the drains and since he went under the fascia and over the muscle the surgery certainly bothered some tiny blood vessles (to say the least) and what im "draining" is normal.  but still…..can i say "ugggggg".  yeah, i think i can.

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