I can’t believe people get implants because they want them. I can’t remember ever feeling anything so painful.  I feel like I’ve been hit in the chest with a baseball bat.  I may not have gone this route if I’da known the pain it would cause.

When I woke up from surgery yesterday, I had 3 drains, the leg things for circulation and a catheter.  I wasn’t able to get out of bed till yesterday.  I did decide on the painkillers this time because the tylonol just wasn’t cutting  it.  As it is, the painkillers just take the edge off.  I am sleeping off and on.  Not a full night but don’t expect that for a while.

I will need 2 more surgeries.  They did not put the expander in this time because that side hadn’t healed enough.  OMG but the next surgeries better not be this painful.  I see the surgeon again on Friday but she doesn’t think the results will be back from the lymph nodes she removed from my right side this time.  I am exhausted most of the time, and just plain tired and in pain the rest, but hey, I’m getting rid of the cancer!