I was having like skin irritation from the tightness that i wasnt aware of until my mom was helping me change the drain site band aids, and I thought “wait someone mentioned shoving tea towels up there and I need something smoother… aha!” And it’s been so much comfier tbh
Taken before my like 3rd shower after surgery (I was allowed to take one at 72 hr PO). Idk why the lighting is off for one of these specifically lol. The doc told me I’m healing well and I’m so excited!! Still dealing with some swelling, but I don’t think it‘s any concerning amount, just annoying 😩
planning to make a longer post eventually about my experiences, but if anyone has any questions about the process w Dr Ramineni feel free to ask :]
Im just shy of 10 days PO. I live with my very supportive family bc of finances etc, and they’re taking care of me while I’m recovering, but both of my parents have full time jobs and my dad also got sick in the last few days. They're both mental health professionals so it’s not like we don’t talk this stuff out usually, but I just kind of feel like a broken record when I say I‘m sorry for the trouble or I’m really thankful for what theyre doing, and they assure me theyre glad to do it. But one of the big things is that because I work from home normally, I’m in charge of a lot of the perpetual chores (like dishes, animal care, sometimes grocery runs, etc). so, without my being able to do those things it really REALLY shows how hard it is on the household for me to be down for the count. Everyone’s so exhausted at the end of the day that the things just don’t get done.
i feel like daily I have to talk myself out of finding a way to justify doing chores that sincerely I shouldnt right now (all of them arm movement based + weight based, and as a bonus I’m just BARELY too short to even properly reach across the sink even if I did try to get back into dishes)
i do think I’d like to have a talk with them about it at some point but bringing that up feels bad too, with so little extra time in the day to get anything done and with my dad being sick. I already have to remind my mom and my sibling about certain requests I make for food and stuff because of adhd stuff too.
i can’t stress enough how supportive and affirming they are, and that the time deficit due to basically perpetual financial hardship isn’t a moral failing on anybody’s part, it’s just a bunch of factors that exist and that my surgery-weakened brain is feeling particularly fragile and self conscious about having Needs despite, I guess.
i don’t know. To anyone who’s read this far, I know things will turn out fine it’s just really hard right now. If you ever felt like this did you just knuckle down and wait til you got through it to feel normal again, or was there any coping mechanism you found helped you?
(about 10 days post op btw) I could NOT figure out how to phrase this question lmao — so the situation is that yeah the skin on my torso that my boobs used to cover is just not used to being exposed, and now it’s peeling in places. Doesn’t hurt or anything, but if there’s a way to get that skin to at least the same baseline as the skin around it I’d love to know!
would it be lotions? Creams? Will it just pick up the slack over time naturally? Thanks!