Aaargh..

[undergroundpanther]

Hey ya'll Here's what I have been up to..

I went to my plastic surgeon yesterday and got the last part of my chest reconstruction started. Lipo Dissolve shots. It kills fat cells, Now, before you say let me take a bath in it...

My sister had a meeting but she was my only ride up there.. I was up at 5 am.. We drove an for 45 minutes I got out and I sat in a coffee shop for 2 hours until 8 am. Than I walked over to my doctors office,waited some more.
It all began with my doc looking at my chest .Than she got a green sharpie and circled areas where fat was deposited .Leftover boob fat from my chest reconstruction surgery, than she started making around 30 little dots in each circled area with a black sharpie pen . Into the surgery area I went . I laid on the table and with an air gun needle thing she injected me at every dot.It took forever.

And it hurt. Like a tattoo in slow motion.But the worst was yet to come. I got up,and already my chest was inflamed and was aching..
She told me NO anti inflammitories, no tylenol,aspirin or the like. I put my binders back on, popped an anti nausea pill. and called a cab. I waited at Wegmans from around 11:00 to around 4 pm. Bored to tears itching and hurting drawing and staring.. Because being in the suburbs unable to drive and the insanity of getting help from MA to go out of county is insane..

By time I got home I was on fire. I crashed.. I got up, I looked at my nearly purple armpit because my binder had shifted and it was purple ,swollen and beyond inflamed... Sleep did not come easy for all that stinging,itching,burning yeeeow! Took one of my pain pills for my back,one that just kills pain. However I was still up and down all night.

I got to wear this stupid binder for a week, and I am already overheated.
Today I got the shits and my pee is weird .These deposits not just weird but gross. Thank Sekhmet for bathroom fans and Oust!
It doesn't hurt as bad, today tho .. I am scared to take my shower ,scared to see how awful it looks, but I am curious in that morbid way..I'll let you all know if you are curiously morbid too.

But it is worth it. My chest will be perfect.
I got to go through this process two more times....not... fun.
But when it is done I will look even better.
Now.. off to my shower.

[chknltl]

1. Just thought you should know:

:hug:
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[JuniperLea]

2. Sounds like a cocoon struggle to me...

Good luck! You are pretty damn brave!

:toast:

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. I know this is redundant at this point, but: be brave

:hug:

[1620rock]

4. Godspeed.

:hug:

[qb]

5. Congratulations... and I hope your pain is gone soon.

:hug:

[ThomCat]

6. You're an awesome person, and I hope this all goes well for you.

There seem to be a whole lot of challenges. But you're obviously up for them. :hug:

[Chovexani]

7. Positive vibes to you

I was just thinking about you today. :hug:

[Tektonik]

8. You're a brave person

GL on the surgery/procedure results. :)

[undergroundpanther]

9. thanks y'all

For the hugs and everything. Glad I have people here who understand.
Morbidly curious:
I look like a plucked chicken where the shots were done ,and below my armpits look like zombieflesh. A veritable rainbow of bruising and redness.
It's swollen to double normal size except for just below my pits,that might be three times normal size and it feels kinda like crushed up jello when I touch it ..yuck.

[TechBear_Seattle]

10. Once everything heals, you will feel different

A FTM I know marched in the Seattle Pride parade recently (I don't remember if it was last year or the year before.) He walked wearing only pants and shoes and he looked awesome (alas, he has a girlfriend; I was not the only guy giving him lustful looks that day, let me tell you.)

Patience. It took Michelangelo more than three years to carve David; using human flesh rather than marble doesn't speed up the work.