Tag: breast reconstruction
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Free Lipo Should Not Be This Complicated
Free Lipo Should Not Be This Complicated 🌼 Date: Thursday, August 27, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Plastic surgery decisions and too many what-ifs 💖 Status: No more fills 🤔 Outlook: Apparently even free lipo comes with a decision tree Today I had an appointment with my plastic surgeon. We talked about expectations for my exchange surgery.…
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Coconut Water, Dr. Pepper, and Gummy Bears
Coconut Water, Dr. Pepper, and Gummy Bears 🌼 Date: Thursday, August 6, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Plastics appointment and boob math 💖 Status: Lefty got 35 more cc’s 😊 Outlook: Holding pattern, with possible gummy bears on the horizon Today was another trip to plastics. And maybe my last one for a while. Maybe. Cancerland does…
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Lefty Got a Pep Talk
Lefty Got a Pep Talk 🌼 Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Hopeful, surprised, and cautiously feeling myself up 💗 Status: Plastics appointment with an unexpected fill 🥰 Outlook: For the first time in a long time, I feel a little more like me Today I had a plastics appointment, and the unexpected happened.…
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The Bra Trying-On Safari
The Bra Trying-On Safari 🌼 Date: Saturday, July 25, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Curious, awkward, and mildly attacked by underwire 💝 Status: Scientific boob-sizing mission 😉 Outlook: No bra was purchased, but many questions were collected Today we went bra shopping. Well, not really shopping. Shopping implies I intended to buy a bra. And let’s be…
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515 on Both Sides and Still Not Even
515 on Both Sides and Still Not Even 🌼 Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Confused, questioning, and slightly lopsided 💖 Status: Plastics appointment day 😉 Outlook: The math is mathing, but the boobs are not boobing Today I had a plastics appointment, and we are officially at 515cc on both sides. Yes. Both…
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PSA: This Is Not a Free Boob Job
PSA: This Is Not a Free Boob Job 🌼 Date: Friday, July 17, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Snarky, spicy, and slightly over the bullshit 💖 Status: Issuing a public service announcement 😖 Outlook: Cancer may get some battles, but it does not get the war PSA: This is not a free boob job. Let me say…
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Trick or Treat, What Size Did I Get?
Trick or Treat, What Size Did I Get? 🌼 Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Hopeful, confused, and mildly betrayed by bra cups 💖 Status: Another plastics appointment, another fill 😖 Outlook: Cancer messes with your mind, but it does not get to win the war Today was my weekly plastics appointment. Also known…
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Mastectomy and Feeling Sexy
Mastectomy and Feeling Sexy 🌼 Date: Friday, July 10, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Honest, tender, and a little bruised ❤️🩹 Status: Learning this new body 🤕 Outlook: Healing is not just skin deep One thing I have discovered during this waiting-while-healing period is that mastectomy and feeling sexy are like oil and water. They do not…
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Where Do the Milk Ducts Go?
Where Do the Milk Ducts Go? 🌼 Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2026 ⚡ Energy: Curious, slightly horrified, and fully down the rabbit hole ❤️ Status: Google MD had questions 🧐 Outlook: Apparently my milk ducts went to pathology You know how I like to go down rabbit holes on the world wide web? Well, after…
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To Nip or Not to Nip
To Nip or Not to Nip 🌼 Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2026⚡ Energy: Hopeful, relieved, and freshly inflated💖 Status: Fill Day success🥰 Outlook: The deluxe optical illusion package has been selected Today was the day. Back to plastics with the highest of hopes. All of my bloodwork results were in, my neutrophils had finally decided…
