Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Surgery update

Just a quick post to share my latest news. I had the quickest and least painful surgery yesterday afternoon. They replaced my expander implants with my official permanent implants and cleaned things up a bit, took out extra skin and evened everything up. I am very happy with the results. It took about 2 hours and I am feeling great. I don't need to layer pain meds and didn't need any drains!
Hope everyone had a happy Christmas!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Expanders implants are almost done!

Expander implants were inserted during my last surgery and the doctor has been injecting saline into them about once a week. The muscles are stretched out to make room for my permanent implants. It is a sore and very long process. One that I am happy to say will be over soon! I will have the expanders switched out on Dec 29th. One last surgery before the end of the year to take advantage of meeting my out of pocket deductible! My New Year's Eve will be spent recovering from surgery but it's totally worth it!
In other news.... my hair is growing crazier and curlier every day! I would love to chemically straighten it and get extensions, but that seems soooo high maintenance :) I even thought about shaving it again, but last winter was so cold with no hair. So I will wait it out and enjoy a new look for a while. It's really not that bad, kind of cute on some days. People seem to like it too, which leads me to the next issue with the hair. What I do not enjoy is the constant need for other people to just walk up and run their hands through my hair. Not only is it rude to just go straight up to people and rub them, but it frizzes out my hair, it is terrible and I am very over it. Once attacked I have to go the rest of the day with a half fro where all of the gel was broken up and then flakes, gross!!! So if you see me and have an overwhelming desire to feel my hair, just ask, I understand I am hard to resist! he he he! I will let you feel the back, where it won't turn into the biggest fro I have ever seen! And in return, I promise not to punch you in the nose, I think its a fair trade.