Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

I’m sure you’re all dying to know how my boob’s doing. For those playing at home, I had a biopsy in 9/02, then a cleanup surgery in 10/02, then have been battling the wound since.

Last week it was completely closed and relatively pain-free. Tonight it’s opening back up and hurts like hell. I’m just a wee bit bummed, but will save the foulest language for my pillow, since it doesn’t care how many times I holler the F word at it. My doctor, on the other hand, probably would mind… but I’ll call him tomorrow and try to be coherent.

3/10/03 will mark the six month anniversary of the first surgery. I’ve been fighting this for damn near half a year. I can’t help thinking that it’s my own fault it’s happening; if I hadn’t been so dumb and gotten the worthless breast reduction, I might actually have some blood flow (and feeling, and function) and I wouldn’t have a damned wound for half a year that should have been healed up in under a month.

Kids, please take it from Auntie Addlepated. Think long and hard before getting a reduction. Or implants. On the BFAR (breast-feeding after reduction) mailing list, the stories of heartache outweigh the stories of people who are happy with their surgery by about 3 to 1. If you’re considering a reduction, go to the BFAR webpage and sign up for the BFAR info list and talk to women who have actually had the surgery. Talk to a lot of them – do not form your opinion based on what just one person tells you. I wish I had. And if you have reduction questions, don’t be shy – feel welcome to ask me.

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