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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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<\/a> and sign up for the BFAR info list<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}