I saw plastics today (YAY) after having a 3 week break due to my surgeon being out of town and the nurse wanting me to have him see my progress before deciding on a final volume. So my real volume when my real implants are in will be somewhere between the last two fills. Starting with this fill everything is over fill. So I got 60 on the left side (smaller side from my bent ribcage) and 40 on the right which brings my grand totals to 335/305. So I will have one more fill and hopefully do another 50/40 which should even the last little bit out and get me big enough to stretch the skin enough for the real implants.
I was able to nail down a little more for a surgical time frame. If I get the next fill by the end of the month then surgery would be Aprilish. He's unsure if we will do hyperbaric before, after, both, or neither... he seems to think that my skin is much better now and that with the technique he is going to use that I may not need it as long as I eat a ton of meat protein before then! So we'll see. He thinks that it will just be day surgery as well!
So we'll see how I feel tomorrow and if I want to do a fill next week or the week after. I am pretty sore from this one so may wait a little longer than a week but we'll see.
Its nice to have at least a sort of tentative plan for when things will happen so I can start planning my life and not live in limbo land.
So once again I move forward and feel really good about this whole decision and am SO glad that I was given the gift of a choice.
Such a great update! I'm glad you have a tentative timeline. I am glad that the surgery will tentatively be on the early end of the initial proposed timeframe, but I hate that I'll have been gone from beginning to end in the sense that I'm of no use at all. Obviously that's NOT the important part here, I just wish I was there. Most importantly, I am SO glad things are going so well now after such a rough start! Love the update! Your little guy is a hoot!
ReplyDeleteSo glad you had a choice too--I love your upbeat attitude about everything. Happy you have an end insight too.
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