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Experience with suction/negative pressure dressings
So last Thursday I had a bilateral "Goldilocks" mastectomy - it's Tuesday now, so today is the fifth day post-op. I had three nights in hospital and was discharged on Sunday, and every day has fe...
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FLClover said:I understand your worry though because it’s different when we’re out of it and see things in hindsight, but a whole different ball game when we’re in the midst of it and it’s fresh. It is scary and we worry about every little thing, and we need reassurance that everything is going the best it can. Sometimes we’re too consumed by fear to be able to see clearly and it’s also new for us so we don’t know what’s what.
I have so little experience of surgery - I had one op when I was in my early 20s and broke my leg, and that was it for 30 years until all this came along ('all this' is also an excision in August which went almost perfectly). So everything is pretty unfamiliar - I'm rapidly recalibrating my expectations for myself and how much energy I can reasonably expect my body to have each day, how long dressings should be on, how fast bruising should heal, all that. I will say, I'm very happy with how much bruising has cleared up - one side of me looked like I'd been kicked by a horse, but that's almost all gone.
Thank you :)