On October 30, I went into the hospital at 5:30 AM with my best friend in tow, for reconstruction surgery #5.
Hands down, my boobs are tired of surgeries.
After the MRSA infection swelled up my left "foob" with infection and my body had to fight it off for several weeks with the help of a regimen of two different antibiotics, 6 doses per day, for WEEKS... the infected foob was visibly larger than the other one. When the infection finally cleared, the infected one dropped. If it was minor and not very visible, that would be fine, but this was not. Another surgery was needed to fix it. Again.
I have also been having this shooting pain under the right breast. There is a little bumpy spot that feels like maybe a stitch under the surface and if I move my arm upright (like when I'm swimming), it shoots pains up and down my body. I brought it up in office visits.. more than once... my doctor basically ignored me.
The morning of this surgery, I first saw the fellow working with my plastic surgeon. I hadn't met this woman before. I mentioned the pain under the right side - she looked at it and made a note on the surgical consent.
My regular plastic surgeon came in. I mentioned it to him. He mentioned port removal... I've asked him to remove my port three times now. Three times, it hasn't happened. This time I just brushed over it and he said "you would need your oncologist's approval" and I was like "umm.." because it was discussed MONTHS ago when my oncologist said I could have it removed now.
I'm tired of feeling like a number with these doctors. If people feel like a number or a statistic, YOU HAVE TOO MANY PATIENTS.
*sigh*
After surgery, I woke up in major pain. The pain rivaled that first night after mastectomy... and no one understands why. Why was a simple "repair" so painful?
MRSA recovery.
Scar Tissue.
5 surgeries on one site...
You name it, those things cause excess pain. Combine them and the pain is excruciating.
Here in Kentucky, we are riddled with opioid addictions and overdoses. When someone claims pain, doctors look at them like they must be some kind of pill-seeking addicts wanting a fix.
I have never finished a bottle of pain medicine. Never. Not even after having my breasts cut off my body and diving into chemotherapy while still healing... not when I was thrown from a horse and took out a fence with my back... nope. I'm terrified of addiction and I take as small amount of addictive medications as possible.
Laying in surgery recovery on Tuesday and having doctors react to me like I was lying when I said I was in intense pain was a horrible feeling. I started crying. Emotions ran high and I was in SO MUCH PAIN.
They still don't believe me. I sit with my ice pack on the surgical sites, hoping for relief. I'm losing faith in medical professionals. I just hope this is the last surgery.
Hands down, my boobs are tired of surgeries.
After the MRSA infection swelled up my left "foob" with infection and my body had to fight it off for several weeks with the help of a regimen of two different antibiotics, 6 doses per day, for WEEKS... the infected foob was visibly larger than the other one. When the infection finally cleared, the infected one dropped. If it was minor and not very visible, that would be fine, but this was not. Another surgery was needed to fix it. Again.
I have also been having this shooting pain under the right breast. There is a little bumpy spot that feels like maybe a stitch under the surface and if I move my arm upright (like when I'm swimming), it shoots pains up and down my body. I brought it up in office visits.. more than once... my doctor basically ignored me.
The morning of this surgery, I first saw the fellow working with my plastic surgeon. I hadn't met this woman before. I mentioned the pain under the right side - she looked at it and made a note on the surgical consent.
My regular plastic surgeon came in. I mentioned it to him. He mentioned port removal... I've asked him to remove my port three times now. Three times, it hasn't happened. This time I just brushed over it and he said "you would need your oncologist's approval" and I was like "umm.." because it was discussed MONTHS ago when my oncologist said I could have it removed now.
I'm tired of feeling like a number with these doctors. If people feel like a number or a statistic, YOU HAVE TOO MANY PATIENTS.
*sigh*
MRSA recovery.
Scar Tissue.
5 surgeries on one site...
You name it, those things cause excess pain. Combine them and the pain is excruciating.
Here in Kentucky, we are riddled with opioid addictions and overdoses. When someone claims pain, doctors look at them like they must be some kind of pill-seeking addicts wanting a fix.
I have never finished a bottle of pain medicine. Never. Not even after having my breasts cut off my body and diving into chemotherapy while still healing... not when I was thrown from a horse and took out a fence with my back... nope. I'm terrified of addiction and I take as small amount of addictive medications as possible.
Laying in surgery recovery on Tuesday and having doctors react to me like I was lying when I said I was in intense pain was a horrible feeling. I started crying. Emotions ran high and I was in SO MUCH PAIN.
They still don't believe me. I sit with my ice pack on the surgical sites, hoping for relief. I'm losing faith in medical professionals. I just hope this is the last surgery.