The waiting time is really long.
After consulting with the breast surgeon and plastic surgery professor,
the surgery was decided to be two months after the first visit.
It is a simultaneous mastectomy and reconstruction surgery that removes all breast tissue except the nipples and inserts implants at the same time.
You can choose the size slightly +- from the original breast size, but I roughly thought of it as similar but a little bigger.
My original breast size was about a B cup,
and the implant size seems to be 300cc?
The hospital I went to didn't allow me to choose the brand,
and only handled implants from MT,
but
a friend who knows a lot about implants and is familiar with them said they were good,
so I was reassured.
I emptied my mind as much as possible, went on a trip,
and leveled up Pokemon Go, which I started playing on recommendation,
and waited for a month and a half.
(In the meantime, the tumor grew bigger and became almost as big as a Kyoho grape.)
I was admitted the day before the surgery, got an allergy test,
had my armpits shaved, measured and marked the surgery site,
and checked the size of the implant through a simulation,
and signed after hearing a detailed explanation of the surgery.
Before fasting after midnight,
I ate BBQ chicken as my last meal...
It was the best chicken in my life haha
The day of the long-awaited surgery!!
It was supposed to be my second surgery, but the first surgery
was canceled,
so I was dragged away early in the morning while lying on a gurney.
(I had this happen when my mom had surgery, and I wondered if they were intentionally trying to make me not freak out lol)
It was the biggest surgery I've ever had,
but it was surprisingly calm. I didn't even cry.
I guess it's because the order was changed...
I didn't know because I refrained from searching, but before the surgery,
they inject a drug around the nipple
areola to make it look better.
I found out later that there were a lot of reviews saying that it hurt,
so the person who was doing it said it didn't hurt that much,
so?
I told them I didn't know because I didn't look it up,
and they said it was good. They said that a lot of people come in scared in advance...
Anyway, areola injections don't hurt that much!
I was dragged onto the bed and taken to the operating room.
I think if you're not a child or elderly, you go in alone.
Before going into the operating room, there is a surgical waiting room
where you put on a sanitary cap, get an injection, and wait.
I think I waited for about thirty minutes because it took a while for my surgery to be ready.
This is when time really didn't pass.TT
A person who seemed to be the operating surgeon came
and gave me a brief briefing again
and dragged me to the operating room.
(The attending professors seem to come here every now and then to give instructions. Maybe because they are so busy)
I went over to the operating bed and spread my arms like this
and the doctors and nurses told me to do this and that
and then they put on the anesthesia mask right away lol
At that moment, I was overcome with fear
Please don't hurt me!!
Yes, I will make it don't hurt me~ I don't remember anything after that.
I think it was as much time as if I had had a good night's sleep?
When I opened my eyes, I was in the waiting room after the surgery.
