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I am 11 days post surgery now. Generally, I’m doing ok. Although it certainly is an up and down rollercoaster!

I can’t cough! Or blow my nose properly! And I really hope I don’t need to sneeze. [Look up at the ceiling light, just look up at the light!] Heaven forbid I drop something on the floor (which I’ve done many times) there’s no chance of picking that bugger up! At one point our floor was littered (a slight exaggeration 😉) with stuff I’d dropped, couldn’t bend down to pick up and had to ask one of my ‘helpers’ to go round and pick up after me. Thank goodness I’m surrounded by such amazing, understanding, loved ones. I’m so very grateful!

And funny, humorous people…..well, keep those folk away from me. Just until I’m able to show my full appreciation, roar with laughter without my sides splitting…..literally.
Actually, I’m pulling your leg there! As a side note at this point, peeps…..’I’m pulling your leg’, pray tell me, where did that phrase come from? It makes no sense. We say it, don’t we? when we tell people we are teasing them. Odd! All idioms can be kinda weird don’t ya think? I’d love to know who thought them up. 🤔 Imagine if I wrote this whole blog made up of idioms! 😝

Actually, I didn’t really mean what I said before. Please don’t keep those humorous people away from me. They’re keeping my spirits up, keeping me smiling. It’s a tonic. It’s what I need. Laughter is the best medicine, they say. I do believe that. So, I’ll just hug my bandaged up belly whilst cracking up but, hey, I’d rather that than NOT be surrounded by those delightful, sunny folk.

Anyway, what a tangent I’ve just gone on!! 🙄😂

I digress, back to the start of this blog……
It hurts to cough and all what I’ve already said but I wouldn’t change it. I wouldn’t go back on the decision to have this latest surgery. For those who are due to have it done or have friends who are having it done, do it, do it, do it! It’ll all be worth it.

Personally, I needed the fake boob implant out of my body after it had ‘told’ me in no uncertain terms that it could not stay, it had to go! It wasn’t working out well in the position it was in. Like an employee telling their employer “I’m sorry, boss, it’s just not working for me at this company. I’m not fulfilling my full potential in this role. I need a change of direction”. Or a relationship whereby one party says to the other “I want out! It’s not you, it’s me. I’m not happy. I need to leave. It may be a painful process but you’ll be better off without me, I promise”.

And so the procedure was done! With my tummy usually being the less fatty part of my body (shame they couldn’t take my ASS and THIGH fat!!!! 😂) I’d purposely built up tummy fat so it could be used to build me a ‘noob’ (new boob). And….wahey!!! My surgeon said there was just enough fat to use. (Shoving all that chocolate in my mouth was clearly a necessity!)

I was under constant surveillance in hospital, as was my ‘noob’, my new prized possession, to ensure it was keeping a temperature of at least 36 degrees C. And they also used an ultrasound device (a doppler) to make sure that the blood flow was good, the pulse in my ‘noob’ was beating regularly and healthily. Because when they built it, they also had to cut and reattach blood vessels so it’s important that the blood was flowing for it to have worked, therefore, survive and stay alive going forward.

I was unable to move my torso at first so was in one position on the bed hence ‘Cathy the catheter’ being required.

I can’t see anything of my tummy yet and its scars as it’s covered in thick bandages however it looks nice and flat now! 😁 #tummytuckachieved

I’m still walking around rather gingerly, unable to walk too far, or stand up straight up properly for that matter but things are improving every day, for sure. And I’m grateful for that. One day at a time, Abbie, one day at a time.

Looking forward to swinging from chandeliers again very soon! 😜

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