Our Gifts Are Emergent (Monthly Solo)

This is the second surgery, two out of three procedures.

And each surgery of this breast cancer journey gets far less intense from what I understand.

So this is the surgery in which my expanders come out and I get implants and and lipo, which still gives me a case of the giggles in every conceivable way.

So I have these saline bags in, which are not that bad.

I've heard from friends that they can be really uncomfortable and irritating.

Mine have been fine.

I think it's because I have done so much energy work.

I really took time to recover.

I was a very good patient.

Would you expect anything less for me? And I did lymphatic massage.

I have all of the resources that I used, including sort of the pillows, et cetera, up on eliselunan.com. I'll include that in the show notes as well.

If you know anyone who's going through this process, maybe it will help.

But I really, I think the lymphatic massage in particular, ensured that I was lucky I didn't develop any scar tissue.

I think that's what can be really, really uncomfortable.

So or I don't have any perceptible scar tissue.

So in this next stage, I'm expanded, I'm sort of the size, I guess, closely the size that I was before this all happened.

Although it's Different profile, I'm not going to lie, guys.

But now I will get the expanders, which again, were put in to stretch out my skin, because I lost a lot of skin in addition to all my tissue.

And they will put in implants.

And And because I don't have, you know, when you get breast reconstruction, typically the implant is going underneath your existing breast tissue.

So it's shielded from sort of full view by the texture of your own flesh.

So with reconstruction through mastectomy, you don't have anything.

So it can be sort of bumpy and rippled.

And dented, I guess, which sounds again, I'll talk about this in a minute, but it hasn't been that bad.

I don't I don't know.