I have been home for over a week now. Am feeling good, but also starting to feel lots of numbness in chest/abdominal area. From everything I have learned this is normal, but it just feels funky and weird. Numbness, I have learned, is not something you can actually convey to someone else with words. People will associate it with novacaine, or tingly feet (pins and needles) or an old scar, but really none of that fits this. Just odd. My assumption is that some of this will dissipate and the rest I will become my new normal. Right now it isn't my new normal and it's rather uncomfortable when clothing touches it. Next week I plan to post each day on some of the ways my life is different now, almost 2 weeks after surgery. I also plan to include more real live photos to track my healing progress (no pictures of incisions or anything awkward so don't worry). Have a nice weekend.
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Hi! On my 6 week recovery update blog post I wrote:
"As of Tuesday I’ll be six weeks post-op and I just realized that the ultra-sensitivity that I was feeling on my breasts has mostly faded. As much as this particular problem was bothering me, it’s weird to me that I didn’t exactly notice when it first went away!"
So just know that hyper-sensitivity that you are experiencing will fade away - your nerves are in full on healing mode right now, they should settle down soon..
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