Coughing Up Blood.

Okay, so today @ my follow-up appointment, I found out what the breathing trouble I had was caused by: negative pressure pulminary edema.  That's basically the medical term for a person's lungs being flooded with fluid.  They could actually hear it gurgling when they listened to me.  So could my mother, but I hadn't been awake enough yesterday before posting to talk to her about it. 

So I left with oxygen last night.  This afternoon, after thinking that that was mostly behind me, I coughed up  more blood again this afternoon.  (That is the main symptom of negative pressure pulminary edema.)  So I still have fluid in my lungs.  So I'm going to sleep in the recliner at mom's next door again tonight so I can sleep with the oxygen again. 

I got my bandages removed today.  My tummy is super flat compared to what it used to be.  My boobs are super big and super high.  In fact, I have a binder around the top of them to push them down because they keep trying to float up or whatever it is that they do.  So I have to press down on the tops of them a few times a day to keep them down.  I swear they'd be holding my chin up right now if not for this binder holding them down.  They are REALLY swollen.  In fact, they are the most swollen part of me.  They are hard with puffy.  My mom's are just now going down though and she's a week and a day out - so I expect mine to take about a week and a day too. 

Oh well.

So sorry I didn't get a chance to call and check on you yesterday, I was super busy. Hope every day is better than the day before!

Keep  us in the loop as to how you are doing!

Very gentle hugs

It's okay.  One of the good things about all this is that I have time to come on here! 

I woke up with a migraine this morning which made me nausiated.  They give you phenregan (I know I'm butchering the spelling on that, but y'all get the idea.) to avoid nausia because you DO NOT want to throw up after these procedures.  All those stomach muscles contracting like that... I really almost want to cry thinking about it.  But I haven't had trouble with nausia until I woke up with this migraine.

BUT, thankfully I have vicoden on hand from this surgery, so I ate one with breakfast and sat very still until my head started to feel better.  So I'm fine now.

My super swollen breasts are what hurt now just because they are so swollen.  OUCH! 

I had a gas feeling last night that bloated me up and couldn't expel it.  But now I don't know whether or not that was really gas or just a bloat that felt like gas - because I don't remember ever expelling it but the feeling is gone this morning.  The menstral cramp feeling is gone this morning too.  I still have the sensation like something is tearing inside me every once in a while.  I thought all that was weird until I posted about on the plastic surgery board on here and others chimed in that that was all normal. 

I haven't coughed up any blood today and no more last night.  I still can't believe I had NPPE.  My research shows that only 1/2 of a 10th of a percent of people have it.  There is no common thread that makes people more at risk for it - although it is most likely to occur in healthy men in their 20s - 30s.  It can be caused by various things (not just anesthesia from surgery) like heart failure, trauma or even swimming.  Who knew?!?!? 

Oh well.  I'm done with surgeries anyway.  I won't be able to afford to get my inner thighs done for years and by then I probably won't care enough to have it done.  BUT... I am going to look SOOOO smokin' hot when I heal from this (if I do say so myself). 

I'll post before and after pics as soon as I can!

Wen

the boobies will settle in soon and all will be good. Of course they are high or they would settle and be too low. I remember those days. I had a small in office re-lift in Nov of 08 after my orig implant/lift in 07. They had settled lower than we wanted so my dr perked em back up.

they will be hard and puffy and you will feel like you have a major life jacket on. Its all good tho. I did have a hard time driving as I had boobs on the side and the steering wheel was hard to turn...lol.....the side boobs were just swelling and it went away. I had a hard time being flat so I slept up right or on a wedge pillow. I am a tummy sleeper.....after about 3-4 mos I was able to be flat but it took a yr to get on my tummy and not feel like a teeter totter.

good luck with the whole thing and have a safe recovery and feel better

Tammy