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Tammy's Story

I am 37 years old and the mom of 3 teen children, all of whom I breast fed. I was always small going through school and could never wear the type of clothes I wanted to wear. After breast feeding three babies I dried up to be even smaller. So at 37 I decided to do something special for myself.

I was going to get a breast augmentation. I made the appointment with a plastic surgeon. His staff is very professional to make you feel at ease about something you may be self conscience about. They treated me as if they had known me for years. On my first appointment I was told to bring different size bras that I might like to be. So I did C's and D's. They put my husband and I in a room and gave us several different size implants to try on play with to see where we wanted to be. I decided on 425 CC round under the muscle.

My surgeon came in examined and measured my chest wall and breast and said that would work and would make me around full C and small D. He explained the surgery and the recovery and answered all my questions. (I took a list of them.) I wanted this so bad but was very scared until I left this appointment. Leaving I felt very sure, safe and excited.

I arrived on the morning of the surgery butterflies in stomach, my husband got to come back and stay with me until time to go to the O.R. We kissed good bye and off I was to surgery. The anesthesiologist explained to me what she would be doing and we began.

After the surgery I don't really remember a lot until we were almost home and I live an hour away. When we got home my husband helped me into the recliner and told me things went great and he had pain pills if I needed them. I just wanted to sleep. Around 4 hours later I awoke asking for a pain pill, feeling sore and aching. I slept through the nite. The next morn he got me up and helped me take a shower. My first view of the new girls!! There were still tape across my incisions and some bruising. They were still high but wow I was a D cup for sure.

The shower felt great and back on with the sports bra. The recliner was my home for the day because I was sore and stiff but not too much pain. No more pain pills all day. The next morning I had a family reunion to go to that people had flown in from all over, so I didn't want to miss, so I went and no one even noticed except my mom said you are moving a little funny. I told her I had slept funny and had a stiff back. (sry mom.) I told no one about the surgery except my daughters and husband.

In the days to follow I got my strength back in my arms and it wasn't too long that the girls started to drop. I has been 13 months now since my surgery and I have no regrets. It has been everything I imagined and I can now wear all the cute clothes that I have always wanted to wear.

So expect 3 days to really feel good and a couple of weeks before you can sleep on your side. But all in all I would recommend it to anyone longing for it like I was.

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