My story 20th February 2015 Started by: Sian

So I’ve woken up half way through the night feeling less drowsy so I thought I might Aswell write my story up now.

I got to fitzroy for my admission at 10am and waiting for about an hour to be seen to my room which went pretty quickly I was with my friend and just watched some tv on my phone before getting called. I was absolutely starving by this point too 🙁
Anyway as I got to my room (I had one to myself with a lovely big on suite) And got seen by the nurse and dr Singh very quickly. Went through my med history quite a few times during the day and my Singh Drew on me and took some pictures. Then I got seen my the anaesthetist who was lovely and calmed me down about the needle!
My Singh said he would see me about half 1ish as he had someone in surgery and another girl before me which I was totally happy with waiting… Making the most of my freedom to move for the last time for a whilst haha!
I watched an episode on Netflix and before I know it was called to go down (I was allowed down in my dressing gown) I went through mee hsitory again and they took me to the surgery room which was very surreal. The bed was in the middle of the room with massive lights and doctors and nurses around which made me feel nervous for the first time but everyone was lovely. I was laid down and started talking to me the anaesthetist was there straight away putting the cannula in (this was my worst fear) and omg it wasn’t anything as I expected I thought it was going to be the middle of my pain in my vein but it was at the side which didn’t hurt at all I fell asleep straight away and next thing I woke up. Was blabbering on but kept forgetting what I was saying (the anaesthetic was good! Which I could stay on it ha) it was painful moving back on to my bed when I got wheeled back and my friend was there. I got given some meds and I was in a lot of pain crying but crying only made it 10x worse. I had a drip of paracetamol and tablet to calm me down and felt a lot better. The nurses kept coming in to take my blood pressure and telling me to go to sleep which I couldn’t and when I was drifting off they’d always walk in so it was quite frustrating as I was so drowsy: I had some tea and toast by 7 (24 hours since I last ate) and it was the best thing haha. Looked at my boobs and they look huge but really high and pointy they look like cones atm! I didn’t have a v pillow for the car journey home but I was only half hour /45 mins away and I felt slightly sick but I didn’t really need a pillow as the pain was all the same by this point.
Overall it’s been a long day but can’t thank every one at the hosptial enough they were there at all times, lovely and did everything to make me feel comfortable.
I would highly recommend wearing slippers they give you when walking around as I slipped on the socks and it was so painful.
Also- girls I recommend bringing someone with you for the whole day not just to pick you up! My friend literally did everything for me from moving me, massaging my arms (they were more painful than my boobs) passing my drinks and other stuff and reassuring me constantly.

Good luck to all the pre op girls! Hope your day went as well as mine did and sorry for the longest post! X x x x x x