Nipple and Tuck

Interesting visit to the breast clinic today. Apparently my nipples have died. The surgeon nipped off my nipples and booked me in for further surgery next Monday.

He's talking about reconstructing them or tattooing them on later. But I told him from the start I didn't care about losing the nipples, it was all about reducing size, not aesthetics.

Thing is, he's more upset than I am. Apparently he's never had this problem before, even though he warns about it.

Well, he's never operated on me or my unlucky family before. If it can go wrong...

Normal Service Will Be Resumed

Sometime soon.

Very tired from recovery and working a full week.

Also have wound infection and some very nasty bits detaching themselves. You don't want to know any more.

Frame

I feel a need for neck-nuzzling.

FPS

Not sure why this sequence of photos appeals...

Folie A Deux

No matter how big he gets, that little nose is still a button.

It's a record

I had my wounds redressed by my surgeon on Monday. He said the amount of tissue they took from my breasts was the most they had ever removed in a reduction operation. JJ/K cup down to C.

This is not just any old breast surgeon from some backwater, but one the the top breast surgeons from one of the planet's top hospitals. So I'm guessing it's probably not an actual world record, but pretty close to one.

No wonder he's remaining so hands on.

Fico di Capo

Up close in the dark.

Family Values

Very unpleasant episode. And no curls!

Before, After and a little Ahhh Bonus

The stomach's still there, but the boobs are noticeably gone.

Just to take your minds off the sight, here are some otters I saw last week relaxing in the sun. I hope it gets bigger if you click on them.

4 X 4 X 3

Before and after pix (clothed!) will follow, when I feel less shit. Suffice it to say it took four surgeons four hours to remove 3 kilos of tissue. Lots of anaesthetic poison to get out of my system.

Fantastic treatment. Just got called in for wound check on Monday, they are obviously concerned about the amount of stuff they removed. Really couldn't have been looked after better.

When you consider staff were doing 13 hour shifts, makes you wonder how they cope.

False Hearted Judges

Poor baby's so tired he can barely keep his eyes open.

Faithfully

Season 8 was not Bobby's greatest look. but this picture is rather lovely.

The Faithful

 Iconic Bobby pose.

No Comment

Just in case anyone has recently left a comment that would have benefited from a reply from me, may I apologise for a breakdown in service. Your comments are not appearing in my mailbox. At least not on my iPad. So until I check on the blog posts, I think no one is commenting.

Faith

How handsome can a man be?

Blowing Hot and Cold

I seem to have been in full hot flush for 10 years. For most of that time, I've assumed that meant my body temperature must be higher than normal.

A while ago, though, I reached a more logical explanation: the world feels hot to me because my body temperature is LOWER than usual.

Yesterday at my pre-op assessment my temperature came in at 36 degrees, which is below the bottom end of the normal human temperature range.

So now I know why I'm always hot, but there's still nothing I can do to keep cool!

What Price A View?

If there's one thing the rich like more than having a view, it's building something that obscures someone else's.

When the ultra-rich move into offices or appointments in the new tallest building in Europe, the Shard, or stay in the hotel to be opened inside it, they will find one side obscured a fair way up by the neighbouring tallest hospital building in the world, the tower of Guy's Hospital (one of the oldest hospitals in the world).

The Shard

 



Guy's Tower

 



So what are they doing? The owners of the Shard are paying to have the 1960/70s brutalist tower reclad!

Sadly, my surgery, which will take place next Wednesday in the Guy's tower, and my brief stay in a ward there, will not offer me any views at all, as I will only be on the first floor!

Meanwhile, I have had my pre-op assessment, where I bought a couple of the bras I will have to wear after surgery. Glamorous they ain't! But there are velcro shoulder straps and front loading hooks AND a zip, so I guess they'll be pretty effective in keeping my boobs compressed till the stitches heal.

The Extra Man

Ah, the joys of the raised eyebrow.

Ex-Stasis

Those wrists.

Eosphoros

Those expressive hands...