Day 24

Well it has been a while since I have blogged but I have went back to work and I have had a hard time getting readjusted to working. I did not realize how my range of motion had been impeded with my surgery. The scars still feel really tight as in when I lift my arm I can feel the pull near the incision site. As a manager my work week consist of 6 days. So I went back this week and I stayed home only one of those days when I had a lot of swelling going on.

Most of my steri-strips are gone now. I have about a two inch strip left on my left side that I have been a little nervous about trying to remove. I keep reading that I should let them just fall off. I had to coerce mine into coming off because on day 21 they still acted as if that had no plans of ever coming off.

I went back to work two weeks after my surgery. Honestly for having a total mastectomy I think that was to soon. The first day I went I had major soreness and lots of swelling. I put my Ace Bandage back and put ice on it and that helped. So now I am afraid to go to work without my Ace Bandage on. So I think I will just wear this thing until most of the tenderness is gone. Personally I would recommend that one should wait at least four weeks to insure that they are through the rough spots. I would have but my doctor said it was okay for me to go back. So my job expects me to do what my doctor thinks is best.