The story..

Of my infection..

I've been asked to write about what happened so here it is 🐰

I think the beginning of all this was fairly typical, I just noticed some redness.. It was very slight so I wasn't worried and there was no pain or anything else I thought of as alarming.. I left it a couple of weeks thinking it might go away but it didn't.. When I decided to go to my doctor (who I've known quite a while, she knows my expansion story) she said "why didn't you come to me sooner".. She took my temperature and my pulse and said "on the plus side you don't have any serious symptoms though" and prescribed me antibiotics.. I was put on Co-Amoxiclav (Penicillin) for 3 weeks, though most people are only on it for 1 or 2 at most and that took care of things..

My doctor btw isn't anti plastic at all, in fact she has always been super supportive.. She's a family friend.. She did however ask me to also see another doctor and he was a lot more against the fake look.. He didn't like at all that I was so big and said he thought I should downsize dramatically and just be done with it all.. He did however concede that I wasn't in any immediate danger and I could think think it over..

In the meantime I didn't want to be worrying and moping around the house so I decided to take a trip to South Africa.. It might seem strange but I wanted a distraction and to be in a completely different environment..

By the time I had gotten back I was ok (well as much as can be expected) and I thought why not book in for the butt implants I had been thinking about earlier in the year.. I explained everything that had happened to my doctor and we went ahead.. I took a blood test beforehand and although my platelets were elevated (meaning my body was still fighting the remnants of infection) I wasn't in a bad state.. To a normal person I would have looked healthy..

I was put on extra antibiotics after my butt implants and again everything was under control.. It was a pain having the drains in but health-wise I was doing ok.. 

I did have a niggling worry about my infection coming back though and when we had some difficulty taking out my drains back in Essex I thought to myself ok I'll head back to the US, deal with it there and take care of the infection once and for all.. I knew there would always be a fairly high risk of it coming back if my shells weren't taken out and my pockets cleaned and it wasn't unlikely that things would get far more serious.. 

Of course I wanted to give myself the best possible chance so here I am.. As I've mentioned, I had the antibiotics (more Penicillin and a topical cream called Bactroban, which I used on my wound daily).. I've been in an oxygen chamber most days to speed up my recovery, then there was the wound vac.. The very last step was surgery to clean the pockets to make sure the infection never comes back..

I went through more treatments than most girls who get infection because they often just explant.. My wound was not over my implants though so they were never exposed.. When they are that's when explant is needed and usually that means no boobs for 3-6 months, though it can be as long as a year.. 

Some cases become incredibly complicated and then there's reconstruction needed too.. That's why when all is said I don't have much to complain about..

I'm almost ready to go home now.. I've booked new flights, ones that are changeable though, just in case lol.. In my last post about this I mentioned how kind people had been and that has been probably one of the biggest positives of what had been a difficult situation.. It hurt to walk because of my drains but the people I met never made me feel a burden when I worried that they might resent me for being slow.. When I bled on the plane they weren't mad, which I thought they might be.. Me though, I have lost my temper a few times this month and that's when things have gotten on top of me.. I'm sorry for that btw..

If there's anything else you'd like to know about my recovery just ask..