All I want for Christmas...is nipples (and to get rid of these bingo wings!)

Its over a month since I wrote on here and for that I am very sorry, but I have really had nothing to say. 

Life has returned to normal and I don't want to bore you with mundane updates on that! 

At the 9 week mark I can do almost everything I did before; pick up my two year old niece, paint the landing, hang out the washing etc. The effects of surgery now have no impact on my daily living. 

I am driving again and all is fine except it feels very strange when I put the car into 5th...not painful but not at all pleasant...like my muscle is squeezing the implant underneath. This results in me driving in 4th for far longer than I should, unless someone else is in the car to kindly handle the gear stick for me! 

Another thing that I think you definitely should know is that I now have full on old lady bingo wings!! This is not at all amusing and there is very little I can do as the exercises needed to get rid of these awful things all involve my pec. muscles which are out of action! I will just have to work on building up the strength in my chest and hope that the bingo wings dissepear as I do so. 

So I have fabulous boobs (they really are lovely...I like them better than the old ones!!) but awful bingo wings framing them! 

In other news, I saw my surgeon for the 6 week check and he was very happy, as was I when he told me I no longer have to wear a bra! 

The next step is nipples and after talking to the surgeon and the nurse and looking at their picture book I have decided to have surgery to reconstruct a nipple.

This is done under local anaesthetic, so I will be awake and my chest will just be numbed, and involves some sort of skin origami to raise up a nipple-bud shape. When this has healed it will be tattooed by the nurse to give it a darker colour, at this point an areola is also tattooed around the nipple, however as I had quite a large area of pigmented skin around my nipple the surgeon left the outer area so I already have an areola! (this will make more sense when you see the pictures that I will post soon) 

The waiting list for the nipple recon is around 18 weeks so I should have nipples in time for Christmas!