Merry Christmas guys!

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Everything's been great. My sister's in freakin' Hawaii so she wasn't at grandma's (so jealous lmao, and I did miss her) but she had gifts left for us. She got me socks, fancy lotion, and a Barnes and Noble gift card, and grandma gave me money. She gave Korey a little, too ;3; so sweet of her. It was a pretty good Christmas at grandma's thing, with

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Ah, re; your questions regarding the surgery, I had an abnormally shitty hospital experience. I don't really want to recount everything that happened to me because thinking about it makes me mad, but I'll direct you to a post I made at the time. This shit was so awful. As for the more basic stuff, like what being under anesthesia and recovery type stuff is like, anesthesia works great. I've had it used on me 3 times now, I believe. Once when I was in 8th grade to have surgery on a pinched nerve, once for getting my wisdom teeth removed, and once for bariatric surgery. It puts you out pretty quickly and you don't wake up when you shouldn't or anything. If the nurses do everything correctly and you have access to your painkillers once it wears off, it's pretty great there.

As for recovery, it should be kept in mind that my surgery was a bit unique for a couple reasons. It was done laproscopically, which means it was done via a few tiny incisions as opposed to a big one. Also it was a stomach surgery. My skin healed pretty fast, and there's almost no traces of a scar on me at all. My stomach took about a week to not hurt, though, and I was on some intense painkillers. I get the feeling it being done on an organ that you really have to use and use fairly frequently slowed recovery down some.

What operations are you wanting?

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Ah, okay, well I'm sorry you had some poor hospital care but glad you had a successful operation! It's a shame when nurses are bitchy and don't show compassion...if I was a nurse, I'd be so warm and kind to the patients. I've met medical assistants like that, and I always think, why wouldn't you want to be smiling and friendly if you got into this business? It's to do with helping and healing people, which should equal being nice to people as well. You see those commercials for medical assistants training and they show the girls being so sweet, but it's not how it really is!

Do you remember how long you were under for the surgery?

And I want to get rhinoplasty and breast augmentation. The rhinoplasty will help with not only appearance but my sinus problems as it will fix my deviated septum. And the implants, well, I just want that for self-confidence. I'm scared of going under though, though I don't know if I'll have to, there are some doctors who say you don't have to go all the way under.

But the main issue is cost. I've got a lot of big expenses coming up this year, and these kinds of surgeries aren't covered by anything.

Was your covered under any insurance?

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Well, it is a profession that makes decent money, too, even on the lowest levels. So unfortunately a lot of creeps that just want to be guaranteed cash but don't give a shit about people get into the field.

It was probably like 4 or 5 hours total counting the operation. I think I was out for 1-2 hours after that.

I'm all for getting a surgery that'll actually medically benefit you, but I'd seriously not recommend the implants. You don't need them, you're gorgeous as you are and plenty of men like women with smaller breasts. Not everyone needs mountains. Also there is a stigma against fake tits. You'd be just as likely to run into men who'd turn up their nose at you for having implants as you would men who wouldn't give you the time of day because they're small. Both guys are equally jerks, of course, but really why not just save the money when crap like that will happen either way? Your body is your own and the media's obsession with giant tits doesn't make you not pretty. /hug

My surgery was over 90% covered by my insurance, yeah. Are you sure there's no way your insurance would help on something being done to fix a deviated septum?

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Yeah, I actually am seriously considering going for nursing for the money, but I'd also have compassion and am good at being friendly with the public. I'm only worried the courses would be too hard for me. But you're right about why a lot of people go into it even if they aren't compassionate.

Ah, so you were out a good while. I don't think I'd be out that long, I'm only curious because the longer you're out, the more dangerous an operation is. I admit I'm scared of general anesthesia.

Well, I just feel like my body would look more balanced if I had bigger breasts. I also have special circumstances in that I really want to find a guy in his 30's or younger, because with me being older and planning to have children, my children are already at more of a chance of having birth defects, but I read that men 40 and over are more likely to father kids with autism. Well, after working with a boy with autism, I'm terrified of having a child with it. I mean I like him and all, but I don't know how I'd handle living with one. Not only that but I want gandkids someday and autistics usually don't marry and have kids.

So, that being the case, I need to do whatever I can to highly increase my chances of getting a youngish man, even though I can always use a donor sperm, I'd prefer conceiving naturally as it's more chance to get a girl that way, and girls are less prone to birth defects.

I think I've discussed the insurance for deviated septum thing with a doctor and I don't think they cover it, sadly. But I will have to ask again.

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To be fair, it was a fairly complicated operation.

I'm sure you'd do just fine as you are, but ultimately it's your choice.

That's ridiculous, damn. =<.