Another boobs post, or rather a surgery post.

[pointytilly]

"post more often Tilly" is a tag now. I also need to be on AIM more, but for now...well, here we are. I'm trying to be more social other ways. Little brain steps. The more I do it, the less I panic and freeze, though I'll probably always be AIM-scarce. (Tumblr and LJ and e-mail, I am there, though, and trying to NOT reply at the speed of brick

Comments

[retsuko]

I don't think your chest looks boobish. I would just be concerned that people would ask you weird questions about the scars/patterns if you went shirtless.

Do you get phantom itches around the incisions? After I had surgery to give birth to my son, the area where the incision didn't regain feeling for months, and when it did at first I would get these weird itches below the incision, but I couldn't scratch them because I hadn't regained sensation at the top. It was not fun. As you say, bodies: lovely and gross! :p

[pointytilly]

That I can deal with! And thank you.

I haven't really gotten phantom itching, but when it was going from more to less numb, I got weird twinges and twitches, like it was learning how to work nerves again and occasionally they'd decide to just WHEE. Itching underneath sounds auuuugh.

[neogeen]

I think you look fine! I'm really appreciative of your open posts like this. The procedure and healing factors are all things I don't have much experiance or knowledge in, so reading and being able to learn helps a lot. Thank you for that

[pointytilly]

I definitely do not mind! I do have some undershirts a bit like that, though now I have the problem that most things don't come in small enough sizes without the wrong cut. I probably should have a go at clothes shopping anyway, put that way it sounds fun.

Pretty much anything but heavy workouts/heavy lifting should be fine-the jar opening thing seems to just be something odd about the twisting, and I've always been bad with jars. If you know of any good things for arms/wrists that are super-pathetic, I'm game! (Pushups are out for now, wrists are all NOPE over those.)

[plink_chan]

If I say anything that offends, I apologize; I am ignorant in a fair few areas. My knowledge grows, but slowly, so educate me if I step off the line, ok?

I think everything looks fine; but then it's your body so you're going to notice things a lot more (I'm the same re: the movement of my eye/ facial twitches) I don't know how anyone could mistake you for anything other than you. The body will catch up - it's been almost nine months now and my face has settled down to just around the eye area - and that wasn't surgery that was as long as yours. (Okay, perhaps more delicate considering it was an eyeball, but still; cut open kind of stuff). It's going to take time for the insides to catch up with the outsides, but patience - and believe it or not, stimulus - will help the body respond. It will settle down. Maybe not feel 100% right, but functional, workable and comfortable. *gentle hug

[pointytilly]

Don't worry too much about getting it wrong, I can tell you're not trying to and will say something if needed? Er, yes. If that made no sense I blame the weird sleep I've had lately.

And stimulus...I don't know much about eye surgery stuff and what to poke after that, but massage seems to be helping some with the stitches in my stuff. Though boy are some of them feeling weird now. Means they're going away or working their way out, I guess! It feels almost prickly under the skin, or something...more than before. Though I bet that's just more sensation coming back, given the less numb.

I've been darn tempted to lose clothing with how hot it is lately :p. I probably could well into fall without getting cold, but it's best to wait for spring. The last thing I need is to sunburn myself on fresh skin!

(and thank you too!)

[pbjsammich]

I remember once when I was a kid being really happy to have a flat chest before the hormones kicked in. I ran around shirtless, all proud. Haha. Then things changed.

I'm glad you're healing up well. To me you really don't look one gender or another. I don't think I would assume anything about you if I saw you at first glance. I actually have always thought of you as someone who was just you. Never thinking of you as masculine or feminine. Tilly has always been Tilly to me.

I hope things heal up nicely. I do think people might ask questions... just because people are people. They can be curious or just rude, unfortunately. I think what matters most if if you're happy with how you look. If you accept how things look now, then that's all that matters.

[pointytilly]

I apparently liked to run around almost naked as a small kid! Flat chests feel cool, dangit. (I also liked dresses because they didn't pinch anywhere and you could tuck yourself into them, like a cooler version of tucking yourself into a big loose shirt.)

And aw man, thank you too. All these nice things people are saying is making me wibble a bit, in a good way.

[subtle_rift]

Congratulations on a rather unremarkable chest. The nipple thing - everybody in the world sometimes gets wierd when they spot some imperfection in thier body. They can fixate on it, lose the ability to perceive it objectively, obsess, and blow it out of all proportion. It'd be difficult for you not to do that, given how much attention you're obviously giving it. Point being, they're just nipples. There's nothing particularly noteworthy about either of them or them both as a pair, unless you go looking for something. But that's true of nearly everyone. I am... not good with words. Just... current redness aside, you look great.

[pointytilly]

Hey, rather unremarkable is what I'm hoping for XD.

The redness is pretty noticible for now, but definitely goes away going by my other scarring experiences. And yeah, I'm definitely hyperfocusing...though it's hard to shut up that part of my brain, it does help to hear from other people that I am. So thank you!