Here's what you should know.

If you are ever planning on having a breast reduction.
There. I said it! It's my blog, after all. I have decided that this being the record of my life, I had better be poignant enough to write about all the details.

So, without further ado..

1. You will most likely cry as you are coming out of the surgery. Especially if you have a meanie for a nurse. I cried for my mom.
2. There will be fluid trapped under your skin, and it will hurt.
3. For this, they will insert drains. Drains consist of a tube roughly 2 feet long that starts at the bottom of your breast and goes through, ending at your collar bone.
4. The fluid will then proceed to collect in the drain. I will never look at tomato soup the same.
5. The drains are hard to sleep with as they pull.
6. Sometime after your surgery the doctor will remove the drains will you are awake. Sucking noise.. that's all you need to know.
7. Life is better after the drains are gone.
8. You have to sleep on your back. Rolling will wake you up.
9. Two weeks later, you will still be sleeping on your back.
10. Also two weeks later, you will start to experience 'shooting' pains in your skin.
11. Stinging, burning, aching, throbbing, swelling.
12. Not much bruising- odd huh?
13. The surgical bra SUCKS.
14. Numbness. And itching. They don't make sense much together.
15. It's the best, most satisfying thing you will do for yourself! And that's the truth.