Nym's Breasts: Making it real

[nym_wibbly]

I bought bras for after my surgery, yesterday. It's impossible to know what will fit until the dust settles a few months on from surgery, so I went with one pretty, cheap, overrrun-stock Marks and Spencer pocketed one from Ebay, and a horribly expensive but forgivingly adjustable-all-round Royce post-surgery one in roughly the right size. I'm fairly uninterested in replacing my boobs with fake ones, after lugging the real ones around for my whole adult life at great pain, bra expense, and generalised, neverending discomfort, but I can see the logic of folks who say it's hard to get summery clothes that fit nicely if you don't have a curve in roughly the right place, particularly for larger ladies with smaller shoulders like me who have to base their choices on what will fit bum and hips. The Royce bra could also hold protective dressings in place for that nasty phase during healing where everything itches and cries out for moisturiser, or if I want to protect the wounds at night.

I went for a C cup (I'm an H at the moment), which is as big as I'm prepared to go, even with a soft fake boob filled with lightweight stuffing. Smaller than C is probably going to look like I stuck tennis balls down my top, but if I can get away with smaller, I will.

I'm fairly well prepared for the hospital stay and for getting comfy once I'm home. I'm currently running down my freezer stock so I can fill it with things that the parental unit can re-heat or microwave, since my arms will be out of action for a while. The parental unit Does Not Cook. She's willing to do so while I'm recovering, of course, but she doesn't know how to do most of the things I do in the kitchen. Reheats it is.

My big chore now is making my bedroom nice enough to spend time in. I have so much clutter and not enough places to put it, and I just sort of stopped caring what my space looks like as long as I can find stuff.  It's not a place to lounge and relax, though, and I need to make it into one. Today's chore - replace the missing curtain hooks. For some reason, the ones in my bedroom crumble and snap regularly. Something about how the sun hits the house, I think. I'll have to take the curtains down to sort it out this time, so they might as well get a wash while I'm at it.

And then I'm going to make some mental space for writing A Bed of Thorns, before my head explodes with words.

Comments

[vorpatrils]

Congrats on your surgery! Here's hoping it gives you the quality of life you're hoping for. Also hey, cheap bras again eventually!

Also feeling you on the curtains. I really need to re hang my curtains and re drill the curtain bracket into place but ehhhhhh I just got my room how I like it and id have to move stuff.

[nym_wibbly]

I'm so hopeless at DIY, especially anything above head height. I'd have swapped out our glide rails for a pole and metal curtain rings decades ago, otherwise!

[vorpatrils]

DIY above head height sucks. Happily, my curtain rails rest nicely on the tall bookcases either side of the window :P

Glide rails are the devil, getting them down, threading the curtain, putting them back up, HOPING they pop back in nicely UGH why were they so popular.