Through Plastic Surgery

Tissue Expansion Explained in my words.

The Picture Gallery

Having plastic surgery to recover from the damage of 4/5 years of self harm is a big thing for me. It took a long time to get here, not just with the overall time of digging in my arm for vessels, but also the time spent waiting until I became viable for such surgery. Big things require big spaces and I guess ultimately, in the blogging world, it warrants a page. Now I don’t know how this whole journey – a journey that has only just begun on creating this page – will affect people so I guess here’s my warning to tread carefully. Maybe the ideas, pictures etc will upset some people, they have trigger warnings on forums for a reason I know, but maybe they can also serve as a warning in themselves about the dangers and damage of self harm. If sharing can help then I’m all for sharing. This is just my growing diary to chart at least one aspect of “getting better”.

• The Night Before We Began – Hopefully This Is Goodbye Self Harm
• My First Appointment With Dr Plastic – Options For My “Useless” Skin
• Appointment Number Two – Dr Plastic
• The Bloke Who Made It Happen; My GP – Trust
• Setting A Date Part I – I Have A Date With Dr Plastic
• Setting A Date Part II – Magnifying Glass
• The Pre-Operative Assessment Letter – The Letter
• Pre-Op – The Magic Number
• The Night Before Admisson – Tomorrow, Tomorrow
• And The Morning Before (Pictures) – Leaving For My Leftie
• Hospital Story Part I – The Hospital I’ve Just Come From
• Hospital Story Part II (Pictures) – Patiently Waiting
• Hospital Story Part III (Eating Issues) – Bad Patient
• Hospital Story Part IX – The Demon Nurse
• After Dressings Clinic – CAT And Cuts
• My Arm – Leftie’s Update
• My First Tissue Expansion – Comfortless Leftie
• Tissue Expansion No. 2 – To Be Morphined
• A Tissue Expansion Diagram – I Wiki-ed It!
• How Skin Expansion Feels – Blobbins!
• Tissue Expansion No.3 – All I Can Say Is “Ouch”
• A Problem – Problem?
• When Leftie Burst – And POP!
• Emergency Surgery – What Happened
• Telling Doctor Plastic That My Arm Had Burst – Still One Handed
• The First Expansion After Popping (Internal Stitches Involved) - Blood Goes To Work
• Tissue Expansion No.3 Take 2 – Leftie’s Growing Quickly
• Tissue Expansion No.4 Take 2 – Leftie’s Gonna Get Ya, Leftie’s Gonna Eat Ya
• Tissue Expansion No.5 Take 2 – Because I Took Time Out To Moan Instead
• Tissue Expansion No.6 Take 2 – That Time Of The Week
• Tissue Expansion No.7 Take 2 – Everyone Cover Their Eyes
• Tissue Expansion No.8 Take 2 – And It’s Monday Again
• Leftie’s Last Expansion – Cor…Blimey!