Why I'm Still Crabby After Two New Boobs

This article was originally published on Better After 50. Today is Friday morning, and the second morning in a row now that I'm grabby. Of course I don't mean GRABBY -- I mean CRABBY, and it pisses me off that I wrote grabby instead of crabby, because it shows how out of it I am that I can't even type a word correctly as I say it in my head. Some might call it irritable. Some might call it downright bitchiness. Some might call it depression. Some might call it, correctly, that I had surgery on Wednesday to replace the spacer after my mastectomy a year ago and give me a little lift on the left side to make things even ... and I am the patient with the least amount of patience. I got two new boobs on Wednesday ... I should be grateful and happy ... I'm on the last steps of putting this whole ordeal behind me. How is it that I am crabby? I'm crabby because the general anesthesia gave me a multi-day dull headache that I can't seem to shake. I'm crabby because my right boob still feels like I have a softball inside it when this surgery was meant to make it a lot softer. I'm crabby because I feel like I took at least three steps back from how I felt the day before the surgery, and about a thousand steps back from how I felt over the summer. I'm crabby because I can't blow dry my hair, and I am convinced that I look like a wrinkled, gray haired, old lady. I'm crabby because I have to sleep on my back for six more weeks, and I absolutely hate sleeping on my back. I'm crabb...
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