Cure for your sleepless nights...

So on Tuesday, I got the first set of drains removed.  It was also time to stop taking my anti-inflammatory pills, which the Dr. described as heavy-duty Tylenol.  Dr. Stacey warned that I may feel some discomfort and my still-embedded drains may produce more for a little while since they removed the first set.  I didn't really listen to him; I was more concerned with the lightness I felt from having a set of liquid-filled grenades removed from my sides.  Well, I certainly remembered those words from him later that night when I began swelling up like a toad frog.  Per instructions, I've been wearing this very sexy white cotton bra from Wal-Mart ($6.00) that snaps six times in the front.  (Six times!)  They told us to get one or two sizes bigger because I would be a little swollen.  I'm normally around a 33, so Mom got a 36.  Well, by Tuesday night, every snap had come undone except for the top one, which was barely holding on, and straining with all its might.  This was not an "oh my gosh, that girl's boobs are so big" kind of swelling.  This swelling and straining was more like this:

I was puffy.  All over.  I don't really have much fullness, so it was more like hard expanders completely surrounded by swollen flesh.  It looked weird and felt even weirder.  I decided to go to bed, and propped my head up on pillows with a tea towel on my chest and two big bags of frozen peas.  One for each side.  Thank goodness for frozen peas.  I left them on for a while, and when finished, just put them in my pink barf bucket that's still at the side of bed from when I first got home.  I then slept better than I have for a long time.  If you're having insomnia problems, perhaps you should try peas on your chest.  Forget Ambien, Great Value frozen peas are cheaper, and they won't make you sleepwalk, sleepshop, or sleepdrive.  And I guess you could even eat them the next day, although I don't really suggest going that far.  Thankfully, the next morning, I woke up with a normal (my new normal) body minus the swelling.  I guess my body adjusted, and my beautiful bra fits once again.