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omg stoppp!!! hehe ^_^ !!!!

“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!

Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”

- Sacha Coward

Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero

Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”  

also computing was typically a job for women (many of whom were black women that made incredible contributions) back in the day, so it’s absolutely fucking wild that straight white men think they are the foundation of computer innovation. men PUSHED women out and took the credit.

what the failed education

system never did.

They’ll probably put a breathing tube down your throat after you’re knocked out. You’ll wake up and your throat will hurt (sort of like strep) for a few days after

You need to wear compression tights for a week or two after surgery, they’ll provide them. This is to prevent blood clots since you won’t be moving around a lot

The IV goes in your hand??? They’ll probably numb you first, which is good. But as someone who’s incredibly uncomfortable with medical needles, seeing a needle in my hand was weird

The surgeon will come in before the operation to draw on your chest. They’ll also ask what size you want your nipples to be. You need to tell the surgeon what size you want your nipples to be, don’t be afraid to be specific. These are your nipples.

Anesthesia/surgery will make you EXHAUSTED afterwards. Like “falling asleep if you’re sitting down for more than a few minutes” exhausted

The tightness of the bandage will probably cause most of the pain. Don’t mess with it, the nurse will fix it during the post-op

The pain is going to come in waves. You’ll feel fine for hours then as soon as you move you’ll feel like you’ve been stabbed. It’s important to remember that the pain is temporary, but the relief is forever

Trying to sleep comfortably will be weird, because you have to sit propped up

No showers until at least your first week post-op, washing your hair in the sink or having someone to help wash it for you is your best bet

The pain medicine WILL make you sleepy, almost 24/7. Don’t fight the sleep, take naps. Fighting the sleep isn’t fun, taking naps is cozy

You won’t be able to move around much due to pain, so find a favorite show/movie/channel/literally anything you can watch or listen to while stationary

Laying down flat is BAD. Sitting up is GOOD. Sitting in some kind of couch or recliner or bed (while propped up) is BEST

Pick cozy pants that are loose fitting and easy to take off and put on, as well as a button up shirt that’s at LEAST a size or two too big. You’ll thank yourself

Changing dressings will look weird, you need to remember you’re healing. It’s not going to look perfect BECAUSE you are healing, let them heal and they’ll look nice once they’ve finished

Water and herbs are your friend. You HAVE to have a low sodium diet for a long while after, so spicing things up with herbs instead of salt is your best bet. Also water will continue to save you because thirst.

The doctors say this a lot but I’ll say it too, stool softeners. Not laxatives, stool softeners. Apparently surgery can cause difficulties with digestion and using the restroom, so better safe than sorry

DO NOT take ibuprofen or anything with ibuprofen in it!!! It can cause bleeding/complications, the doctors WILL give you prescription pain meds and you should take those as instructed. Worse case scenario, Tylenol is your friend.

There will be times when it will hurt even if you’re doing everything right. Your body just had giant stab wounds in it that are now held together by stitches. There’s gonna be pain, it’s gonna suck, but you need to remember that the pain is temporary.

Find a back scratcher. You’ll need the back scratcher. You’ll thank yourself for having the back scratcher.

For example, a lot of this wound care stuff just didn't apply to me because my surgeon uses waterproof surgical glue instead of bandages.

One advice I have to give that's informed by my experience is please please tell them if you're in pain. I woke up from anesthesia with a distracting but bearable amount of pain, but they gave me pain meds for it because it wasn't supposed to be so painful.

If you go home and the pain is bad enough that you are having trouble sleeping, are avoiding moving around more than what your surgeon has advised your limitations are, you feel yourself always tensing up to the pain, or you're having trouble focusing because of it, TELL THE SURGEON. That is information they want to know! They might change the instructions on your medication, or prescribe another one on top. When I was still having bad pain a week or so in, I was prescribed a special pain med targeted at nerve pain, because they thought the drains were poking into some nerve somewhere.

Like, if you're someone who gets or got really painful period cramps, and you get that level of pain during the recovery, please don't just bear it because it's temporary. Relaxed people heal better and u and ur surgeon can problem solve if something needs to happen to fix it together.

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