T-Rex Arms

Now, the thing about breast reductions is that your arm movement is restricted.  You can't really fully extend your arms.  You can look up at the cereal box, mugs etc, and lift your arms up....go right up on your tippy-toes....and be no where near close enough to grab that desired item.

Oh, you want an drink of that water sitting on the table right next to you.....but you can't quite reach.  Oh you dropped that on the floor??  Too bad - use your foot to pick it up.

Basically I was like a T-Rex.

OK, so I could lightly clap my hands, but the "oh" came out of my mouth plenty of times.

For instance, my family love to play Phase 10.  Sitting around the table I couldn't shuffle (Not that I can shuffle to begin with so I wasn't particularly upset about this), and I could barely lean forward to get a new card and pass it on. And I was passing it on to my Grammie who has no rotator cuff in her right arm, so she was a T-Rex right along with me.

Slowly but surely my arms are getting more mobile, but it's a slow process for sure.  You just need to be able to laugh it off, and have people around you to help you.