Recovery underway from surgery #2

I'm not going to write much today but I will give an update because I think that's what everyone wants. I'll start by saying this surgery was, by far, a LOT less painful and invasive/intense than the first. The pain I am dealing with today closely resembles that of getting stitches or a biopsy. I actually haven't taken any narcotics since the day of surgery (Tuesday). Since then I've just been on Tylonal and Advil. I mean, it hurts to move in certain ways and to take a deep breath, but just sitting, I can't really feel anything. I also have to remind myself the severity of the mastectomy surgery: all breast tissue was removed and an expander put in, 3 lymph nodes were removed, a drain put in, and it took about 4 hours. This surgery was about an hour and I actually went home the same day. I do vaguely remember after waking up from anethesia the nurses saying how funny it was that I had just woken up and was (apparently) already talking and laughing with them. Who knew?!
A few good things about this surgery:
1. I didn't need a drain this time because there was so little bleeding/fluid draining
2. The doctor only had to "deflate" my tissue expander by 100 cc's meaning it will take 2-3 weeks to fill it up again, whereas before it started at 50 cc's (with the mastectomy) and took close to 6 weeks to fill up completely.
3. No drain means I was able to shower after 36 hours. (last evening)
4. Besides headaches and nausea (probably from the anti-bac they have me on to prevent infection) and the little bit of pain here and there, I really feel OK.
Now of course we won't have the pathology results of the surgery for about another week, which will tell us if there were cancer cells in the margin or not.
I have a post-op appointment Monday and depending on how that goes, I will probably be able to go back to work Tuesday. My next appointment is the following Monday, and if all is healing correctly, the re-expansion will begin, thus marking the second start of the reconstruction process.
So, I'm taking it, as I always do, one day at a time.