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Thanks everyone! Much appreciated!

Thanks everyone. I'm trying to share as much as I can with you all without grossing anyone out. I love seeing before and afters and the true process.

@@Djmohr I just posted some above

And as promised here is a before and after. One day difference. It's amazing!!! I can't wait for my 6 months when all the swelling is gone and I'm healed.

!!!! WARNING GRAPHIC PICTURE!!!! Now that I have that out of the way, I went to my surgeons today and we took the bandages off. Here's my very first glimpse of my new belly! Amazingly enough she didn't have to repair my muscles, she said they were shocked that they were fine. That's why my pain hasn't been so bad!

My boobs haven't hurt at all really, sometimes I feel a small ache but nothing to speak of.

@@bayougirlmrsc Girl that's because every waking moment I wasn't at work or sleeping I was researching everything I could. Good for somethings but bad for stress. 98% of what I read was how horrible and painful it was. How they would "rather have died" than be In that much pain ect.... So I as freaking out. I had to pay in advance thank god because if not I'm pretty sure I would have backed out. They made it sound like it was the worst pain imaginable. One lady write worse than child birth ect.. It may have been really bad for them but I'm flying right through it as of now. It's crazy how each persons experience can be so different to that extreme. I really think it's this dilaudid though. It's a very strong narcotic. I feel normal on it. I still function just fine but with no pain. I would be afraid to go without it but after tomorrow I'm going to try to switch to over the counter pain relief

I'm taking the Arnica Montana dissolvable tablets for bruising and swelling. I can't tell if the are working or not at this point since I'm all bandaged up.

It's true, she did

I could literally walk straight right now if I wanted to. I'm not though because I don't want to put any tension on my scar and have a ugly one. I never got to use my fancy walker..sad but I'm donating it to the clinic for one of my patients so not a loss. I just don't need it. I have an appointment at11 with her so I'm excited about her taking off the bandages so I can get a full look. My belly button looks so cute from what I can see. That poor baby has been hidden in fat for YEARS. Cute little innie! I can't see the whole picture of everything yet because me has me all taped and gauzed up under there but I'm hoping to snap a picture today in the office.

@@KindaFamiliar Noted love....noted.

Well it's 5am and still not in any pain. I am so incredibly thankful! I thought this was going to be horrific and stressed over it for a full month, every stinking day! It's almost scary how well it's going. I have a bit of a achy sensation but that's it. I've stayed on my Dilaudid only taking one instead of two every 4 hours. It's a miracle drug for sure. I didn't have any other pain methods such as the pain pump or exparel (the 3 day lasting lidocaine) what she did use was Maracaine a shot 3-ish hour acting numbing injections in the muscle repair. It's worn off by now and I'm still pain free for the most part. My c-sections were way worse as was the VSG surgery. We will see how today goes. I've read where people have more pain on day 2/3. I'm eating and drinking just fine. No problems there. No nausea. I eat graham crackers before I take my meds and push the fluids. It actually feels good to get up out of this chair and walk around my house. I do that every time I go to the bathroom for some "exercise'. My husband and daughter (15) have been the perfect nurses! My daughter took over the night shift and made sure I got up and took my pills ect... This last time my husband snuck in and held my hand and rubbed my cheek. He was checking on me I guess but I was awake so he helped me with everything and I shut my daughters alarm off so she could sleep. School for her tomorrow. Ok, well that's probably more than anyone cared to know but I'm updating while I'm awake. So far I couldn't ask for a better experience.

Sleeve!!! It's the best of the best!!of course it changed my entire life for the better so I'm bias!

@@VSGAnn2014 Ha! Yes, that! I'm not allowed to laugh so you stop that! pain still isn't bad though.

@@bayougirlmrsc My kitty IS flat!! Lol I sneaked a peak and that's the first thing I checked ha!!! I will try to get some good pictures tomorrow! This is soooooo cool! My husband said " Holy sh*t you are flat! The roll is gone!" And he doesn't even cuss!

I'm home!! They did a FANTASTIC job. I woke up in zero pain and still not having any as of now. I'm including a picture and I look like absolute death BUT I'm keeping everything real!

Fixing to go back...

Thank you all! The count down is on!

You have to drink them VERY COLD! Not the best tasting stuff but the melon one wasn't too awful.

@@anewme2015 Will do.

That's just me.....checking out this whole chair set up thing with the pillows and props. It's actually nice right now. We will see how I feel about it later........ I'm assuming the "beach chair" position. I'm not so sure this should ever be considered anything like a "beach" maybe another word that sounds like beach?!

@@KindaFamiliar yes, I see.

@@KindaFamiliar You shut it!! This day is going way to fast as it is! I don't need this stress in my life!

@@bigbit I sure hated it today!!

@@Babbs I'm going to try not to. I'm not so sure I will get into heaven after my shenanigan I pulled today. Oh AND to top it all off I got the WOST cart in all of the history of carts. I cussed at it the whole way through Walmart. I could have just got another cart but it was the principle! I F'bombed it into the wall on the way out. Lady coming in the door was staring at me all crazy. I gave her the "what!, say something, I dare you" look" My middle finger was itching but I kept it moving! My behavior was not pretty so I'm sure God isn't smiling down on me right now. ;(