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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. ;(

Here's a little handy piece of advice I learned today. DO NOT under any circumstances go to Walmart the day before surgery. Had I not left at the precise moment I got to I would have ended up Losing my ENTIRE sh*t! I don't know if someone sent out a memo and informed everyone that If they'd like to see a live rendition of the exorcist with the whole head spinning and whatnots to head on over to the Walmart and get in my way.....continuously...as in non-stop. That's whole trip was a shit-show! Normally I don't get all worked up but today was NOT the day to stop instantly in front of me, block the entire isle so that you can talk to neighbor "Cathy" about her precious little unique snowflake of a child and their school projects, argue with the customer service lady for 20 minutes about how you were overcharged 3 cents per can on your 15 cans of tuna while there are 15 more people standing behind you with real world problems, then after FINALLY making it up to the counter the customer service girl decides it's time for her to take a break, whips out her "closed lane" sign and walks off. I could literally envision myself beating her to death with it. I just needed to sign a flipping paper. That's all, a paper! Soooo I went through the regular line and waited yet again. As soon as it was my turn I told the checkout girl "look lady" I'm not normally like this but if you would like me to not come out of character I would suggest you tell the manager to bring me that nifty little black book from customer service and I will sign it right here. I'm not going back through that line again so I'm just going to stand right here in your line until it's signed.....blank stares. So she did, I did, and it was over. I wasn't sure if I was going to scream or start crying. I think I was on the border of a nervous breakdown and then it hit me.....oh, surgery tomorrow. That's why I'm acting like a psycho! Once I figured that out I felt like I had to explain my whole life to "Monica" the cashier girl. Wether she wanted to hear it or not. I couldn't leave there with her thinking I was truly nuts now could I?! This stuff is stressful. Think I'll just lock myself in the house for the remainder of my time.....and breathe.....

Thank you all! Today is FLYING by! I got the call from the surgery center and I'm to be there at 10 am with surgery scheduled for 11:45-ish. She has me down for 275 mins. Geez! I'm ready for this to be over with!

@@kranky813 Oh I guess I should have elaborated on the "breast stuff" I was originally going to get implants but after researching I (we) decided for the best results I would do a lift now and in 6 months augmentation if I feel I want them bigger....and I will because once she takes off the skin I'm not going to have much left. I can't live like that but we shall see.

@@kranky813 I will! I'm going to do the best I can while drugged up! I'm requesting right now that if I type out some crazy long weird post that we all just laugh (to ourselves) and never mention it again! I'm going to try to reframe from singing the "kitty" song from Big Bang Theory but I can't promise that. Now that I know I'm going to have a "flat kitty" it's inevitable that it will be brought up and HOPEFULLY I will not be intoxicated enough to share any pictures of such kitty. If I do we shall ignore them too!!!! LIKE.IT.NEVER.HAPPEND.

Thank everybody!! I think I've hit all the emotional stages and today I feel happy. Hopefully that can continue into tomorrow? I'm trying to get myself in the right mindset. Maybe it won't be that bad and maybe it will but I've researched enough that I shouldn't be surprised by it. It's happening so stressing about it is a waste of time. I should know by now I'm a pretty strong chick. I've made it this far and survived so I'm going to make it through this too!

@@Babbs Yay!! Update me here on how it goes if you remember. I will try to not scare you with my pain updates and whatnots. You may want to avoid me for Wednesday to I'd say Monday.

@@FocusOnMeNow Oh yes, I'm expecting it to be long and dreadful!

@@treblecutie23 Thank you!

@@bayougirlmrsc I'm writing this all down! Flat kitten. Check! She better do it right the first time, I don't think I could live this stress again! Just shoot me!

@@AvaFern I'm glad you get my less than thrilled emotions! I start to get pissy when people say "you're so lucky" I'm like oh yea? You think so? Lucky would have been NOT ever being fat and having to me cut up multiple times! Lucky would have been naturally being thin with a nice body. While rare some have it and it seems like those are the people who find me so "lucky". Soooooo instead of getting mad I choose to think what they really mean is since you were once fat (for years) and had 3 kids with 3 c-sections to boot you are LUCKY that you have the means (through hard work) to get all that crap cut off. That's what I'm hearing now.

@@bayougirlmrsc good! I hope my stomach tuns out like yours!