I believe your procedure is also referred to as an anchor incision and Shalee04 had it, I think, and is thrilled with the results. She posted that the central incision basically disappeared and she has a great figure. I can see where that procedure would give an hourglass figure compared to a plain TT. Please keep posting about your journey.

Mimi

Edited January 17, 201016 yr by Mimilou2004

Becci, except for Kenya making you crazy, you sound like you are doing really well!!!! I can just picture you jumping up and down then having a moment of "OMG-what have I done!!" This is a strange question, but will you ever have to do sit ups again in your life or did the stitches fix that forever?

LOL, shoes and handbag!!!!!

Mimi

This is a strange question, but will you ever have to do sit ups again in your life or did the stitches fix that forever?Mimi

You know, Mimi, I'm really not sure. I suspect that the muscles have merely been put back where they should have been - well after 4 kids and a lot of obesity my muscles had parted down the front to the tune of about 3 or 4 inches gap all the way down. One doctor asked me to do a sit up in order to demonstrate the gap (I was so very obese that it was hard to demonstrate the hernia/muscle partition any other way) and his comment when I did as he asked was "THAR SHE BLOWS!!". I felt like Moby Dick!

Sadly, I feel fairly sure that the repair merely puts things back where they are and if I want "abs of steel" I'm gonna have to work hard for them (darn it!). On the other hand, what would I want to be doing with abs of steel???

LMAO, you are a hoot!!!!! I agree, why would I want abs of steel at 59, especially if I have to work on it every day. Not like I am going to catch me a sweet young thing, LOL!!!!!

Mimi

Oh, I don't know Mimi. Never say die. My old Grandma (rest her soul) used to always advise me "Marry money and take a lover:drool:". You know, I should have listened to the wise old bird.

Please don't take offence if you are married - so am I - and my hubby is 8 years younger than me. He is coping with the realisation that his geriatric (42) wife is now a faster runner and fitter person generally than he is and that info is hitting hard, but not quite hard enough to get him off the sofa. He is taking solace in fast food - ooh, dear!!!! Perhaps we should get him walking Kenya - it would be good for both of them, and would perhaps help me regain my sanity. He is from Nepal and I keep on trying to persuade him to run the Kathmandu Marathon with me this summer - fat chance. I'll keep working on him.

Edited March 3, 201016 yr by Ohm
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Gosh that would be wonderful if hubby would walk Kenya!!! No offence taken, I am single and looking, albeit not too hard, LOL!!!! My co-workers keep asking me what "his" name is or whether or not I have found a man, it is quite funny because to their way of thinking I couldn't possibly be doing this whole journey just for myself!!!! Nepal, huh? I sense a story there!!!!

Mimi

We met when we were allocated adjoining desks inthe post graduate research centre at Uni. All the other women were swooning over this gorgeous young man and he got the desk next to me!!! And the rest is history. We will have been married for, ooh, 7 years this June.

Inter ethnic marriages can be hard work, but then any marriage can be hard work. We muddle along. Some days are more fun than others but there must be more to life than "fun". Hard work and co-operation maybe, at the very least.

Edited March 3, 201016 yr by Ohm
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What a story...I love happy stories. As you say every marriage has to be worked with and on!!!!!

Mimi

So tell me, what or who are you looking for (albeit not looking too hard)? Sean Connery (ooh)? Will Smith (yes please)? Any chance I can fit you up with one of my international traveller buddies?

What an offer----I accept!!!!! No serial killers, please, LOL!!!!

Mimi

OK, so here is that latest installment in the saga of Kenya!!!

I was about to take my Benedict to school this morning and I turned back to get Bens lunch box from the kitchen side. Big mistake. Kenya pushed past him at the front door and made a bid for freedom. I reached the door to see her energetically pumping rear end disappearing off down the street at a rate of knotts!!! It was just at the time when everyone was taking their tiddly widdlies to school and there were quite a few Mums and small kids and loads of teenagers on their way to school - and she loves kids.

"Agh, Kenya!!!" screams I, and without thinking I took off after her (with my neighbours thinking I had comletely lost my marbles). Now let me report that I was not walking fast or jogging - I was running, sprinting with everything I'd got and I wasn't thinking about surgery or scars or taking it easy - I was worrying that she might frighten someone (she's one scary looking mutt even though she is as daft as a brush and as soft as butter) or jump up and knock someone over - or even get herself knocked over by a car as she doesn't have the sense she was born with (psychotic mutt!)

Well, it was only once I had caught her that I thought about what I had done - I'm sure my surgeon would disapprove but I guess it just goes to show that I am fighting fit and ready to resume regular exercise. And I think I shall make Soup out of my dog - Kenya Chowder anybody? Now which seasonings shall I use? Darned dog!

Anyway, here is an updated photo of my new tum - taken this morning. I've still got a few tiny bits that haven't quite dried up or scabbed overyet, but no infection now and no pain - even when chasing mad staffy down the street and screaming llike a banshee!

Edited March 4, 201016 yr by Ohm
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OMG, what a story!!! I am glad you have no side effects from the run and could actually do it without thinking!!!

Kenya Chowder, indeed. Every time I go out my doors it is a challenge to keep the 3 I have inside. They really love to escape, no idea of the consequences of getting hit by a car, etc!!!!

Thanks for the updated pictures. You are really looking good!!!! Those little bits will heal in no time. You have a nice hourglass figure!!!

Mimi

You are too kind, Madame!

Well, today I have to report that there is nothing to report. I feel fine, the little spots that hadn't healed are healing, the lark is on the wing, the snail is on the thorn, God is in his heaven and all is right with the world - OK so maybe that is a bit of an exaggeration, but there are no post surgical problems.

This week the builders will be in to build our extension for the use of my 20 yr old son who has some medical problems. This said, they will first have to demolish our 2 brick-built outbuildings/sheds and so we all spent the last 3 days ferretting through ten years of accumulated junk. We decided to throw so much of it away and have bought a small plastic garden box (5ft by 4ft by 3ft) to store the stuff that we must keep (lawnmower, brake Fluid, buckets, shovels and gardening tools - that sort of thing).

Whoops, I hadn't finished, but the last message just posted itself. My laptop seems to be making unilateral decisions on my behalf!!!! It must be male!

Ah, so where was I?

Oh yes, clearing the sheds. Well, I'm not supposed to lift anything heavier than 5 lbs, but you would be surprised how many things in that shed weighed less than 5lb! We did 10 trips to the recycling centre to get rid of all the junk and accumulated detritus. I really must learn to throw things away.

One of my huge problems is my family - I buy things (cooking equipment, cleaning utensils, mops, buckets, etc) and, of course, they never use any of these things under any circumstances so they view them as "useless" and unnecessary and, in the pursuit of tidyness, ferret them away in the shed - I look for the stuff I have bought, can't find it and end up buying more of the same stuff, convinved that I am losing my marbles and have just imagined buying the items inthe first place. Well, having sorted through the shed I found 9 vileda mops. NINE! I have enough buckets to bail out the Queen Mary and sufficient cleaning fluids to start a small environmental crisis!

But with all this said, I now have a nice SMALL storage unit which I can use to store surplus items and 2 nice empty sheds ready for demolition on Wednesday. I cannot wait!

I am sorry your son has health issues, it is a wonderful thing that you can keep him with you and help take care of him. I have a friend that has been paying monthly on a storage shed rental for many years.....I told her to sort the stuff, get rid of it and move on. If she hasn't needed the stuff in all these years she probably doesn't need it!!!! Now you, you had a need to find all that cleaning equipment, LOL!!! A nice small utility box will be wonderful...can't build up stuff!!!!

What is the next mission? Glad you are continuing to heal.

Mimi