Hello everyone! I know I've been MIA for awhile but I haven't really had any updating to do. I'm still managing the same weight. I'm trying not to lose at this point since my PS said not to. What I have been doing is obsessing over my cosmetic surgeries coming up. I'm having a tummy tuck with muscle repair and some breast stuff. Its consumed my entire life for the last month and now it's almost here. I'm not going to lie I'm terrified and just now starting to get a slight bit excited. Most people seem to be ecstatic about it. I hate the thought of the pain and whole long recovery period. The results are going to be worth it right? I've paid, I'm going. I woke up on the "losers side" last time and now I'm waking up on the "flat" side. If anyone has any before and after TT pictures they would like to share I would appreciate it! The hardest part of all of the research I've done is finding pictures of weight loss patients before and afters. I'm trying to find a belly that looks similar to mine. Ugh! Wish me luck! I need it.

I liked my recliner/zero gravity chair post lower body lift. If you are in bed...pillows help to semi recline.

I did not experience much pain at all, but I was admittedly in the clinic and well medicated the first 3 days post op.

If it's any consolation, both my recent kidney stone and the wound complication(thigh!) I experienced this year were WAY more painful than the lower body lift from 2013. I did spend alot of time walking slowly like a 95 year old arthritic woman (those were doctors orders!) Took awhile before I was standing straight!

Good luck and remember it will be so worth it and the discomfort will soon be q distant memory.

COngrats Elode. Good to have you back! Wishing you the best on your surgery.

pam

@@Elode so you and i have had chats about your Plastics.... and i know you are going to come through this like a champ. I know i have mentioned this before, but if you have a recliner... sleep there or up on the couch. The bed was difficult for me. My TT was so tight that lying down was the worse. Remember the C-Sections... how sitting up was the best.... Same thing doll.

You are going to look so freaking amazing...(you already do). I am super excited for you. Remember the giant kotex (placed them on top of incision for comfort), and keep that compression garment on (i felt better when my stomach was compressed).

http://www.bariatricpal.com/gallery/album/23717-post-tummy-tuck/

My before and at one year

and at 4 years post op

@@jane13 lol! I will work on getting that!! They say it can take 6 months to get some real results. It's a lot of swelling!

@@Threetimesacharm I've already researched hers and they seem to be the round shape. I saw one she did 12 days ago and it was round. She said that people always remark about how great her belly buttons turn out. I will just be glad to see one. Mines been hidden in fat for years! Time to free the little sucker! Lol!

@@CowgirlJane I never realized how painful they could be until I did some reading of stories. I won't get to stay in the hospital but she did give me a script for 4 mg dilaudid which if you didn't know is an extremely powerful narcotic. Stronger than morphine so I'm a little scared of it. She gave me 50! Plus Xanax for anxiety, antibiotics, nausea meds & muscle relaxers. I think I'm going to be knocked out!

@@mngreeneyes Thank you so much! I finally have something new to talk and obsess about! Pictures!!

@@bayougirlmrsc Thank you for all your help! I bought the Kotex yesterday. I have a new leg prop pillow, gel butt cushion, fabulous back ball heater massager thing for the back pain, huge body pillow, prune juice and smooth move tea lol! Plus lots of other junk! Oh and my fancy walker! I will be pumping my breaks all the way to the bathroom in style!! Beep beep!!! Oh and a shower chair.

@@Elode

You will love your new look! I was also not excited before plastics, lol. People kept saying "omg aren't you so excited" and I was like, "um no I'm terrified, but thanks". I had not really thought much about the belly button but the one I ended up with looks just like the original one, so I guess my surgeon was awesome at that part too. You really won't be able to see the final result for months. While I liked my original result, I looked like a big, swollen, sausage for two weeks or so and then the full swelling, especially around my hip area wasn't gone for 2-3 months. You're already thin, so with the skin removed, you will be thrilled. Being able to wear tight, sheath dresses and high-waist dresses without every worrying about a gut is awesome.

I would say enjoy the process, haha, but the first 2-3 days are crummy. Day one you feel great, day two you feel like you got hit by a truck, day three you consider dying...and then it's all uphill from there. For me there was very little pain, I was just exhausted, which I guess is what happens when your body thinks you were just massively injured and it needs to get in high gear to fix you.

Good luck!

@@bayougirlmrsc Thank you for all your help! I bought the Kotex yesterday. I have a new leg prop pillow, gel butt cushion, fabulous back ball heater massager thing for the back pain, huge body pillow, prune juice and smooth move tea lol! Plus lots of other junk! Oh and my fancy walker! I will be pumping my breaks all the way to the bathroom in style!! Beep beep!!! Oh and a shower chair.

You are set.... for sure.... Your more set then i was. Your the same weight i was when i went in....

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

@@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.

@@Elode, When will you have time to have the flames painted on your walker?

And girl, please get yourself a pedi preop, you won't be wanting to for a couple weeks after, at least.

Elode,

I hope your surgery goes well and with a quick recovery!

@@Elode i saw that body suit thing you bought.... omg. Trust that will be what you will look like... Flat as a fritter.... I love that thing... wish i would have had one like that. I want to be the first to see a bikini pic..... You will look banging HOTTTTT. Your stomach is already better than mine before your TT... so i know it will be better after. Make sure he knows you want a low cut, and to pull up to flatten out Kitty... Make sure he knows how important your belly button is... i told mine before... you mess up, your going to be do some redo's for free... and i was not joking... and he knew it. Your paying for all this and you must get what you want...