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Nina's before and after pics (warning may offend)
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Hi guys,
I feel much better now, I feel like I have been travelling forever! Finally got back to the kids yesterday.
I thought that I would do a quick breakdown of how it went while I can still remember.
Feb 11th went down for surgery at 8 in the morning didnt come out until 2pm, he said that it was more complex than he thought it would be due to a badly adhered scar from my appendix and other things. I remember that I went into shock in the recovery room (it something that I do a lot when I have had an anaesthetic) so I had to stay there for quite a while, so that they could get my blood pressure under control. They ended up putting special heated blankets on me to stop the shakes, my teeth were chattering like a pneumatic drill!
When they took me up to the room I remember being amazed at how slim my legs were - I have yet to see those legs againLOL - and he told me that they took 7kgs off me. I found out the exact stats at a later consult they were
skin - 26cm deep strip off my tummy (well over my tummy button!) that weighed 1.5kg
Tummy lipo - 1kg
Legs and ass - just over 4kg
I remember the first day being really painful with a few thoughts of holy cow what have I done????? going through my head ( sorry guys who are yet to go but the first day is a bit of a nightmare)
Finally got to sleep that night and when I woke up the morning after I felt 70% better!!
The first day it felt like my boobs were resting on my knicker line, and I felt like I looked like a block! I suppose that they were really but it felt like I had no midriff at all.
The lipo hurt sooooo much I was black and blue on my legs especially.
I was up and wandering round the day after albeit a bit bent over.
I got the dressings off after 8 days and I have to tell you all I only had 6 external dissolvable stitches on the outside of the scar, he did the rest internally!!!! Yup thats right I had only 6 tiny stitches along the WHOLE incision!!! I had more stitches from the lipo:lol: I have 12 entry points for the lipo and it is still swollen now:biggrin:
My PS has said that it takes about 4 weeks for the swelling to go and that you lose 80% in that time but it doesnt really start going down until you are 2 weeks out, the other 20% can take up to 6 months:eek:
The TT follows roughly the same rules but the swelling takes longer,he reckons that 3 months out you are starting to see the true result but it can change for up to a year:eek:
You get really tired when you least expect it, apparantly it is something to do with the lipo but other than that it has been really easy.
Anyway here are some piccies, I am sorry that I am scantily dressed in them - hence the warning at the top!
Nina x