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I've Been Waiting a Long Time for my Tummy Tuck! - Chandler, AZ

My surgery was June 22nd 2012. I had lost 60 lbs...

  • 9 Jul 2012

My surgery was June 22nd 2012. I had lost 60 lbs on the HCG diet since jan and had ALOT of extra skin. So happy to finally have a regular belly button and to be able to fit in cloths again. I went from a size 22-24 in nov 2011 to now a size 10! They removed 30 lbs of skin and fat and made me look beautiful again. My tummy tuck cost $3700 and that included the Lipo!! So excited to go cloths shopping!

I'm in the hospital now. I had to have a huge...

  • 12 Jul 2012
I'm in the hospital now. I had to have a huge piece of my lower stomach skin taken out due to a lot of dead tissue and extreme infection. They say they can't cloths the hole for 3-4 weeks. I guess you do get what you pay for. The surgeon seemed so nice and gave me an un beatable price so I did it. Biggest mistake ever. Learning experience I guess :( a very painful one.......

I've been in the hospital now since July 10th....

  • 15 Jul 2012
I've been in the hospital now since July 10th. Hopefully I'll be discharged tomorrow. I've had 3 blood transfusions, 2 iron transfusions, have had 2 CT scans, have a pick line in my arm that goes just about to my heart. I have to have this wound vac thing on for the next 3-4 weeks, dressings are changed every 3 days, and antibiotics put into my pic line 2-3 times a day. This was way more than I bargained for.
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Since my surgury I've become enimic and have had to have a large section of my stomach removed :(

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Finally I have a bellybutton 29 Nov 2012
I am still having a lot of complications and wish I never would have done the tummy tuck. It is not worth the life long effects I will be facing :( I want my big belly back
Kimmers25 (Community Manager) 15 Jul 2012

I am so sorry you are going through all of this now:(   I hope that you heal up and are able to make a full recovery quickly!  

Please keep us up to date on how you are doing.

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