Tummy Tuck & Thigh Lipo Scheduled for April 6th - Cherry Hill, NJ

Over a year and a half later and everything is GREAT! I would do it again in a heartbeat. I'm still paying it down but it was worth it. By belly is still flat and like everyone else, I just started exercising again for my new years resolution to get toned. I had lipo on my thighs during the tummy tuck surgery and I feel like that fat is back so it wasn't worth the money. Looking back the pain was bearable but I wouldn't recommend doing it if you only have 2 weeks recovery. But then again I had the muscle repair which was a majority of the recovery. To this day I do a double take in the mirror to admirer my flat stomach. Hope everyone else out there that plans to get it done has a good experience too!

Had my 5 week post op appointment today. Doc says everything looks great. I'm still wearing the binder but as of today he said I can wear it 12 hours a day for the next week till I get used to not wearing it. He said leaving it off at night might be best so I can get used to it because I'm not moving around and swelling. My swelling is very uneven and all by my pubic area, he said that is normal. I hope so because it looks funny. The scar is looking better. The doc said to start massaging my ab area every day for 5 minutes or so to help with the fluid and swelling. I can't wait till it all goes down and looks flat. I go back in one month.....3 days before I am taking a trip...on the back of my boyfriends motorcycle to North Carolina.....about a 6 hour trip.....here's to hoping the swelling is gone and the ride is comfortable. I feel pretty good but when I do to much I am really sore at the end of the day...including my back. I just started a new job....really it was what I went to college for but ended up doing something else for 14 years and now I am following my dream and just started working with a Commercial Photographer to do sales and studio management as well as assisting him.....I'm really psyched and hope that this new journey and my new tummy are what I hope them to be:-) Thanks for reading...I'll update when anything changes.

3 weeks post op! Everything is going well. At my 3 weeks appt the doc removed a little bit of fluid from my pubic are.....that seems to be the only area that swells the most. He said there really isn't much fluid, it's just swelling. I go back in 2 weeks at which point they will have start taking the binder off for half the day. I see on a lot of these posts that women aren't wearing the binders that long. I've had it on full time since day 1.....and for the next 2 weeks which is a total of 5 weeks before it goes to half days. Is that the norm...? Hopefully the swelling will go away soon and I can enjoy the full results:-). Other then that...everything is great!