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10 weeks post op update- Finally - Delaware-RECOVERY FROM 12/15- tt, ba AND LIFT -day 12 POST OP PICS

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2 months post

Went to the PS last Monday, just about 10 weeks...

tinamatiFebruary 26, 2012
WORTH IT$12,900
Went to the PS last Monday, just about 10 weeks post op. He said my belly button was more red then he wanted so he did a steroid injection into the scar to help it fade. i didn't feel it at all. Im healing well, in my opinion. Using the biodermis strips, and my PS includes scar laser treatments, every 4 weeks. This week I will have my second treatment. I really have no idea what to compare the scar to. I am very pale and it still looks red. My lift scars under the boob are the worst right now. I know they will all lighten up eventually. I know this is a process. My boobs are both in place, and they look pretty symmetrical. More feeling has come back to my right nipple, my left nipple has always had very good feeling, since the surgery. So things are going ok. Looking forward to the days when the swelling is a thing of the past. Hope everyone else is doing well!

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Christopher Saunders, MD

Christopher Saunders, MD

Board Certified Plastic Surgeon

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ArmyWife88
February 27, 2012
What a wonderful story. I can only imagine the joy you brought to those families making their dreams come true! Kinda blow away right now! You look amazing and I wish you much peace and joy inyour life!
tinamati
March 1, 2012
Thank you! you are a doll and I am so excited for your tummy tuck! are you sure you are all done with babies? That was a hard decision for me. I think you are going to get incredilble results!
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Angela R
February 27, 2012
Hey Tina, I go back to the Dr. in two weeks and I am thinking that my scars are really red! Especially my belly button so I hope he does something to it! I can not see yours that well in your pics but when I say mine are red.. I mean RED!! My Lift incisions are red too! Glad to hear I am not the only one still swelling... I am nine weeks and I am definatly still swelling and my breast still are hurting me a little bit! My left one bothers me every time I bend over.. I need to ask about that! Glad you are doing well.. You look fantastic!!
tinamati
March 1, 2012
HEY chick! When you say your boob is hurting is it like a pain only when you bend over or is it an engorged feeling still. I still get phantom pangs of pain in both boobs about 5 times a day, nothing major but like stretching.
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Angela R
March 1, 2012
hard to explain how it feels..almost like an aching pain..like it needs to drop still?? I dont know how to explain it. If I wear a bra it bothers me after an hour and if I dont wear a bra it bothers me when I bend over. Do you wear a regular bra yet?
tinamati
March 1, 2012
My PS is very different when it comes to boobie rules. I was allowed to lift my arms above my head, wear a loose sports bra and in a regular bra about week 3, but I think I finallly bought one week 4. Whens your next follow up?
tinamati
March 1, 2012
that reads weird. The PS never had a restriction on motion, from day 1, and no tight, compression bra or anything. Then I could move to a reg bra week 3.
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Angela R
March 2, 2012
yeah I never had a compression garment either.. but he did tell me to go braless. I am so sick of going braless.. so I wear one sometimes. I go back a week from Tuesday so I will ask him then.
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ArmyWife88
March 2, 2012
Awe thank you Tina, your sweet. Yes I am sure my husband is in the Army and we want to keep out crazy lives as simple as possible lol. We love babies and our children are awesome and we planned both of them even though we are so young. Both times it took a year or more and then when we finally did become pregnant he left for deployment a few months later both times. It was heartbreaking! We didn't want to go through that again so he got a vasectomy right after he got back from Afghanistan a few months ago:) I am so ready sweetie! Thank you for the encouragement! Again you look so awesome!!!
UPDATED FROM tinamati
1 month post

I was 6 weeks post op on Thursday and I am feeling...

tinamatiJanuary 28, 2012
I was 6 weeks post op on Thursday and I am feeling good. I started the bio strips about a week ago and I noticed to day after my shower that there were little red bumps around the area where the strips are. I text my PS and he said to stop using the strips and he will see me at my follow up, which is this Tuesday. I really wanted to use them because they seem so good, and I don't want my incisions to keloid- I have a history of that happening to my skin. My cold is finally going away hoping to start the eliptical and walking this week, though I am cleared to do everything, Im going to take it slow and ease back in. I may try strenth training next week, if this week goes well! ;-)

New pictures added today. Happy recovery and upcoming surgeries everyone.

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UPDATED FROM tinamati
1 month post

I just realized I have NO pictures of how my boobs...

tinamatiJanuary 28, 2012
I just realized I have NO pictures of how my boobs were, then I LOOKED for a picture and realized i was ALWAYS wearing a padded bra and on special occasions stuffing with water cutlets. SO I found a RARE pic of myself after a yoga class with a light bra on.

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lisee38
January 28, 2012
Tina u look FANTASTIC!!!! Wow your so frickn tiny & look at that rack!!! The girls look perfect honey! So happy for u! I have my 3 month post op pics & BA consult feb 20th!! I'm so excited!
tinamati
January 31, 2012
Thanks!

whooo hOooo! Are you going to keep updating your story? Im excited for you!
mommy73
January 30, 2012
Your scar looks really good.
tinamati
January 31, 2012
thanks! Thats a good section, there is a spot right in the middle thats a little more red but over all its healing pretty good.
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mom_me
January 31, 2012
Wow you are doing fantastic. Your story is so great to read too. I almost did the surrogate for my sister in law because she was having trouble. I would do anything for her. When she had one and was trying to conceive another doing surgery shots etc. I found out I was pregnant again. Well this was crazy for all of us to hear because my husband had had a vasectomy when our second was six weeks old. It was now close to a year and a half after and I get pregnant while she is having such a difficult time. :( Luckily she did have another also. I am shocked at how much less your surgery was and you got the pain pump, one on one nurse, hotel, catheter!!! Lord I would have loved a catheter for three days lol. I'm so happy that this is all working out so well for you after all you have given to others. I bet the families would have included a mommy makeover in the surrogate fees if you had asked. You look beautiful and hope you begin to feel it soon because you will then have it inside and out!!
tinamati
February 2, 2012
Thank you, you are so kind.

I can't imagine how shocking it is to just get pregnant after your spouse has a V, that is crazy, that is like closing the door on babies and then it breaks WIDE open. That alone has to be tough.

I freaked about the cath, then I was happy I had it, it was easy to remove.
tinamati
February 12, 2012
I forgot to comment on how you said my surgery was so much less, when it was actually 3,000 more then the other 2 PS's quoted. SO I think it is a regional thing. I just found out at my 6 week visit that lazer scar treatments were included too!
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mom_me
February 2, 2012
I saw you were worried about taking it out and I would have been too. I was just thinking of how silly I was to lay down at night in bed and think I would have to get up slow but I never imagined how hard it was going to be. And I had to pee soooo much the first two nights. I know we had to start all over with baby stuff because we thought for sure we were done. The doctor made us SWEAR and sign papers that we were done having babies before he would do surgery. We did and we were WRONG and God always knows best because the son that we had after...I call him my "alien" child because he is and has been so wonderful since he was born. He is 17 now and wants to be an architect, I told him that makes perfect sense because he built a bridge inside daddy to get here in the first place hahaha.
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