Mommy Makeover: Stories

I am booked for August with Dr. Chong, I'm happy I found your review!! You look great! Did you get any option in your scar placement? Yours is nice and low, I'm hoping mine will be super low.

So happy to see this review! I'm booked March 7 with Dr. Chong and very nervous. Your before pics look very similar to me and I love your after pictures.

That is so good to hear, Pink!! Glad all is well with you. It has been a LONG time since I've been on RS and I've been missing my gals. :) Happy to hear you are happy and all is well!!  

Well thats great to hear! Happy for you!! Ya, i'm just trying to think of things i can do with my kids especially my 22 month old w/o being too straining on anything!
did u sit up lots like at the kitchen table for long periods of time? that shouldn't do no harm to the incision right?

Cardio is a breeze, running feels weird just because the abs need to stretch so it kinda pulls. No problem with weights as long as I dont have to lay down or go to heavy. i dont think it will take long to get back to normal.. Everyone is differant , and we all heal differantly so you may not have any problems getting back to working out.

really! i know it's a major surgery but wow! i was hoping i'd get my old life back by 8 wks!
how about Cardio? You able to run yet?
me and my girlfriends are attempting our first 1/2 marathon in November in Malibu and i have to start my training for that as soon as i can!..hoping by mid june at least!?
so lets say you were standing up straight and wanted to do some bicep curls...u think your able to do that w/o it hurting?

thanks for the gauze tip...i so didn't think of that! gonna do that right now!:)

Looking GREAT Pink!! :)

so when did u find u it got to how it would look? 3-4 wks?

I also find my binder is digging into my incision and it burns!
Back to the gym...good for you!! What were u all able to do? did any movements feel odd?
Begining of May (i'll be 7 wks) i had registered for this bootcamp wkend seminar but i think i'll be cancelling. Could have u been able to do drills, and lunges and circuits at 7 wks po?

Well i so wish i'd be in your shoes right now! these 7 wks are gonna go by soooo slow!!

Good for you!
don't know if u saw, but i posted some pics of my 4 days po. i hope i'm swollen, because to me i still look thick & a lil flabby? and i noticed in your pics, u had no gauze in your belly button. Mine is still in there..?i have a hard time looking at everything!

Congrats on your positive 8 week check up!!

Just be careful you don't do to much, you wouldn't want to tear your stitches or something.. I go see him tomorrow and I'm so hoping he tells me I can burn my binder.. I seriously have had enough of it, adjusting, things poking my sides , and it's slowly self destructing... I'll let you know how it goes.. Get some rest!

she gave me some other pills ..starts with a t, lol..but i can't take those either, they make my heart pound out of my cheast and anxious! i'm hoping he'll give me a couple more days worth or perc's until i see him on wednesday to take the drains out!
i also think i'm doing too much around the house..but i'm trying to help my hubby out so he doesn't snap on the kids! i bent down on my knees to the floor to put laundry in the dryer and pulled myself up...now i'm paying for it i think!
when do u see him this wk?

I can't take t3 either so I asked for something differant and the nurse at the clinic gave me some wicked pills that knocked me out ... I felt like I shoul have been on intervention.. I was a space case.
Email Michelle : Michelle.drchong@gmail.com

i can't have t3's because they make me itchy, and i have been having a cup of coffee . I feel like my head is split in half!
did u say that dr. chong gave u a email to ask him questions or just that number from the rah?

LMAO can I blame the narcs 8 weeks later for my typo? OXYCODONES

I got terrible headaches from the ocycodones. Apparently it is a side effect to some narcotics. I switched to T3's with codiene on the Monday and was fine.

I also figured out that I had gone 48 without coffee, that DEFINITELY did not help matters for me. It got a little better when I finally had my first cup on day 2.

Could be from the anasthetic... Are you still taking painkillers?

day 3 and i feel like my head is splitting in half!! is this normal? huge migraine!

LMAO I don't even want to know what I said when i was coming out. He asked me if I remember him being there and I don't, but it makes me think I said something stupid LOL.

I puked too, even though they gave me something. I needed gravol for the next 2 days. I also had my surgery on a Thurs and my PO visit at 2:30 Friday. I then drove 90 minutes home and it actually was not so bad. I did take oxy's until i ran out on Monday (2 every 4 hours, I have a high tolerance to drugs) and i then for T3's for the next 4 days and then XS Tylenol fr the next week. It was definitely the lipo that hurt the worst.

I slept in my bed from day 1 (well, hotel the first night) I had loads of pillows for a nest.

I got to shower sunday, and made sure I was sitting when I first took the binder off. Then stood up VERY SLOOOOWLY. When I saw myself in the mirror I cried. I sat on a little stool and had the best shower ever, tying my drains on a string around my neck.

I am still wearing my binder most of the time, but at 8 weeks out (as of yesteday) I am weaning off of it and now feel better without it than I did up until now. I felt VERY uncomfortable without it for a long time.

Your so funny inviting Chong for dinner .. Lol
I was on Tylenol by day 4-5 and of needed I took something stronger at night... Just ask for more pills he will give them to you. Rest up and before you know it you'll be trying on everything u hated before the surgery and loving how it looks!