nov 2nd tummy tuck

i have finally made it over the HUMP. I can finally say im feeling better. My muscle repair is still tired and sore and i need ibuprofen for it but i do not need to be wrapped up in garment 24 hrs a day. Im actually only wearing spanx when active to try and wean off the garment lol (because it feels so good). I have had an opening on my right hip that is about 2mm open and leaky. It has gotten better since i stopped putting stuff on it and letting it dry out. I have also had so much swelling in my vaginal area. My nodes in my groin are swollen and painful but only time will tell that they will go down. I did follow up w/my gyno to make sure it is surgery related btw. If you have swollen nodes too don't think just because mine are fine your are too Get it checked! my incision is so itchy which is a good sign :) my numbness is disappearing. It seems the first 3 weeks you heal so fast then the 4&5 are so slow and depressing. I can't wait until i feel 100% and when i don't tire easily. I find myself at 3:00 just so tired. I can also walk straighter but more towards the end of the day Im hunched over. My puckering is a bit better. Im upset with a fat pocket in my lower belly but it looks better than before so im still satisfied. Hope everyone is healing fine :)

Okay ladies I have not posted in a while mainly because things got much harder. My mother in law left and so did all of her help :( Even though my mom flew in and she did her best and probably wore herself out she didn't help me enough where I really needed it with the kids and getting out of bed in the morning and things like that. I wouldn't have minded my house looking awful if my kids were being cared for minus me getting up and down and up and down and fixing lunch and so forth. I hate even saying it because I am very thankful for her help it is just been difficult. My two year old came down with croup on Monday and we have been going to the ER and a ton of doctors visits to prevent him from being hospitalized so now I am up every few hours getting meds and giving breathing treatments and so forth. I am also sick with a cough and let me say OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH! I feel fire in my MR areas. My PS seems to think I didn't damage anything and I sure hope I didn't. I cough as light as I can control and put pressure on my belly while I cough to hold it in.

Today I got my tape off and the swelling has gone down tremendously. I was worried about swelling after the drains were removed and I got some which is completely normal and expected. It has gone down however even though there is still swelling which my PS says to expect swelling until around 3 months I will be 85% then around 6 months-year I will be 100%. While he pulled the tape off a little of my scabs were removed and I bled a bit.

So to sum it up thus far, the day of the surgery I was in extreme pain. I have been making progress daily from getting up and down by myself to walking more up upright, being able to tilt a bit more to the side while lying down, lying a bit more flat, standing while showering, etc. Believe me these are major. I'm still in pain because I am not allowed to rest with my two year old. He would have been in school and not sick and fussy and needy and I would have been able to rest more. Most of my pain is due to MR which is great because I know I will be tight :) The garment is good it helps the pain so much. I need it to cover my upper abs more than my lower abs. I also got myself the roll gauze for the dressing and it works the best. I wish I would have had that from the beginning.

As you see from the pictures I have A LOT of puckering but I'm not overly worried about it because I know it is from packing the upper skin from a large incision into a lower shorter incision. I came into this with realistic expectations and with an open mind which I believe is very important. I see a lot of reviews where women are a bit too concerned in the beginning which can be valid but your body needs time to adjust and heal. Yes, it will be good but you also have to deal with the ugly beforehand!

Sorry for the pubes...eww so disgusting but I have not been interested much in caring for myself since I am so tired and in pain.

Pics from a peek yesterday whenever the tape came off my bandage and I had to fix it. Pics from today whenever my drains came out. It was not super painful just felt really strange. I'm happy with the results. I still don't believe it is my tummy. Im so excited that im a milf!!! I'm worried about encountering swelling now but I'm sure whatever happens will happens will happen.