34 Yrs Old & 5 Children....much Needed Mommy Makeover - Morris, IL

Tonight is the night before my surgery. I am really nervous. My friend and co-worker will be driving me to the hospital in the morning and then my husband will be heading over around noon. I have to be there at 8:45 AM - surgery is scheduled for 10:45 AM. I am having tummy tuck with lipo on flanks and breast augmentation. I have 5 children, God has blessed me with 5 beautiful healthy girls!!! My oldest is 13 soon to be 14 and my youngest is 21 months old. I nursed all 5 so you can just imagine how my breasts (if that's what they're called) look like. They are hanging bags and so deflated, it's really depressing looking at them. I have lost all the weight I had gained with all my pregnancies and my stomach (muffin top) just hangs it's pretty gross too. This is a lot of money to spend and believe me I have thought about it over and over and do think I am being somewhat selfish but I have faith and believe everything will turn out good and once I am healed I will be a lot happier with my body.

Yesterday is a bit of a blur. Once I arrived and checked into the hospital the nurses took great care of me. They put my IV in and stated me with meds. They gave me something to relax until Dr. Burt arrived. That helped out a lot, definitely took the nerves away. I had initially wanted a pain pump to help me with recovery but at $1,600 that was not affordable so I just take vicodin/valium now. I do remember Dr. Burt coming in to mark me up and talk to me, then wheeling down to the OR. I then recall waking up in recovery but could not keep my eyes open for the life of me. First because I was so drowsy and then because my vision was so distorted. The nurse removed the nausea patch behind my ear and little by little my vision came back to normal. The first night was not too bad, I couldn't eat anything, my husband and daughter kept trying to make me eat at least crackers so I can take pain medicine but I couldn't. My throat was sore I'm sure from the breathing tube. I slept most of the night and only got up once to pee. I was told it is good to walk around so I pushed myself to a bit.

This morning I feel good. My tummy is sore but tolerable pain, My breasts are another story. My right one is so swollen and hard compared to my left. I hope I don't have something going on in that one. Dr. Burt called me this morning at 9 and I asked her about it and she said it is normal especially because she cut more skin off that one, because it hang more. She also explained to me that she could not put the implants cc's that I wanted because she couldn't stretch me. I wanted minimum 475cc preferring 500. She said she did try to put those in but would no fit with my body frame so she put in 450 high profile silicone. I hope I won't be unhappy with them. Especially because they hurt so bad. She told me I didn't need a breast lift because I hated my areola it's huge and I wanted for her to make them smaller - just like my big belly button I wanted that small too. Monday at 1:00 is my first post-op with her and I will get to see what is under these mummy garments.

This morning I am feeling much better. I was able to get out of the recliner myself and get to the washroom to brush my teeth. I do get tired right away and need to sit. I woke up with a bad headache so I took two Tylenol instead of Vicodin. I also took a stool softener hoping for a BM today. I am not collecting a lot of fluid in my drains so hopefully tomorrow at my visit Dr Burt will remove at least one drain.