Tummy Tuck: Stories

Hello everyone, my tt is on Oct. 10th and it is something that I have been looking forward to for the past few weeks, but now that the time is almost here I am FROZEN!!! I've known for a week now what day my surgery would be and until then I had been trying to prepare for the day that I would have my tt. Now that it is almost here I can't function! I can't clean, can't think, I can't breathe, I can't concentrate , I can't do anything, I have spent the last 2 days just sitting here," frozen". I don't feel prepared, I have been taking supplements for about 6wks now, have been trying to exercise, and looking up as much as I could to prepare myself for my big day, now I'm frozen!!! It's funny, time isn't going by fast enough ( can't wait to get it done), and is going by too fast at the same time (feeling like I'm not prepared enough). I have read some of your post which were helpful, but I know that I have missed many more. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

I have 4 days to go till I'm on the flat side. My daughter came to help me, but then got a call for a new job and had to go back to the bay area. I'm kinda nervous because I have 4 dogs that stay inside, and the 2 little ones are always jumping on me, and wanting to play. My husband is a truck driver and will be out on the road, it's hard to try to schedule time off with him. He has been home for over a week and needs to go back, he will be leaving 2 days before my surgery. So I'll be home alone with no one to drive me from the hospital or care for me, so I'm on my own. I guess I'll be ok I'm gonna go geo groceries maybe the day before and try to think of easy foods that I can make myself (lm a picky eater). I plan to just try my best to take it easy and hopefully all will be well.

Good morning everyone, today is my day...I'll soon be on the flat side. It's 6:40am and I am here at the hospital waiting to leave with a new tummy!!! Surprisingly I'm not nervous, scared, or excited it's just a regular day. My nerves have been all over the place, but now I'm calm....at least for now :-) Well, when I leave here I'll be cuter than I was when I got here...lol . I'll let you know how it went...ttyl.

Hello everyone, this is my first post since my tt 10 days ago.....well where do I began . I arrived at the hospital about 6am. and was ready for surgery at about 9:30am . After surgery my ps wanted me to stay overnight for observation, and it's a good thing. First of all I couldn't pee nor did I have the urge to go, then my b/p dropped really low, like 74/42, and then I had to get a blood transfusion, so what should have been a same day surgery turned into me staying in the hospital for 4 days. I'm home now resting and as it turned out I have plenty of help, my daughter, niece and mother all came down from the bay area to see about me....I have a truly wonderful family : ) . I am very swollen and I couldn't take that damm compression garment any longer so I haven't been wearing it. I am sooooooooo sore, my vajayjay looks like a basketball that has been stapled to a beach ball (my tummy)...lol. It hurts with the slightest touch. I am taking cipro antibiotics and can't take them with iron or vitamins so I have to wait 2 more days until I finish with the cipro. I also have arnica, but I think that I will wait for that also. Overall I am very happy with my tt, I think that once all of the pain and swelling goes away I will be one hot mamma....lol. I will post pics when I am up to taking some, right now the pain is just too bad...ttyl.

I am 7wks post op I feel pretty good but I am very swollen . Even my boobs and butt are swollen. I had a po visit yesterday with my PS, so now I have to go and get a ultra sound. Wow, I tried to do everything right pre-op because I wanted to be at my best after surgery and I guess it didn't work...lol. I'm not sad or unhappy with all of the things that have been going on , just rolling with the punches, but I'll be glad to get to the part when my stomach is flat!!!. And yes I would do it again, even though everything that you could think of has happened to me, I'm still happy.

Hello tummy tuckers, just wanted to do a quick update. I will probably have to have another surgery, my swelling is not going down. Doc thinks that there is blood in there, will know after I get a CTscan.
Dose anyone know if I can post pics from my phone, and if so will you please let me know. ttyl