160 Lbs 39 Year Old Mother of 6 ... Tummy Tuck .. Lipo... Breast Lift with Implants Fat Transfer to Butt :) :) :) - OK

Yesterday was 3 weeks since I started my journey to the flat side and what a journey it has been! Week 2 I started having some nerve issues in the crease of my leg up by my gron. Went to see Dr.brou he said it was due to my garment being 2 sizes too small and causing more swelling then I shoukd have which is causing pressure on my nerve. So he overnighted me a smaller garment. It's been a week later and the nerve issue is not as frequent but still will zap me sometimes. Mostly when I go to stand up or sit up when I'm laying down. My tummy is still a little swollen. BUT yesterday morning I was able to get a glimps of a flat tummy with NO swelling!!! It was great!! It was the first time since I've had my surgery. It was short lived tho :(.
Last night was the first night I could lay on my side without the pressure of my body hurting my incision. It was only for a couple of hours but it was a relief to not have to lay on my back!

Can't believe it has been 6 days since I hit the FLAT SIDE!! Yay!! Still is unbelievable to me. I'll go back a few days since I haven't updated in a few days. The morning of the surgery I was calm but nervous if that makes any since! My surgery started at 8:15 am and lasted till a little after 5. When I woke up in recovery I was in a lot of pain! I've been told with a mm you don't really feel your breast implants because of the trauma and pain to your tummy but I am here to tell you ladies that WAS NOT true for me!! My breast hurt my nipples were on fire I felt like I could feel EVERYTHING! I stayed over night in the surgery center and my nurse was just awesome but I remained in pain. It was intense but talerable. She told me I would be released around 5:30am so she needed me to walk to the potty around 5am and I told her there was no way in hell that was happening but she assured me I could do it and you ladies here on REALSELF are truly what gave me the motivation to get it done!! Lol NO KIDDING! The countless journeys on here I have read and they ALL end up with a walk to the potty room so we did lol and it hurt like hell!!!!!!!!! The drive home was okay. As long as I was sitting and not moving I was in good shape it was the moving that was just unbelievably painful! Get home ..., I have stairs to my house!!! I thought there was no way I was going to be able to do that but I did!! Wasn't as bad as I thought. First 3 days were a painful blur. I have an 8 month old daughter who thinks she is literally attached to me she doesn't relize she is a different body till I go to put her down then she's like oh heck no!!! Come back you forgot something, She has done amazing!!! I can't believe how well she is taking this. She just plays in the floors will crawl up to my chair pull her self up give me a big toothless smile crawl down and she's off!!! I'm so thankful for that! Day 4 I went to Dr.Brous office for a check up and even with 2 drains my back was still retaining a lot of fluid so he breaks out a HUGE syringe with a HUGE needle and pulls 4 syringes full of fluid out of my back!!!! Then tells me I'm not standing up straight enough and makes me straighten out!!! OUCH!!! Although it did hurt like hell I did feel a lot better leaving his office. So here we are day 6 and I have managed to take a shower by myself got around pretty good today but still lots of pain. I TRIED to start weening myself off of pain meds but that was a little premature I really paid for it later this evening. I have to go back to Dr.Brous office in the morning to look at fluid in my back again and to hopefully get these dang tubes out! :). That was a really fast gist of what has happened these last 6 days lol Happy healing ladies!

Well here I am 10 days to go! Can not believe it! I am so so thankful for this website even tho I am a little addicted! My husband isn't even shocked anymore when he gets a glimpse of my phone and he sees naked and bruised bodies lol!! Anyway back to what I was saying, I LOVE this website and I'm so greatful for it! It has perpared me better than I could ever have imagined, Down to the recovery time to the recovery supplies, what I should expect from my PS and my family so thank you REALSELF!! Thank you to all of the ladies on here sharing your journey to the flat side. From your before pictures when we so hate how we look to the flat side and being in so much pain and sleepy from the meds you find it in you to keep us update so we to can prepare ourselfs for what's to come. Thank you! I have put my befores up and I will see you on the flat side in 10 days!! Yay!!