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4 and half months post op
Hi Everyone,
I'm now almost fully back to normal and feel great. We went to Cuba for the new year and I finally wore a bikini with confidence so here's a pic! We are off to Mexico in April and I can't wait to wear another bikini!
I'm now almost fully back to normal and feel great. We went to Cuba for the new year and I finally wore a bikini with confidence so here's a pic! We are off to Mexico in April and I can't wait to wear another bikini!
Four weeks post op pictures!
Hi Everyone,
I'm currently four weeks and two days post op. My tummy is looking so much better than I had expected at four weeks. I'm still swollen in places but this is normal, I can't wait to see what I will look like at my 12 week follow up.
I'm currently four weeks and two days post op. My tummy is looking so much better than I had expected at four weeks. I'm still swollen in places but this is normal, I can't wait to see what I will look like at my 12 week follow up.
First dressing change. 10 days post op'
Yesterday my Fiancé and I travelled back down to Birmingham for my first dressing change, I was feeling really anxious and sick at the thought of my binder been taken off and the dressings removed and also for me to be able to see my wounds and my new belly button for the first time. I've come to find my binder a sort of comfort, even if it is a restrictive chest squeezing contraption, I think that if I take it off everything will fall slack and pop open (even thought I know that's a ridiculous thought and I know that won't happen it's still there in my head).
I hobbled though to the nurses room and she helped me on to a reclining couch and helped me take off my binder and started to remove my bulky dressing and clean my wounds. I was dredding looking, what if it didn't look right, or what if my belly button wasn't in the middle? I hesitated and at first didn't want to look at my stomach but I took a look which revealed a proper belly button and a long low scar just below my bikini line. The nurse told me my belly button and scar both have dissolving stitches which was a relief because I didn't want her to have to start tugging and my wounds.
What a relief I can see a huge difference already in my tummy it looked like it wasn't my tummy, even though it's still swollen and looks battered and marked and scarred from the incisions it's flatter and smoother already and I have a lovely belly button.
I do have some pitted dimples that have appeared but apparently these a totally normal, it's where my surgeon has stitched the skin to the muscles with dissolving stitches and these will smooth out over time.
I have one more week of the binder and the dressings then I can swap my binder for my own high waisted firm support pants and take off my dressing and use a surgical tape which I have to apply over my scar for three months to keep my scar flat and smooth.
I'de like to add that I have the highest respect and thanks to my phenomenol surgeon Mrs CC Kat and her team who have done my lock and glue tummy tuck with lipo', even though It's been tough I can already see a huge positive difference by removing my disgusting midrif and odd fat hips.
I have posted a pic of my tummy at my dressing change yesterday.
I hobbled though to the nurses room and she helped me on to a reclining couch and helped me take off my binder and started to remove my bulky dressing and clean my wounds. I was dredding looking, what if it didn't look right, or what if my belly button wasn't in the middle? I hesitated and at first didn't want to look at my stomach but I took a look which revealed a proper belly button and a long low scar just below my bikini line. The nurse told me my belly button and scar both have dissolving stitches which was a relief because I didn't want her to have to start tugging and my wounds.
What a relief I can see a huge difference already in my tummy it looked like it wasn't my tummy, even though it's still swollen and looks battered and marked and scarred from the incisions it's flatter and smoother already and I have a lovely belly button.
I do have some pitted dimples that have appeared but apparently these a totally normal, it's where my surgeon has stitched the skin to the muscles with dissolving stitches and these will smooth out over time.
I have one more week of the binder and the dressings then I can swap my binder for my own high waisted firm support pants and take off my dressing and use a surgical tape which I have to apply over my scar for three months to keep my scar flat and smooth.
I'de like to add that I have the highest respect and thanks to my phenomenol surgeon Mrs CC Kat and her team who have done my lock and glue tummy tuck with lipo', even though It's been tough I can already see a huge positive difference by removing my disgusting midrif and odd fat hips.
I have posted a pic of my tummy at my dressing change yesterday.