New Tummy....Here I Come! - Winnipeg, MB

Well, today is 2 weeks post op. I am still feeling pretty good, but now am having wierd sensations in my tummy. I am chalking it up to the healing process. In a week I can start to wean myself off the binder and I can ditch the granny bra (as seen in my pictures!)in ten days! All in all, I would have to say having children hurt worse than this did. And I am glad that this has been a good experience. Sorry it took so long to post pictures, I wanted to wait until the stiches came out of the belly button. My husband is now weirded out by it. I can't explain it but I can see why!

Its done!!! YAY!!! I cannot believe its been a week. I haven't had a chance to sit down and form a thought in the past week, but now the husband is back to work and kids are in school and the house is quiet! The surgery went well and when I woke up I was feeling no pain! I was given morphine all night (I stayed overnight in the hospital) and they made sure I was very comfortable. Had a cathater in place and that was removed the next day. Didnt bother me, just felt odd. The next day (wednesday) they had me out of bed and shuffeling around. Felt good just to get moving again. Went home Wednesday night and took some percocet for pain. Thursday and Friday I laid in bed except for going to a Dr. appt to get a bra put on. I also had the drains at this point and they would stay in until Monday. Drains for the breasts came out when I went home from the hospital. All and all, it was a good weekend. I didnt do much and that was fine with everyone. The pain was managable and only until Sunday did I realize why the pain was still there. What I thought was percosets was actually Tylenol 3's and vise versa. Walmart had mixed up the lables. I was advised to switch from the percosets to T-3's and when i popped (what I understood to be T-3's) 2 of them they knocked me flat on my butt!!! Needless to say, I am sticking to nothing but T3 and now that is few and far between. I did notice last night that I am swelling like crazy and it hurts. I have had my BM and am taking fiber suppliments too. I think it may have been restraunt food thats making me bloat. Lots of fluids and water today! I will post pictures later today!

Well, tomorrow is the big day and I can't say I'm not nervous!!! I have cleaned the house top to bottom, laundry is all caught up and I have told my kids that they will have to pull thier own weight around the house. I didn't worry about meals as my husband does a lot of the cooking. We will be moving a TV into the bedroom where I will be camped out! I am so ready for this!!!! Wish me luck!