Tummy Tuck: Stories

I'm sorry I'm just now responding to your last post. It's been a crazy week. In a way, I'm looking forward to having to be still and rest, but I really don't see how that's possible! I will have to listen to my body!

How are you doing? You feeling ok? It's totally understandable to get overwhelmed with emotions and sometimes our thoughts try to get the best of us. But this too shall pass! Think about the positive end result. Sometimes when I get wound up, or down, I try to force myself to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. And it may be a goofy analogy, or maybe I'm just preaching to myself (cause sometimes I sure do need it!) - but whatever we magnify is what we see the most. I hope this note finds you doing more than well and in a place where all this is magnified is all the good stuff in your life!
I'd love to hear how you've been!
;) Lauren

UGH! That doesn't sound pleasant! I'm wondering if I'll be squeemish in having to deal with the drains. Sometimes looking at pics of peoples fresh incisions makes me nearly ill! And I made the mistake of watching 5 minutes of the surgery on YouTube and nearly passed out.

So, you're 9 days post-op with 1 drain remaining. Surely it'll be coming out in the next couple of days!

Yes, I thought the same thing about Dr. L before my procedure, too. I saw that he was one of the top surgeons in Milwaukee, but seriously, if you'd see what he did to my nose, you'd never believe it. And yes, he was a total jerk afterwards. He basically just shrugged his shoulders and said that this was just the way I healed, as if the whole thing was somehow my fault (which lead me to carry that guilt for 3 1/2 years....until last week when one of the surgeons I saw told me there was no way this was my fault...it was a crappy nose job done by a hack of a surgeon...what a relief!). Dr. L never took responsibility for any of it. At one point he said something like "we may have left it a little higher on this side", and I was like umm, "we"? I was the patient, I didn't do anything--he did the surgery.

I thought his nurse, Sandy, was fantastic, and I wouldn't expect her to say anything but what she did say to you. And she's right, there will always be some people you can't please. But seriously, my nose looks ridiculous and no one can seem to figure out what he was trying to do in there (the other surgeons I saw). If I can figure out a way to send you a picture, I will, but I refuse to post them here, it's too embarrassing. At least until after I get it fixed, then I'd like to post them for everyone to see, so no one else goes through what I did. The problem with that, though, is that Dr. L can just remove them from his reviews (I'm assuming he was the one who removed my negative review...who else would care?) and no one will see them anyway. I wish I could find a way around that.

At any rate, I do apologize again for dragging you into my story--that was unnecessary. Please do not worry about your results based on my results--it's like comparing apples and oranges :). And as long as Dr. L continues to treat you well, don't let it get to you that he was rude to me. I can only assume that his bad attitude towards me came about because he knew my results were crappy and he didn't know how to deal with that. He couldn't get rid of me fast enough after the surgery, which was fine with me because I wouldn't let him near me again if my life depended on it!

Don't worry...you'll be fine :).

For clarification purposes:

The statement above, "it was a crappy nose job done by a hack of a surgeon" are my (Stenobabe) opinion only and not the words of any other surgeon.

Oh no!! I am SO sorry to hear that! It actually kind of scares me because I have not even seen my final result yet! What happened? Why was it a terrible job? Was he nice about things? I am still very much in the worrying stages so that does not make me feel very good to hear:( hopefully you can let me know answers to some of the questions I have for you!

Hey thank you SO much for commenting on my little story:) It's now the end of day 6 and I'm approaching one whole week since the surgery as of tomorrow morning already! I have to admit, for me, it has been a crazy emotional rollercoaster that I'm sure is not over yet! I went to the doctor to get the drains removed today but unfortanately only got the disfunctional one removed because I'm still putting just a tad too much blood out into the working drain...he said I'm close but to come back Friday to get drain 2 removed. If he took it out today I could be risking needing him to remove fluid with a syringe down the road a little so I guess this is the better alternative. You said you're looking for a PS in Wisconsin? Are you from here? To answer your other question he is constantly doing surgeries every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I believe. Tuesday and Thursdays are his office/consulation days. I scheduled mine just a few weeks after my consultation. You should look him up and check his website out...he is a very well respected doctor according to everything I have uncovered about him. By the way, I have had almost no "pain" this entire recovery period so far. Keep in mind I did NOT get any muscle work but still had a full tummy tuck and other than being so out of commission and creating so much unnecessary anxiety for myself, I can't really complain about the healing process. I would love to answer anymore questions you might have or just have a chat here and there (gosh knows I have a little extra time on my hand these days)!