“Just Want to Feel Beautiful Again - Wisconsin”

Mother of two and they have pretty much destroyed my stomach. I am jsut plain tired of wearing girdles and I just want to wear clothes with out having to wear anything underneath them

Updated on 4 Jan 2012:
I think that I have been scaring myself. I stopped in the PS office to ask some questions. I feel a tad bit better. I go on either friday or monday to pay and to schedule a date. I am so happy and anxious at the same time I feel one step closer to my goal. I am so glad that my PS is a woman... Later TTuckers and pray for me and I will pray for you! Happy Recovering!!

Updated on 8 Jan 2012:
As of tomorrow I am one step closer to my operation.. i am so excited and so scared all at the same time...ugh I know that everything will be okay it just my nerves...I am going to try ans lose 7 pounds but my operation which will be on march 1st(hopefully). As always I will be praying for all the TTuckers and please pray for me.

As I get closer to the surgery date I will post before and afters!

Updated on 12 Jan 2012:
Went yesterday to pay the first half.... there was a hickup, I admit I was pretty frustrated. But I do have a surgery date it is 3/13/12. I am so excited and so scared all at the same time...I just cant wait to be on the other side of this whole process.... I am so excited to finally wear a pair of pants with a girdle but so scared of the wholw being put under and the whole though of surgery... but as always my fellow TTuckers pray for me and I will pray for you.
Happy Recovering!!

Updated on 18 Jan 2012:
Well after a week of issues, I paid the first half and I am really excited and kind of nervous about the procedure... My date is 3/13/12 and with my pre-op on 3/7/12. I have a goal of losing 10 pounds before then which gives me about a little under two months to do so. I just can not wait to be on the other side of this journey. As always I will be praying for all of the TTuckers and please pray for me.

Updated on 1 Feb 2012:
Well hello my t tuck family

Today was so great. I paid the last half of my payment and moved up my surgery date. My new date is feb 18 that just gives me a couple of weeks to get things ready. I am so nervous about the whole being put under thing but I know I will be okay though will post photos today of my "before". As always pray for me and I will do the same for you all.

Updated on 2 Feb 2012:
As promised here are some pictures from two weeks pre-op

Updated on 4 Feb 2012:
Been trying to post my pictures with no avail ... My pre-op is in 4 days and I am so excited and nervous at the same time....my emotions go from super excited to super scared and nervous all at the same time. But I know this is the right thing for me. I will be so happy the day that I can just wear jeans and a white t-shirt with no girdles. As always I am praying for all of you and please pray for me. I like to think that this forum is a type of sisterhood so it is imPerativw that we have to be there for one another.

Updated on 10 Feb 2012:
Well my pre-op physical went ok. It is just surreal that in a week the thing that makes me so insecure will be fixed. That all I will have to do is just throw on some jeans and a t shirt. That I will not have to buy a sIze higher or buy my pants in long so that I can pull them all the way up to my belly button. The Only thing that I am a little nervous about is the whole being put under. But I think I will be okay. I carry all of my sisters that are going through this journey with me in my heart and I pray for us all.

Updated on 17 Feb 2012:
Well ladies today was the big day! I was so nervous, I was so scared about being put under but everything was ok. I got to the hospital at six am went back at 730. That is all I remember. I swear I kept drifting in and out all day until 3pm. Then I came home. I can't believe that it really did happen and that I am on the other Side of this journey. I'm not really swollen yet but I know between tomorrow and Sunday I will be I have not seen my stomach yet I hope everything turns out ok.

Updated on 18 Feb 2012:
Day 1 I am so much pain I have a pain pump and it is not working I feel smaller and the compression garment is slightly to big. I hope that this is the right thing that I have done because the pain is intense. My muscles hurt all I can do us just lay down please my fellow sisters please pray for me and I promise to pray for you.