Mrs. Conehead

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• Posted to August Tummy Tucks! on 17 Aug 2011

  Day 22 PO and I'm still in the recliner. I tried sleeping on my side in the bed a few days ago but it was too uncomfortable. I woke up every hour or so wondering if I was damaging my incisions (I also had a breast lift). Laying on my side hurt my tummy tuck incision and my chest. So, while the rest of the family is piled up in MY nice comfortable bed, I'm chillin' in the recliner watching Skinemax every night by myself.

• Posted to August Tummy Tucks! on 17 Aug 2011

  PO days 3 and 11 were really hard for me emotionally. I think day 3 was bad because I just couldn't get comfortable and it made me really upset. Day 11 started out with tears of joy because I was so happy with how I looked in the outfit I had on. Then, out of nowhere, the happy tears turned into sad tears and I cried for almost the whole day. I was trying to do laundry and our washing machine was acting up and it totally made me crazy. I ended up starting a huge fight with my husband because I felt like the crappy washing machine was a metaphor for our relationship... Fortunately, we went to our friends' house that evening and my mood lifted. By the time I woke up the next morning, all was right with the world... I agree with Holidaymom. The best advice is to get out of the house. Go out in public and shuffle around in the land of the living.

• Posted to August Tummy Tucks! on 11 Aug 2011

  I vote for the recliner, too. I'm still sleeping in it because it's so easy to get up and down. Even though I feel OK overall, pushing myself up off of the bed is still a pain in the butt (and the gut)... I also used a wooden bar stool in the shower. Something about taking my binder off for the first 2 showers made me really shaky, so I definitely needed to sit down. I folded up a towel and put it on top of the stool so the seat would not be slippery. I also hung a long strip of fabric around my neck and safety pinned my drains to it so I wouldn't have to hold them.

• Posted to August Tummy Tucks! on 11 Aug 2011

  I definitely had a change in food tastes. Almost everything just tasted... wrong. The only two things that tasted OK to me were chocolate brownies and chocolate milk. I swear, it was just like being in my third trimester all over again. I shuffled to the kitchen at 2am every morning to stand in front of the refrigerator and guzzle chocolate milk. I am PO day 16 now. It took about 2 weeks for things to get back to normal. Now my appetite is back with a vengeance. Yippee.

• Posted to Breast Lift and Reduction Survival Guide on 8 Jul 2011

  Hey Kimmers! Thanks for the supply list. Where do you get the surgical bras from? My doctor mentioned that I would have to wear one but I was so freaked out at the time of my consultation (I'm not a fan of having a conversation with someone if I'm the only one naked) that it did not even occur to me to ask him where I would get the bra from... I guess the standard surgical bra color is just plain white, huh? No black lace or leopard print?