Mommy Makeover Post-op, Day 17

I hit the 3 week mark! Yeah!! I went to my PS for the 3 week visit, and I am having a reaction to the stitches. Great. Just one more thing on the list... So, he removed the remaning stitches, removed the blob of whatever was in my belly button, took off the remaining steri-strips, and my tt scar looks so much better! I am still having a lot of swelling as the day goes on, but I am very flat in the morning which is a great sign! I have also been increasing my walks in the evening, I am up to 3-3.5 miles, which feels great. I almost feel like I could run, but my PS said definitely not before 6 weeks, so I am being patient for a while longer. Does anyone know when we can start wearing normal bras? I am really starting to dislike my "grandma bra"!!

Day 17, I am feeling really good today. I had a bad day on Thursday, my 2 week mark, but my son had surgery in the morning, and it ran late due to complications in the surgery before hi. Poor guy, he was a trooper, but he was scheduled at 8:50, and they didn't et him in until almost noon! Sitting in regular chairs for that long did me in. I felt like I was hit by a bus the next day, and really couldn't do much. Today however, I am trying to walk out my ilius. I have been out twice today walking, and it keeps getting easier to stand up straighter. I can only hope that increasing my activity will help get my bowels moving. This is really starting to get annoying. I am taking so much laxitive each day, and it is still not moving. Blah! I talked with my surgeon on Wednesday when I got my drain removed, and he said for me to wait one more week and really increase my activity, but if it doesn't do anything on it's own, he will talk about some options with me. My surgeon used to be a trauma doctor, so I trust he knows what he is talking about, and I don't really want to think about the "options"! My husband took some more photos today, and I can tell that I am not flat due to my guts still being full :(, but on the positive note, it still looks a lot better then before! I am also having some swelling in my left breast, with a little bit of pain. I am just thinking that it may be dropping a little bit, and the right already did.

I wrote out a post the other day, but it never uploaded. Huh, that sucks. Anyway, I will try to sum it up. I feel like I turned the corner! It was on Monday, which I believe was about day 11. It is weird how it happens, but I just woke up, and felt like today is different. Don't get me wrong, I felt good before, but I just feel better. My drain really slowed down, I had a ton more energy, I was standing straighter, I even told my husband I was ready to drive again. I feel like I can do more, I don't need to sit and relax my stomach muscles as much as I have been. All in all, I just feel better! We also took some photos, and my husband put them side by side so that I could see how far I've come. All in all I am happy, but I feel like one of my sides got the memo of making a killer waist, but the other side didn't. I just feel a little off, and not symetrical. I am hoping that it is still due to some swelling, but I will just have to wait and see how it turns out. I am very happy that it is flat though!! Yeah!