35 Yr Old Mother of Two, Short, Diastasis Recti, Extra Skin - Albuquerque, NM

I have been on this site for a year just reading reviews and I think I am ready to do this for myself. A little about me. I am just 5 feet tall, if I have a slight heel on my shoes. I have two wonderful children who were fairly large despite barely gaining pregnancy weight.

My daughter was somewhat large-8 lbs 2 weeks early. My son was breech and we decided to have a version done where he was flipped to have him naturally. He sort of got stuck sideways for a bit but we finally got him flipped. Afterwards I was excited my son was a natural vaginally birth but the process had destroyed my ability muscles.

For years people would ask me how far along I was for our third child or random people would come up to my stomach and feel touch it like a baby was there. I would usually answer with some sarcastic comment like "oh it likes you, did you feel it kick?" Or I would say "thank you, what do you think of the name calamity or decay?" After a while of messing with people I would tell them the truth, I wasn't pregnant, just fat!

People would usually be so impressed I had a good attitude they felt I was OK with it. Truly it was a humiliating and depressing situation. A couple Dr's. Suggested I get my hernia fixed and possibly the diastasis recti, but a general surgeon doesn't remove extra skin which I had wanted so I just avoided the surgery. I absolutely hate needles and have a huge phobia of them, to the point both my children were born naturally without iv.

Well at a dinner party for my husbands work one of his employees was super happy to see I was pregnant again, of course I wasn't. He felt so horrible humiliating the bosse's wife he couldn't stop trying to fix the situation. Finally I just left the dinner. My husband came home and told me I was beautiful and strong and that it broke his heart to see me so sad. He had gathered money for me to get the full tummy tuck if I wanted. He said I didn't have to, but if I wanted to he wanted to do that for me. Seriously, what kind of guy does that? He's a keeper.

His sweetness and giving personality did not change my phobia of needles though so I continued to avoid surgery. Then I needed an emergency appendectomy and I actually managed to deal with an i.v. so I feel I can handle a tummy tuck. Here I am on real self very grateful for everyone sharing their stories so I had a realistic expectation for all of this and I'm excited to see how the future will be. I will post more info as time goes by.

Well I have officially been scheduled for June 10. Somewhat excited, somewhat that omg feeling and somewhat terrified.

I went in on Friday to pay the balance before surgery which was due. Had to run to the bank and pull out money. I am a little bit frustrated because I had mentioned I would be coming to pay in cash and they offer a cash discount of 3%. I was excited to hear this, great perk! However, when I actually was going to pay I had put my $400 scheduling deposit over the phone on a credit card. Since I had already paid with a credit card I wan't able to get the 3%. So I needed to get more cash and pay in full. Not a huge deal, but I would have brought in the scheduling deposit in cash if I had known there was a discount. Just wanted everyone to ask about cash incentives before hand. This made me a little bit nervous because I don't know what else they had forgotten to tell me LOL.

I am also looking at renting a hospital bed and I need to get my prescriptions filled. I have a prescription for valium to take before hand since I have a phobia of needles. Has anyone taken valium before hand? I also had a prescription for Norco. I haven't really taken pain meds in the past because they make me sick. Has anyone had nausea taking Norco before? Is this an effective drug. Getting closer to surgery! June 10, crazy!