38 with 3 Kids, Partial Hysterectomy and Mommy Makeover Coordinated FINALLY - Austin, TX

Some pics from today and yesterday! First bikini in YEARS! I hope the thigh swelling goes down sooner than later--I paid a lot for that lipo! Lol

I'm better. These drains are still really holding me back but I feel a lot better. Changing clothes for pictures made me sooooo exhausted!

Can I just vent here a second? I really had no idea that the recovery for this was going to be so difficult. I'll be honest. I've only ever had a gall bladder removed, and that was laparoscopically (sp?!) and really no big deal at all. For some reason, cutting my entire abdomen in two, removing a huge diseased organ, as well as sucking tons of fat out, remodeling my boobs, and slicing off layers of skin didn't seem to me that I would be feeling so bad as I still am! I don't want to scare anyone, but I'm being very real. I wake up feeling like I'm in one of those magician's boxes where they cut the lady in half. I feel raw and sore. These drains coming out of my hips are sensitive to even a light breeze. If I lean forward my stomach burns, and if I lean back the lipo spots on my flanks ache. My thighs feel like I"m walking around with giant tennis balls rubbing together that I can't drop. I plie' around the house, hunching over and trying not to raise my arms too high. Can we talk about pooping? Its like some distant dream I keep trying to reach and once I do I'm just screaming in pain. I either am sitting and pooping my guts out or going days with a giant hard belly and no action at all. Maybe this is mostly from the hysterectomy? I have no idea. Would I do this again? I have no idea. Do I look skinnier? Yes. Do I feel hot? No way. Ask me in a week. I pray this vent sounds funny to me in a week. I pray these drains can come out soon. I hope I can poop on my own whenever I feel like I need to poop and not mark it in a calendar as a goal. I hope my boobs don't feel hard and tight and stuck high up on my chest. I never thought much about how your boobs can wobble around and move with you until they just didn't. Nips that stick straight out and aren't droopy and saggy are actually a little less comfortable without a bra, fyi. Things I didn't think about before this surgery. They say people go through a depression stage and I guess that i'm there? I'm mostly lonely because no one wants to bump into my drains or stomach, everyone takes my kids places so that I don't have to do anything, etc but I'm just bored and tired and in pain! Did you know percocet makes you ramble?