11 months post op! New Pics! Had to get it from Salama bc I didn't get it from my mama!

Well, this is the first official step to my journey to a better me. I am here to better the physical me. I personally feel very in touch with myself and have always, unfortunately, always felt that was just jipped genetically. Until, now...I just settled (very unlike me) with the fact that I was the way I was, and despite the fact that I've always been active would always feel this way about my body.

I've always been one to take initiative in changing things that I wasn't so previously happy with in every other aspect of my life...except when it came to the physical me, I had no choice...that is, until my discovery of BBL. I'm a young professional, am very detail oriented, and have always appreciated intricacies of the female body. I've been fortunate enough to have survived life's tribulations and turn my life around from some pretty unfortunate circumstances and have always felt that my body never matched my spirit. So now...this surgery gives me the opportunity to contribute to the process of bettering the physical me.

What I wish I knew beforehand???? IF....I'm actually going to be able to make it throughout the recovery period. You see, I am in sales...a road warrior...so do much of my business driving around in my car or sitting at my desk managing my administrative needs of my work. The recovery portion of the procedure worries me more than anything else. I have an extremely high tolerance for pain...so I've already accepted and am embracing the fact that there is no doubt I will undoubtedly experience being uncomfortable.

AND...my boyfriend is a med school grad. Not quite a practicing doctor...and loves me for who I am (or so he says), says he's supportive...but refuses to assist me in moving forward with this. I initially asked him to be a co-signer for my procedure since he would be a benefactor. He agreed he'd do it, but has been real shadey about moving ahead with this. What he doesn't realize, is that it has taken quite a bit of self pride to even share with him my true feelings about my body. I'm an extremely private person and quite frankly have become a bit sour at his lack of support. So...I've decided to leave him out of the process and will admit, that I am a bit sour about it..since I feel he is in his way trying to control what I want to do by not actually supporting me. Words are far more different than action.