Yasss! Tummy Tuck and Lipo w/ Salama! Aventura, FL

Hey dolls! It's been awhile since my last update. I just came back from a girls trip to Haiti and I was happy to walk around sans compression garment for a few hours. I still swell up pretty bad but this is the first time I could go a full day without it and then wear it at night for bedtime. My scar has raised a bit but I haven't been consistent with the silicone tape. I started wearing it religiously again and my scar is starting to flatten out. I still feel tight in the abdomen and sore after a long day. I'm still pretty swollen SMH but Im confident it'll get better over the next few months. The swelling in my flanks have noticeably gone down but above and below my belly button is where I swell up. Still tender in my lipo areas (they have a burning sensation when pressed, pretty sure it's nerves). But other than that I can get around easily and I'm looking to start exercising lightly soon. Keep you posted!

Hey dolls! Two things I wanna stress. 1.) So I have to say I love Eilyn the massage therapist at Salama’s office. She's super sweet and thoughtful. Not only is she massaging my swell hell away but she agreed to meet me on Saturday (NYE) to remove my left drain if I was outputting 25ccs or less. You see, the Wed before NYE I was at 30ccs... she was like, you're probably gonna be at 25ccs by the weekend and I'd hate for you to celebrate new years with your drains still in. And sure enough, she was right. On Saturday I texted her and we met at the office in the morning. She removed my drain and also removed my steri strips and cleaned up my incision. Which brings me to 2.) DO NOT put the brown silicone tape on until at least 4 weeks post op. My incision was still in the healing phase cause I had scabs still. She put on the tape and when I removed it 3 days later my skin lifted by my incision. It wasn't too bad and has now healed on its own but it was scary cause I thought my incision split. For the past few days I've been massaging my incision with tea tree oil and my scabs are coming off and my skin is peeling a bit. But it clearly shows I'm still in the healing phase. I texted Salama to inform him and he told me to wait another week. I think by next weekend I'll be good to start the silicone tape. Other than that, still wearing my garment all day... my lipo areas are still tender... I'm now experiencing muscle spasms more frequently so my boyfriend bought me an electric heating pad which helps relax the muscles. I'm still slightly hunched over but have more energy. My Fitbit steps were around 2K steps around surgery time and is now around 5.5K. I'm hopeful in a couple more weeks it'll be up even more. I return to work on Tuesday amd told everyone all meetings need to be by my desk so I don't have to walk all over the place (we have a pretty long corporate office lol). So that's about it. Posted a pic of my incision so far. I'm really happy with the placement of it and how it's looking so far. I know it's not even close to what it will look like completely healed. Until next time dolls!