52 Year Old, Mother of Two - Full Tummy Tuck with Lipo of the Flanks!!! Baton Rouge, LA

My final countdown begins and 20 days and counting! I have really enjoyed the stories, pictures (before, during and after) those sharing their fears for the unknown, the battle with weight and quitting smoking in order to have the surgery, working extra to save the money to finally be where you want to be.

I am just like so many others and the struggles of dropping the weight, (down 50 since December 9, 2015) quitting smoking,(after 37 years) working non-stop to get extra money to pay cash for the surgery...my list goes on and on.

I have been so excited since I made this decision back in December 2015 to begin this journey and I told my husband what my goals were and I could never have done this without his love and support. I set my mind to it and this time I meant business and after over 15 years of marriage I finally broke down and told my husband just how much his lovely wife weighed :O) I knew he could never 100% understand my fears or excitement from reaching goal after goal if he didn't know where i began.

Once I had my goal set, i told him that I was going to have this surgery and what steps I needed to do to get there. Well fast forward, here I am on the final countdown!!! I have lost the weight...CHECK. I have quit smoking...DOUBLE CHECK...and now I am finally going to the flat side!

I will post a few before pictures....I will try to post some the day of and during recovery and give my experience of having this done. I have done so much reading and preparing and I am pretty much ready.

Stay turned for my final countdown ~~20 DAYS~~

I finished up my "recovery" room and packages are starting to arrive. I had a busy weekend "nexting"...I put a fresh coat of paint in the guest bedroom which will be my recovery room for the first two weeks. I will move my electric recliner (my bed for the first 2 weeks) and I have my table set up all waiting for the day of to finally arrive. I went shopping this weekend and bought a few things:

Two nightgowns - one that snaps up the front and the other zips
Boy shorts - so I don't have any pressure on the incision
Scaraway - two sizes
Bio-oil - two bottles
coco body butter
hand mirror ~ magnified so I can see the incision
Prescriptions all filled
Hot/cold pack

this weekend all the minor things like crackers for nausea etc.

Getting excited and before I know it, the 20th will be here!!!

I am so sorry I have not kept this up as I had initially intended but, I am from Baton Rouge, Louisiana and if you haven't been watching the news lately we, our City, has been the headliner for weeks now. We have had protests for over 6 days in a row and guess how happens to live in the neighborhood that is across the street from our Baton Rouge City Police Headquarters? Yeap, you got it right ...ME!!! Well, today I woke up with gunshots and policemen that were murdered. Helicopters have been blazing over my house for days and days and now this horrific crime.

So now that this is behind me or as much as I can put it behind me, I am ready for my countdown and my final few days to be here :O) I will post those pre pictures to have something to compare with and my measurements.