Pre op - Surgery is scheduled for April 18

I still don’t have much energy and sometimes I don’t have much pain and then other times I’m still having spasms in my butt cheek or back of my thighs. I’m trying not to take prescription pain meds much at all due to constipation, but I’ve had to take a half one, the last two nights at bedtime. Unfortunately, I still have one drain, it’s down to about 30 cc a day and I can’t wait to get it out. The incisions are healing, great and really haven’t hurt at all the whole time. I’m hoping that when the implants drop some, it will fill out the lower part of my butt bit although I do have realistic expectations and that I may need skin excision in six months recovery haven’t been near as bad as I expected although it’s not easy.

Well, recovery has definitely not been a walk in the park, but I’m managing. Sleeping is difficult and I’ve been having some aching in my butt cheeks and little spasms in the back of my thighs. I really feel like ice still helps quite a bit so I am up in the night changing ice packs every two or three hours. Constipation has been a struggle even using the stool softeners twice daily. I’ve had to use a suppository twice now overall, I don’t feel too bad. I get tired easily and can only stand for 10 or 15 minutes at a time before my legs start hurting. Still happy with the way things look, but I’m very curious to see the outcome when they drop into their final position. I had a postop visit yesterday, virtually and we decided that the right side drain needed to stay in longer as I still have about 60 cc of fluid draining daily , it is starting to slow down, though is more serous in nature now. I’m ready to get out of the house Don’t think I’m able to manage that yet

Today I went back to work. I work from home doing telemedicine/zoom visits and couldn’t really afford to be off work very long., so my husband built me this nice little podium so I could stand and do some visits or kneel on a cushion. I did about half standing and then half laying on my belly l, because my legs would get tired pretty quickly. I do feel like the pain has been much less today. I took some ibuprofen and tramadol earlier, but I would rate today’s pain at a three or four compared to 7/8 the past couple of days. The drain on the left really has nothing coming out of it and I want it out because it just gets in the way. However, the drain on the right still has quite a bit of output so I’m just going to leave it be for now. My butt cheeks still feel tight and swollen. Today my mom came over and got to see my butt for the first time since surgery . She is jealous and now she wants one. I inherited my flat saggy butt from her. Overall, I’m really just more tired than anything right now.