8 Week PO, Doc Apt, and SWELLING

Adding some pics of the jiggle. Anyone else like this?!?!?!?!?

Continued in Part Two

Tomorrow marks 7 weeks since my surgery and to be honest, I am disappointed and a little angry with my overall results.

The space above my belly button is still soft, still seems not connected to my abdomen, and even hangs over my exercise pants. This area is where lipo was done so I continue to cross my fingers its swollen and taking a long time to heal. I have stretch marks there so I am hoping it is not going to be an end result.

Went out the other day for a couple hours wothout my binder. By the time I was home, my pants were so tight and my stomach was jiggly. It seriously looked like I never had a tummy tuck done and I got very worried. I emailed my doc and he said that I shouldn't worry. He said the skin does a lot and then settles down and he'll look at it at my next appointment (Oct 8).

I am still wearing my binder and even my girdle about 95 percent of the time, even at work.

My boobs are getting softer but are losin their volume and seem to ge getting flatter, especially my left breast. The left boob had the more severe bout of ptosis which the doc is hoping to fix with just implants. I really wanted volume and it seems that I just have a larger sagging boob now.

I cant wait to go back to the docs to see what his opinon and explanation are because I am just not too pleased right now. The husband says my boobs look great but they are not what I wanted. I want VOLUME!!!

I have started running again slowly and running with boobs sure makes the boys on the bike path look. I did 2.5 mile the other day and then tried more the next but only made it just past a mile. I guess I should remember I'm not even 2 months post op and things take time. Its just so frustrating!

I know this post isnt my usual up beat/yay for my results post but I'm just so damn disappointed in with my no volume-boob and pant overhang. I had these surgeries to get rid of these problems and it seems all I did was put some duct tape on them.

In my last update, I stated I was going to try the ol' marble in the bellybutton trick. Well, apparently my bellybutton is just too small for that. I am happy however, that it is not some gigantic black hole-like thing because that would suck balls a lot more than having a little bellybutton. So, I ended up rolling up some guaze and cramming my bellybutton with that instead, and then securing it with a large bandage. The gauze was kept hostage for just 24 hours and by the white/reddish discharge that my bb produced following the gauze's release, my bb was anything but pleased. It was red and irritated and it seemed pretty pissed off at me. Now, being that this is my body I am talking about and I have a very high gross-out tolerance, I took it upon myself to smell the discharge (you are allowed to gag) and thankfully, it had no odor. Large round of applause please.

Needless to say, that is that last time this girl is going to put anything into her bellybutton unless it is a q-tip to clean and/or lotion it as my PS said to do. Moral of the story, gauze inside a bellybutton is a no go.

I worked 13.5 hours yesterday (desk duty remind you) and by the time I returned home, I was swollen pretty good. PRETTY FARKIN' GOOD (aka HUGE!). Aunt Flow arrived this morning so I am attributing her return to this large amount of swelling. Also, as it turns out, my favorite Bucktard's (Starbucks) barista is also a medical assistant at plastic surgeon's office in my town. Aaaaand she told me today (as she made my drink no less and because I have a big mouth and told everyone including my favorite barista I was getting some nip and tuck done) that, 6 weeks is the maximum amount of swelling because of the scarring going on. I repeat, 6 weeks is the max level of swelling!!! Anyone else hear of this???

Today I went dress shopping for my little negative a thousand percent body fat friend's birthday party. I went to Forever 21 and hunted for a black (for the slimming effect) dress with sleeves (Beach town in September = 50 degrees in the evening). I did not find a black dress with sleeves but did find a cute lil salmon-colored number (see pic) that I don't think looks too darn bad. My boobs look good sized and I can wear my binder with it. Holler!!!!! Mind you, I'm even swollen trying this thing on and it didn't look bad so this is a complete win in my book.

My right boob is a bit painful today. This is the crap I don't get. Why is it that one day, my boob feel awesome and life is good and then the next day, my boob hates me and feels like it is trying to get out of my body via my nipple scar (which btw, is not that bad in my opinion, thank you Dr. Common's!)?? Are our bodies changing so rapidly that things go from feeling fab to bad and vice versa?