Survived my full TT with MR! **New Pics!**- Clinton Township, MI

2 Weeks Post Op tomorrow!
I am feeling really good and am able to do more and more without getting sore or tired. Still feel swollen especially by the end of the day but even that is getting noticably better. Just posted a few new bikini pics! I'm so excited with my results! I tried on a different bikini last night...the one in my preop pics...and it looked horrible and didn't cover the incision at all...I was really discouraged...then I remembered this black one that I had bought awhile ago (hard to remember since they have never seen the light of day!) I tried it on this morning and was really happy with what I saw in the mirror...finally! My hips still seem really swollen right where the incision ends...Not that thrilled with that...but my PS said that will go down eventually when swelling goes down. He also said my hips are my hips...and maybe I just didn't notice them until now with my stomach more contoured. Ok...whatever! I don't go back to see my PS for 2 more weeks....he said I can then stop wearing the binder if I want...and just maybe sleep in it or where spanx or a tight tank instead but only if I want to. Yeah!

Post Op Day 9: Feeling great! I am able to stand up straight about 90%....I do pretty well when up moving around...but after I sit or lay down for awhile, I have a hard time standing up straight and am quite hunched. It goes feels so tight in the area between my BB and the incision..it feels like that's where it is the tightest and like it will just rip open! I can actually laugh now without it killing my ab muscles. That's been nice! ;) I feel like my hips are really swollen...more so than the front of my tummy...it looks like my right hip is really bulging...right where the incision ends. It is super swollen so I'm really hoping it goes down and then my incision will look lower. I haven't taken any pain meds for the last couple of days and am feeling pretty good. I already have a love/hate relationship with this damn binder. I can only take it off to shower or wash it. I then have to put it right back on, where it all day and night....when it is off it feels so good...but I feel naked and unsupported without it.

Post op Day 5: Today was my first post-op appt and it went great! I was really nervous to finally see my tummy uncovered but I was very pleasantly surprised by how flat it was!! He asked me to track my fluid in my drains....when I gave him the sheet he said wow and was very impressed by how little I was draining. He said he would typically wait til Thursday to remove them but he would pull them today instead! I was ecstatic! He said because I didn't have much fat in my abdomen and he removed just skin really it makes it so I didn't need drains as long. I go for my next appt. not until next Monday. He said I am progressing really nicely and be sure to not do any heavy lifting....(ie. 32 lb 2 yr old!) or overdo it or I may then need to have fluid removed with a needle....umm no thanks! Let me tell you....having the drains removed was so painful! Especially the right side....I felt an intense burning pain way up in the middle of my stomach...he said where the tube want up to. Man it killed but subsided after a few min. Good thing I had saved one violin and took it 1 hr before...imagine if I hadn't! All other reviews I've read none else seems to think that part hurts....not me !! I am taking a shower finally in a little bit and will hopefully take a pic with binder off. I am only to take binder off to shower. Oh and I am walking even straighter today! All in all a good day.