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Day 24 post op: Breast Lift (laser bra) and Tummy Tuck (Fluer de lis)
UPDATED FROM liftedandtucked
18 days post
Day 18 Post Op: Well the it's the next morning...
WORTH IT$16,000
Day 18 Post Op: Well the it's the next morning after my first day back to work and I'm none worse for wear. I feel about like I do in the mornings, sore and tight until I reach for the tylenol and down a couple and give it the fifteen minutes to work before even getting out of bed. Still sleeping on my mountain of pillows and actually really enjoying that. I may be sleeping better than ever in this position. I still sleep with a fresh ice bag wrapped in a thin towel on my tummy all night long and feel it really makes a difference.
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Replies (5)
June 30, 2012
Oh my gosh jacklin, those drains are our nemesis aren't they? Better to have them to drain it out though than to keep it in I suppose. My final drain is finally slowing down. It never did go to clear fluid though like the other one did before it slowed to nothing and they pulled it.
June 30, 2012
I inboxed you something. It's insane that we're dealing with drainage at this point! Oh well. Doc predicts Monday will be the day. I have my doubts. Good luck and check your messages. :)
June 30, 2012
I have been posting every day here since surgery but just noticed that nothing past post op day 18 has posted, however the title of my new post each day did update; just not all the writing that I submitted. So gosh I've been getting up early before work and logging my experience for nothing. Plus I don't have any of it written anywhere else so it's disappointing that I don't have it any longer. There must be a glitch in real self somewhere. But anyways, I guess this is my last update on my daily count down unless I put it just in the title since for some reason that does update.
June 30, 2012
LOL!!!!! I just found your story and read it, and can I just say that I feel like I love you? In a LOL sisterly way that is! You are FANTASTIC on so many levels, thank you for your whit, humor, insight, revelations, and your story. PLEASE post before pics so we can truly appreciate your changes, you deserve so much credit! God bless you! And Happy Healing!
June 30, 2012
Thank you wrecking balls! I loved posting, but my posts aren't coming through anymore. I've been doing it the same way I've done it prior to post op day 18 but for some reason the words are not coming through. Until real self resolves that I'm not able to update my profile as the days go by. I miss updating. :) I had a pre op picture on there before but just recently took it off because it was so hideous that I was afraid I someone may see it and die of fright so felt it just best to delete it. ;)
July 1, 2012
Well I have heard back from real self and it appears that I may have gone over the character limit and that is why my latest posts have not come through. Apparently I'm only the second person to have ever done that. Leave it to be to have gotten so gabby that my word-smithing got me into trouble. ;) They will try to give me a part two and link them so that the "rest of the story" can be told; in other words, my addiction to updating can continue to run rampant. I wonder if there is twelve step program for addiction to real self? Look out Facebook and Pinterest, you have competition!
May 12, 2015
Just came across your story and loved the way you detailed your experience. Hope all is well with you.
UPDATED FROM liftedandtucked
17 days post
I have this haunting memory. I can hear my...
I have this haunting memory. I can hear my anesthesiologist saying to me as I was getting onto the operating table, "You will not even remember that we had this conversation", and I'll be krikey, he is right! I don't know what was said before or after that, because I was out of it after that. IT's funny that I can recall him saying the sentence "you will not remember we had this conversation" and yet nothing of what conversation he was talking about which would have occurred prior to that sentence. It's driving me crazy. I sure hope I did not say something inappropriate like "why do all you anesthesiologists look like you just stepped off of the pages of GQ or something?!". I have often thought this to myself in the past, and the one I had this time around was no exception. I sure hope I did not say that out loud whist climbing onto the operating table. What I do recall is that when I was wheeled down to the operating room, I then had to get off of the guernie and walk into the operating room and get onto the operating table and I remember saying "but I can't do that because my gown is open in the back", and then the good looking anesthesiologist says to me that he will hold it closed for me. I do remember thinking to myself, "but buddy you are the reason I am weirded out about my hospital gown being open in the back and now you are going to be holding it shut for me???" Oh the humiliation. LOL But I am certain I did NOT say that out loud.. I sure would love to know what I DID say though, that lead him to remark that I would not remember having had that conversation......
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Replies (5)
June 25, 2012
Lifted, You are one ingenius & strong lady! Have a great day back!
June 25, 2012
Have a good first day back at work, lifted. Tomorrow is my big day to get tucked!!!
June 25, 2012
Doylestown, It's showtime! Wishes for sweet dreams, smooth surgery, & a speedy recovery :) Happy healing!
June 25, 2012
Thanks you so much !
Right now my hubby is "taking a nap"..! ..as I sit here wishing the hours away! No fair... Wondering if I should have dinner tonite or just some clear broth. Any suggestions?
Right now my hubby is "taking a nap"..! ..as I sit here wishing the hours away! No fair... Wondering if I should have dinner tonite or just some clear broth. Any suggestions?
June 25, 2012
Hey just wanted to say I also had my surgery done in colubus by dr. Donaldson I live almost 2 hours away too. I am po op day 13 today and like you I have to go back to work on day 16 and that worries me as I work in a factory an stand for 8 hours a day. I can't believe you made that drive all by yourself I have not done that and don't want to do it yet.....u go girl I am a sissy....lol hope your first day back to work goes great for you good luck!!!!
June 25, 2012
Oh my gosh I don't know how I could return that soon if I had to be on my feet for eight hours. I sure hope you are able to do it. The first day back today was a rough one for me and I'm at a desk all day. Please be careful. :)
June 25, 2012
Hope your day back to work was a great one and not to stressful for you. :)
June 25, 2012
It was good, I got a lot done. :) It was a bit on the rough side; but at least the first day back is under my belt now. :) Thank you wonj!
June 25, 2012
Lifted, you did it! Again I say, you are one tough cookie :) but why oh why did I need to read about the anesthesiologist? I am so incoherent when awakened and not nice at all. Sleepwalking. Sleeptalking. Conversations! My parents knew this as do my kids. I really am worried about the awakening after 6.5 hrs under. I think I will apologize in advance!
June 26, 2012
LOL That is too funny Shelly! I would love to hear half of what those anesthesiologist are privy to hearing in a day's work. I'm sure they get some dooozies. If you are going to do it, be the doooozie! LOL
UPDATED FROM liftedandtucked
17 days post
Well I am now home from work and got the first day...
Well I am now home from work and got the first day of work under my belt. It was rough, I'm not gonna sugar coat it. I can't imagine if I had to do a job that required more than desk work and going back this soon. I am pretty tired tonight and there were a couple of moments through my day when I got really light headed and that was when I was sitting. I have gotten through all my work emails today and some of the stacks of work waiting for my return. I was glad to see the end of the day show up. :) I am home with my feet up and drinking cucumber lemon water and getting ready to grab ye olde ice bag. I survived it though! Yay!! I was glad to have a bit of a cooler day here in Ohio and a bit breezy so a big oversized summer sweater and some of my larger pants that I had not stored away yet, were able to hide the two drains and binder pretty nicely, but I was no where close to being able to stand up straight for more than ten or twenty seconds at a time so I still looked like a troll doll shuffling around the office. LOL
Hopefully each day will get better though.
Happy Healing!
Hopefully each day will get better though.
Happy Healing!
Wow Jacklin, I may end up being a four weaker on the right side for sure, and hope it slows down soon but yes I agree I would rather have it in if its going to continue to drain. I have found that the most active drain time for me is after I have gotten up in the morning and am upright, then take my binder off for a shower and at the moment I put it back on, the pumping begins. It is like while I sleep its all pooling to my back area and then I stand up, and gravity brings it on down while having the binder off for about twenty minutes during shower time. As soon as I bind myself back up, whoooooooosh it goes. Maybe I can use that process to get that stuff drained out a little sooner if I can find a way in which to repeat that process more than once a day eh? LOL
Well back to work I go. Have a great day you guys!
Went to the Dr. Today and my drain had 32 ccs in it! Omg! He's hoping it'll come out Monday. I doubt it. Yesterday I had 73 ccs. Ugh!