PETITE BOOTY- DR. AZURIN, Coral Springs FL

After 6 months of never ending research I decided Dr. Azurin is the surgeon for me.
My current weight is 120 (about 6lbs. over my norm) and height 5'2. My waist is already a 25" my flank/love handles are 34" so I am very misporpotioned. Dr. Azurin will be lipoing my flanks, lower back and possibly abdomen (yes what you read is true if there is loose skin he will not lipo). I may ask for outter thighs to be added when I'm there.
Dr. Azurin has A LOT of experience with slender women and I feel very confident in my choice. He DOES not ask his patients to gain weight before surgery and I love that! I'm not down with doctors that ask you to get unhealthy as you can before major surgery. A few well known docs asked me to gain 30-40lbs and stop cardio. Uh yeah ok buddy. Great advice. Not to mention if you gain weight before surgery plan to keep it on unless you want to lose that ass you just went thru hell to get with it!
It took about 3 weeks for my patient cordinator Lynne to get back to me but when she did the ball was rolling. I contacted them in June, wanted a date for August but he was booked till Oct. I am more than pleased with the customer service at Dr. Azurin's office. The hard part is I am traveling from CA to go see him so I have a lot of planning to do which is kind of giving me a heart attack! I look forward to hearing from the ladies who traveled as I have a ton of questions and details I have to start working on soon!

So here's my traveling situation: my mother in law will be traveling with me (flights are a small fortune since I'm covering both). The flight there is non stop (5hrs) which is nice but the flight back does have a layover in TX (travel time about 7hrs). I'm more than freaked out about the flight home since I will only be 8 days PO. But hey NO GUTS NO GLORY right?! Just remember to get up and move around as much as possible.
I will be flying in Sunday Oct. 6th and meeting with Dr. Azurin Monday the 7th and BOOM surgery the 8th!
Will be staying at the closest hotel which is the Courtyard Marriott. They give Dr. Azurin's patients get a corporate rate of $79.00 a night. I will be staying there from the 6th-9th. Be warned they do not have in room microwaves and you need to request a fridge. There is a bistro in the hotel where you can purchase meals from.
On the 9th I will be relocating to a hotel with a kitchenette on the beach located in Hillsboro Beach (about 30 min. from Dr. A's ofice). I thought that might be nice for my mother in law since she's never been to FL. The rates there were $92.00 a night.
So now I need to make rental car arrangements which isn't going to be as cheap as I orginally thought. All the travel cost is adding up fast.
AND poor Lynne I'm calling the office once or twice a week because the traveling has brought up a few dilemmas but they have been amazing over there!
I've also been buying a few supplies here and there but I'm not going crazy buying a bunch of crap I won't use. I will post a list of what I'm bringing later. It will be minimal.
Also Dr. Azurin doesn't reccomend all those massages right after surgery. I was told maybe a couple lymphatic massges when I'm a month post op. Can't remember what I was told exactly so I'll reinform on that later.
*adding one more before pic, can't wait for these love handles to be gone!

Received my paper work/packet from Dr. Azurin's office yesterday. Read through it and all of a sudden I was scared. I go to bed and literally had a nightmare about going through surgery and having terrible results:/ Ok brain stop messing with me! I have about 45 days left and will not be turning back!!!!!!!!

I can say I haven't really had time to be nervous about surgery until the packet arrived. I've been so busy planing the trip.

I changed my hotels becuase I came across a website called homeaway.com where people rent/sublet their homes or condos. I found a beautiful house 20 min. away from my doctor office and 5 min. from the beach which will be nice for my mother in law who will be taking care of me. Girls this is a great option and my nerves are much more relaxed knowing I have great accomodations.

I have a couple weeks to do labs, EKG and get the sign off from my PCP.....it's becomming real.

I have most of my supplies which I will list soon. I'm kind of stressing on a back up stage 1 garment for when mine is in the wash. I was told by Lynne not to even worry about garments yet and I won't even know what size to get until after surgery. It's crazy how much added cost there is to this surgery even after paying for the procedure. It's adding up crazy fast! If I'm able to add my stomach and outter thighs that will be an additional $600 an area! Guess I'm to the point where I just gotta laugh at it, the money is gonna go and it's go quick so be prepared. Cha ching! My next post I will list my supplies and break my costs down. Hope everyone is having a lovely week.