51 Yrs. Old Remove 35 Year Old Baby Fat. Dallas, TX

I have had only one child and the fat after her birth has pooled on the bottom half of my stomach and I want to know what it looks like not to have fat changing the way my clothing is suppose to look. I am having my lower and upper abs, flanks and bra line. I expect to have a flat stomach, no more love handles and no back fat. I was told by the nurse that since I have fat with additional skin that I could have a lower lip or hanging skin left over - I am dreading this more than I am dreading the procedure.
I have been waiting a long time to afford Tumescent Laser Liposuction and I know no matter what the turn out I am going to be a new woman.

I have chosen to share with you what I look like post-surgery. I have never opening-ly shared with anyone how I look unclothed or why I need to have this fat removed to feel mentally healthy about my body in 36 years.

Ok, so I had the surgery and let me first say that I was wigged out on Tuesday night 8.18.15 the evening before surgery. I was really worried about the final out come but more importantly I was worried about the risk and pain. I had to be at the doctors office the day before to get me pill cocktail that would make me woozy, Dr. Thomas Baker at American Lipo Centers in Dallas, TX, doe not use anesthesia, so I would in an induced state and able to feel the pain of having the Laser-scope inserted into my body over and over again. I remember hollering or screaming out in pain and calling for Jesus to deliver me from the pain. The I remember the nurse Debbie, saying that I was doing fine and that I would be ok or that it was ok. Either way it hurt so bad I wanted them to stop but I was in a semi-conscious state. I do remember her telling me to open my eyes so that I could see the fat oozing through the tube into a container.

When it was time for Dr. Baker to do my back I remember standing up and feeling the instrument going into my back and moving around again I cried out. I have a low threshold for pain and this could be the reason that it hurt more than I thought imagined.

After the procedure I was awaked and told that it was all over and in a few minutes I could get dressed. Actually, Debbie the nurse helped me into the compression garment and padded me with pads to catch the leaking until I got home. By the time I got home it was time to start changing the pads, which by the way I was told to by super absorbent maxi-pads, ad bed pads to catch the leakage.

The once the meds wore off, it was time to change the pads and that's when the hell began, I was in so much pain from the moving of the pads replacing them and trying to get comfortable that my friend-girl who was helping me said that I was crying and speaking in tongues. Now this I do remember! My skin hurt so bad that I wanted to be put to sleep.

The next morning I had to go back to it was hell all over again as Debbie and I pulled the compression garment down to look at the incisions and Dr. Baker could ok the progress, I screamed at the pain.

The next two days were terrible my skin felt as if it was on fire, I couldn't sleep or get comfortable at night, would not recommend getting back done at the same time! Driving, walking, sitting, going up and down the stairs and if anyone touched me it felt as if my skin was on fire.

Today as I write this it is 4 days post-opt 8.23.15 and I am still in pain skin hurts dreading taking off compression for cleaning, I had to finally put band-aids over the incisions in order to get some relief from the pressure of the top of the compression garment and my bra rubbing up against the open wounds under my breast. The ones on my back were healing but I had to cover them up as well. Tonight as I write this I am feeling better but only until I have to walk or to put on the stomach compression band before I go to sleep.

I do not see a lot of results yet but others say they see some. I am swollen and praying for the day that my skin stops itching, burning and feeling numb. Also I have a cotton ball in my navel daily to keep the shape round?

The pictures I am posting show what the garment looks, like the after affects of leaking and the swollenness of my body after the procedure.