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Hello! Hello! My fellow RS friends. I know! It's...

Hello! Hello! My fellow RS friends. I know! It's been a long time. But I am alive and very well. So much has happened since my last post. So bare with my as I will try to give as much details. So I am now about 3 1/2 months post op. I am feeling sooo good and loving my results. Ok, so when I last posted in November I was having issues with fluid build up on the bottom of my tummy but I was going to the spa that Dr Walkiris recommended me to for aspiration, stich removal and massages. Well as I said in my last post , Dr Angela at the spa told me that with one more fluid aspiration I should be good and sh was right. I went back to see her and she aspirated me for the last time which was also the last time I had the massage done. I found that the massages did help get rid of the hard spots from the lipo but I only had about 5 massages done. Once I saw that I didnt have anymore hard spots, I stopped going. The best thing I was able to get from the spa is the faja. They sell a faja called " Ponte Bella" and I luv how it makes my body look. I was wearing the faja 24/7 and only taking it off for showering. But just about two weeks ago I stopped wearing it to sleep and on weekends. Other than that I wear it Monday thru Friday. So its been about two weeks now since I haven't gotten the bad itches and blotchy redness on my body especially when I use to shower. My back sometimes gets swollen but not all the time. However my back still has a slight numbness and slight burning feeling but only when I scratch my back or lay on my back. I am very happy with my tummy tuck. My scar is lightening up on the right side and middle section but my left side is still a bit dark but from having experienced with a previous tummy tuck, I know that once I turn a year it will be super light. The one thing I love from this tummy tuck compared to my first one many years ago is that I don't have any dog ears. With my first TT I had dog ears but I was okay with it except when I would wear pantys or pants they would stick out a bit as if it was a tiny roll. I am super happy with my new TT results because I wasn't able to get a full TT as I didn't have enough skin to pull but Dr W did a good job making it look natural and flat. As for the lipo, all I can say is wow!!! I can't believe how much it can change ones body. I no longer have back and bra rolls and I have a tiny waste. Now for the booty, I am very happy with my results. Now I had a big butt before the transfer but what I wanted was for it to look fuller and perky cuz it looked big but like an old ladies butt, especially under neath my butt I use to have what they call butt rolls. Which is fatfrom weight gain that gets stuck under your butt cheeks even when you loose weight it would stay stuck and it made it look as if I had to cheeks or two curves. I definately like how my butt now looks but I feel that not enough fat was removed under my cheeks. I love the top volume of my butt and I love that my cheeks now have that nice round curve on the bottom but I still hate that I have little tiny butt rolls. My right leg has almost none but my left leg still has a small roll. This has always been that one thing that I hated abou my body. So I would like to take care of that area to eliminate the remaing little roll. But overall I lovvvee my botty cuz it looks like a young girls butt and coming from a mom of six this has made my self confidence rise. My boobies now feel and look so natural. They are not hard at all and the swelling has gone done. I love the way they look now. Perky and full. They no longer look saggy like the national geographic type and they are definitely bigger in size because I use to be a small B and I am now C. Im just not sure if it's a small or full C. Now don't get me wrong, I love my new girls but I do regret not going with 375cc's. I was scared of going to large and them looking fake so I went with 350cc. Now I am contimplating if I should go back for a larger size. I would like to be a bit bigger than what they are now. So for you ladies going soon for breast implants, I would say don't be scared and go with your gut and also keep in mind that once the swelling goes down which is about three weeks, you will notice that they will go down in size. I am now going to buy this faja from Salome but its not a full body it's a capri, because I plan to keep my butt and continue having it look good. So faja Salome online has a capri called Levantacola since summer is around the corner and theres now way I will be wearing a full body faja so this capri faja will help me maintain my butt just as I do with my new boobs by wearing the right support bra to keep them perky. By the way, I want to say thank you to those who have kept in touch with me while I have not posted in a long time. I want to apologize for not posting as it got a bit crazy for me when I returned back to work because I had so much work to catch up and behind. Then december came and it is the busiest time of the year as people are trying to meach sales goals before the year ends so it was sooo busy. Then came chritmas and with 6 kids it's not easy to buy gifts in one shot and definitely not easy to hide them. Then New Years came and we decided to put the house up for sale and we have been busy with painting fixing decluttering and packing, so just now I finally had down time. I am writting to you guys while my three babies are napping. I will try to post picks toight and I will continue todo my best to post often until I turn six months, just as I promised.

BTW, I forgot to mention about my sister. Girls!...

BTW, I forgot to mention about my sister. Girls! What a transformation! She looks like a complete different person. Even her colleagues at her worked are amazed of her results. My sister is sooo loving her butt and small waste and no side, back or bra rolls. However, she is now thinking of getting a tummy tuck done because her big butt now matches her stomach. So I guess we'll see how that goes. I'll keep you posted. I will try to see if I can post a pic of her too.

Hi Ladies, so I finally made it thru week 1 at...

Hi Ladies, so I finally made it thru week 1 at work besides dealing with my house problems due to the storm. Where should I start... Oh yes, the itch and numbness in my back. So I think everyone seems to have different symptoms after having lipo. My sister is doingg great with no pain or numbness in her back. Yet for me about two weeks ago I had the most intense itch all over my body, especially after I showered. To the point that I had red blotchiness all over. So what I found that helped me with this was to take benedryl at night along with my arnica and jergens ultra healing lotion. My butt has finally stopped from flaking but I guess it was due to the aquphor ointment that I was applying. K so this week was my first week back to work and on the first day, everyone was staring at me. My men colleagues kept asking if I had lost weight so I would just reply by saying " I dont think so, why?" But the woman are more smarter so they try to ask in a sneaky way, like " girl u look so good , what did u do while u were out?" I just asked stupid and say " nothing, why?" But two of the ladies who I trust knew about my procedure before leaving and they are so blown out of ttheir mind how good I look. Now one of the girls is planning to get in contact with Raquel for possibly getting surgery in March 2013. She loves my look and would like the same, plus I told her how happy I was to make the decision and how well they take care of you at the recovery house. Being that I have a desk job, I found myself having to go to the bathroom or kitchen a few times because my butt would feel sore after sitting on it for more than two hours straight. But the worst experience for me is that by the time end of day gets near, my back begins to swell so bad and it ffeels like I'm going to pop out of my garment like the Hulk. The other thing to is that because I have a tighter garment, it begins to irritate my body by the time I am driving back home (mind u its a two hour drive). Oh! Oh 1 So this past wednesday was my appointment at Angels Spa for my massage and appointment with Dr Angela. This time which was my second session the massage was done with a vibrating ultrasound machine and OMG!!! It freakin hurt me, especially when the apply preasure to the areas that have spots of hardness, which helps break up the fat and smooth out your skin and reduce swelling. For me this is painful since my waist had a lot of lipo done so I am very sore, like abruising feeling. But I maintained strong and just tried to deal with it. Then I saw Dr Angela and she asperated again the fluid I had in the bottom of my tummy, it hurts since I have feeling in my entire stomach. My bottom belly was swollen but when she asperated the fluid it immediately became flat. She says that with one more session I should bve good and that its normal when one has lipo and tummy tuck, plus the other reason for the swelling is because the garment that I bought from her last time in a large is too loose now as I have lost a lot of swelling. So even though it cost me money, I had to buy another one in a medium and now I am super tight, but I love this garment cuz it gives a good lift to the butt. Oh and she also removed a few of my stiches that didnt disolve because she said that if it does not get removed then it can cause the incisions to become effected. I wasnt so sure about it so as I waited for Dr Angela, I took advantage to email Dr Drobles to see if this was ok and she told me yes, to allow her to remove them becuz it should have desolved by now and for me to make sure to apply neosporin for one week and then continue putting the mosqueta rose oil. So Dr Angela removed one stich from under my butt cheek where the fat was transferred to, then she took the stiches fom each of the side of my breast where the lift was done, one from the inscision of my back on the top right and the other from the middle. What a relief now because I no longer feel itchy from the stiches. This session again cost me a bit of money but im okay with that so that the swelling can stop. The other thing Dr Angela told me to buy is a electric heat pad being that I cant afford to go twice a week, to help reduce the swelling on my back and tummy. Im going today to walmart to get one so lets see how that goes. After this update I will post pics of me in my work clothes and I tried my best to take pics of my booty myself. Oh, so far my boobs are begining to feel natural. My left boob no longer hurts when touched but my right boob still is sensitive to the touch. As for my booty, it still hasnt gone down and Im hoping that it dosnt as I now have learned to love my big booty. At first I felt embarressed of the size, becuz Im conservative butt now I love it and have no problem showing it off. So my tip of the day once your surgery is done and as your healing, if u get the real bad itches, keep in mind to try benedryl. Talk to you soon again. I almost forgot to tell you that I weighed myself at work this Monday and I now weigh 139, which before surgery I was 147. So the hard part for me will be to maintain this weight because I dont want to loose anymore cuz I luv my booty and I dont want to gain weight becuz I luv my curves and I dont want to ever have rolls on my back or waist. So this will be a huge challenge for me.

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Mustafac Kemal Atartuck, 24, Naco, Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional
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I chose this doctor by researching my information here in RealSelf. Also by getting in touch with the ladies that also had surgery with her either by posting comments here or contacting them directly and talking to them about their experience. Bug most of all keeping in touch with Raquel Medina who is the doctors assistant and asking her every question that came to mind. Thankfully she is patient and understanding.