5.3" 125lbs 3 C Section, Weight Loss and Finally TT - Falls Church, VA

I am feeling more normal each day, although swelling can be huge to later of the day. My wound is closing itself very good. I have about 5mm left to close. PS assured that when it's right time I will go ahead and have the scar revision at office. It was amazing to watch how human body works and heals the wound by itself very fast. I have burnt scar on my left side, which later I will be putting on some kind of ointment which my ps told me. Until then I am putting silicon sheets everywhere but the wound area. I still sore on my muscle, specially when swollen. Will start my gym routine once my wound closes fully, big need on doing some squads. My wound care had been 3 times a day with saline change up until yesterday that ps changed it to twice a day with neospirin . Girls do you wear high heel? I am trying to understand this swelling drama..... I usually wear heels at my work and wondering if that's affecting. Also, have you used Bio oil and getting hair grown around the area you massage? I am not sure if it's the bio oil doing or something else, but I stopped putting bio oil. Sex is wonderful... No tummy hanging over, feel like I am back to my college age :-).

yes, 5 weeks!! If i didn't develop necrosis, i would have been shopping for bikinis. However, i am still happy that my complication is treatable and revision-able if necessary. Juuuust need to be super patient. As you can see from my photo, my wound got much better by each day and its nice and red which i believe is on its way to healing/closing. My PS did not do surgical debride and let it cleaned by wet to dry gauze changing with peroxide. I have to admit that i was hoping he would debride it at office but looking back boy he knew what he was doing!! He only took out some sutures that were sticking out. Although i am very curious about those sutures, what if it is going to effect my final result by mechanically cutting those sutures when it was suppose to be dissolved by itself after several months.....hope it doesn't. Puckers- because of necrosis totally stopped worrying about puckers, just too much to handle. My left side flattened out completely :-), and right side is improving. I have inside suture that is holding from inside and causing the pucker on the right side. When they dissolve (4 months from surgery) that should be resolved. The little wound is almost closed, not quite but it is relieving that actually it closes itself without any treatment (except putting on neospirin). Again my PS knew what he was doing, and he is going to give me some ointment for that skin discoloration later. I only told couple of my friend about my TT, and one of them was wondering why since i am already very skinny... when i get a chance i will show her this before and after picture comparison :-). And I really want people to understand that this is not weight loss surgery. I had this size 0 (express brand) jeans for a looong time. Loove this jeans .... was able to wear it after my second baby and 40 lbs weight loss but with lots of covering to hide my gigantic skin. After third baby and 50 lbs weight loss (once again) the elephant tongue (is how i used to call my pouch) just got too huge that i wasn't even able to wear it. I was soo happy this morning to try on my legendary size 0 jeans..... Oh soooo worth my all stresses, time, money and so on. As soon as my wound closes, i will be soo shopping for short tops/low rise pants and bikini like if I am back in time. I realized when i am chubby i used to avoid cameras. Had a hard time finding any evidences/photos. This one is in 2005 after my first baby - for some reason that is how i gained when i had babies (have i mentioned all my kids born weighed around 9lbs, huge for my body frame) - 3 times!!!! I learnt lot over all my loosing weight journeys, most importantly to live a healthy lifestyle. Ok - here is another complain if anybody experienced/experiencing? On my right side where my incision ends, it hurts so much when i touch. I noticed it got redder wonder if my garment is irritating that part against my hip bone. Not sure what to do except some massaging in the evening, not sure meaning if i need to panic or be patient. I don't mind the pain, only worried it got red-er. Happy healing ladies, those who have same complications please share your experiences.

So, my black skin turned out to be a necrosis. Started wet to dry gauze 3 times a day starting 2 weeks PO per my PS advise and eventually black hard part part turned into yellow squishy thing. He checked me last week (3 weeks PO) and opened up little bit of dead skin area, no debride done. Well I was once again shocked to see big hole when I get home after long day. So I guess I had to go through this step. We are still using the same treatment and I actually starting to see some pink color. Again my husband is cleaning it very good and actually mechanically removing some yellow part on each change. Wow he is my psychiatrist, massager, nurse, nanny, chef, cheerleader, adviser ... Can't imagine myself going through all these just by myself. I had bad insomnia for some time, I think it's all because this stress over necrosis. I still have little issue sleeping but getting better than before. Sometimes I just want it over, sometimes I feel like it's ok little more time.... Anyways this is definitely something that you really need to be patient - not so liking it. PS told me that minimal scar revision can be done at right time if I am not happy with my scar when healed. Oh have I ever mentioned that I have needle phobia????? And got to have the most surgery in the world. I hope this is my last journey with surgeries. But I will have to be very brave to make my TT procedure done with the best result that it could be. Swelling is really can be something but I can live with it knowing that this is expected. I am a person who really freaks out to something that is not expected. Been shocked quite a lot so far wow.... Really don't want to again. PS did a good job with my tummy only thing I would like to change is him being communicating more / explains what is coming .... I can be very open minded only needs to know whole process and being on top of it. I think I will most likely having scar revision later. Another big complication - my skin got burnt by the puckering after surgery. That little hole is not healing, and getting deeper and whiter inside. This something not on my incision line and very worried of potential scar later. What stresses me is that no treatment is advised and basically just seeing it growing :-(. I really need to talk about it when I see him day after tomorrow. I emailed him about it not sure we understood each other correct or rather he understood maybe I was keep talking about necrosis wound.