Giving Myself a TT for my 60th Birthday! Fort Myers, FL

6 months...and 2 days ago....i was shuffling out of surgery. Don't remember much...lol. I am sitting here today in my hot house, and a corset on. When i walk a lot....i still have twinges in my tummy. OR even if I'm not doing a damn thing...which is often. People all think it's the scar area that is bothersome. It's not. I tell them the 'scar' was the easy part. It was the lipoed sides and tummy.

I have a spot (looks kinda like an indent circle) from the lipo...that still gets sore. In the first pics...it was that circular bruise...it's in the front. Taking pics today, i see an indent on my side. Hadn't ever noticed it before....must be the light...and angle.

I am leaving Friday to go on a 92 mile kayak paddle down a river in northern Wisconsin. Going with 'Tom' and another guy friend. Tom...ugh...been off and on. He's nice when he hasn't seen or talked to me in over a week. *shrugs*

I was concerned about taking this trip, and hoping that i would be healed enough by now. But i think wearing a corset...and my TIGHT life jacket...should give me enough compression. My scar is still ugly...but i don't look at it. My dog ears bother me...but i just pull my undies up over them. I love that i don't have a big hanging belly. I feel sexy. I do have a fatter bulge on my left side...but that is where i had more fat and skin to begin with. I can pinch a couple of inches on that side...and only an inch on the other. When i sit i have an over hang a bit. BUT...you have to realize i have NEVER been skinny with a flat stomach....ever.

Remember when they say, if you over eat...your fat will have to go somewhere cuz the fat cells from your stomach and sides have been sucked, sliced and diced? I thought for SURE they would end up in my fat arms! But nooooo....my thighs are now thunder thighs! OMG...i use to have nice legs!

Going to the wedding....etc....i have gained 6 pounds in the last month...from my lowest. ugh. Yest. all i ate were cookies and this yummy coconut creme pie. That's it!



So maybe paddling 92 miles....and swatting mosquitoes...will help with that.
On with the pics....well maybe not. Can't get it off the site i have them on...waagh

Can't say i look better than last month...but it might be the boxes of choc. chip cookies I've been eating...or....well...more cookies. I was going to do my review a few days ago...when i was feeling 'up'....cuz you know who contacted me. Again....he turns cold. I should know better and not be always bewildered by the things he says when in the throes of 'wanting me'...to the next day. lol
so onward with the storyline.
Tonite I've had a small ache in the middle of my stomach on my left side. Its sort of where he bruised me with the lipo. It's sort of weird, cuz at first i didn't know what that round bruise on my stomach was from....then after the bruising went away, you could still see the circle 'indent'. Now i realize it's some small boo-boo from the lipo.
I still have pooches of fat on my sides at the ends of the scar....especially on my left side. I can really grab a HANDFUL of skin...versus the other side. But when i bend over to the right side...it uses all that extra skin to stretch!!! So i guess that's good.....IF i ever did side stretches!

I did go out of town this past weekend and kayaked 13 miles one day...and 6 the next. I am possibly going on a 3 day paddle over memorial day....and tenting on a sandbar one night. I had hoped Tom would be doing that with me...but now it looks like he won't. So i will be doing it ALONE! Which is totally out of my comfort level. I am also going on a week long kayaking/tenting trip up in Northern Wisconsin in June. This is the trip that i was hoping to be recovered for after my TT. Thought maybe Tom and i might have to use a tandem. But heck....now I'll be lucky if he shares his tent with me!!! lol The last 2 days of that paddle...is 20 and 21 miles long. I have never paddled over 13 miles in one day in my life....and i'm worn out after that!
So that should be an adventure.
I have to tell you...i have never dumped my kayak....until this past weekend. I had always 'hoped' it would never happen. I kayak with my chihuahua with me. Anyway, i went around a sharp curve...and the current was very swift. I saw a fallen tree trunk, but thought i could avoid it. But nope....the current side swiped me into it. Everything happened so quickly. All i knew was the boat was on top of my head, and i couldn't get my footing. Finally i got out from under the boat...all i could think of was pup! As the boat...and my paddle started washing downstream...i grabbed my boat and by sheer will i flipped it over...AND MY DOG WAS STILL IN THERE! I was so relieve....and then she jumped out into the river. ugh. She swam for me...i grabbed her and pulled my boat to shore. The water was to my waist...i think. My group never even saw it happen. They were still around the curve. Some college students were canoeing....and one capsized the same place i did. My group was busy getting a rope...and had to pull them out. Finally my friend say me....soaking wet...and asked what happened! lol Thanks. Another canoeist rescued my paddle and my camera that was floating by it! Thank God it was a water proof camera....and was saved!
The point behind this story was....if i can survive a half torn off toenail....bruised up knee...and who knows WHAT kind of stomach muscles were being used...i guess i can survive just about anything!

Now onto a new adventure. After bf was telling everyone we were over...i called my old ex fiance and told him i needed a road trip...i was depressed. He said he was trying to end it with his gf (he's a lousy rat too...but now he's someone's else's lousy rat!!! lol) And he wanted to go to his cousins wedding in Florida. I know him also. So we are going to share expenses...i'm taking my new van. Gonna wear a bunch of new swimming suits...my new dresses....dance my butt off....and golf....and play in the sand and sun! Everything that my part time bf won't ever do with me. It will be nice to dress up and look sexy...rather than just be hiking and laying in a tent like usual.....lol
Leaving next Wed. and be gone for a week. Will take lots of pics of me looking sexy! Yeah!