Excited to Move Forward. Fresno, CA

Holy cow! What a difference. This is mostly for me, so I can look back and see my changes.

My surgery was one year ago today. What a year! I ended up moving across the country about two and a half months after surgery.
Had surgery March 16, 2017. July 10, 2017 I went to the doctor because I was feeling really sick. I was immediately admitted to the hospital and prepped for emergency surgery. I had an abscess around my belly button that was very large and making me very ill. After surgery, I went through many weeks of daily dressing changes, which consisted of having gauze packed down into a hole in my belly. If I had caught the abscess earlier, it wouldn’t have been so bad. I had some tenderness at my belly button, but I was in the final moving process and thought I had jut over done things. My advice - any pain or anything that’s a little off, go see your doctor. Don’t brush it off like I did.
My belly button now has another scar from the emergency surgery, but I don’t care. I’m never going to be a bikini model anyway.
All in all, I’m happy I had the surgery. My figure’s not perfect, but I’m a lot more confident and able to wear clothes I never would have before.

I've been too busy to update, but here are some new pictures. I still have gauze in one spot, where I'm still closing ups but overall, I'm happy with everything and feeling pretty good.