Late 30s, a few kids and Doing Something for Me - Harrisburg, PA

Everything is going great. I feel really lucky as far as my healing and swelling and bruising when compared to many and most of the stories I've read on this site. I had almost no reason at all I only feel swollen for like the first 4 days. I may have residual swelling on the inner lips right now especially due to the fact that not on my stitches have dissolved yet... I just cut part of one off. So in the picture there is a little irritation and lots and lots of coconut oil. Because I'm trying to help these stitches dissolve. When I look at the pictures it doesn't look very nice but when I look at it in person .... it's like [RS bleep] pretty.

I had my flanks lipoed today and oh my god....AGONY!! Its a little better after a Percocet.....dr said it looked great but i swelled up really fast. Here is a pic of the lady bits.....feeling much less pain today but that pain may just be drowned out by flank pain. Anyway here's a pic.

well, today I ran to target and did a little shopping and then we went out to eat. I was screaming inside and couldn't wait to get home and pop a pain pill and throw an ice pack on my little lady. It was definitely the most painful moment so far. I came back here popped a pill and lay down and took a nap. The surgery center gave me these kind of thick maxi pad and I was thinking to myself I can't wait to use a thinner pad, but as it turns out the thicker pad applies kind of a pressure and offers more support. So I'm going to continue with the thicker pads even though I'm not really bleeding anymore. I will try to post a picture later but right now my one and a half year old monster is tormenting me and I can't really take any pics at the moment.