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40 Year Old Mum of 2, 5'4" and 126lb - TT with MR - Manchester, GB
UPDATED FROM slinkymalinky26
16 days post
Getting back to normal
I'm 16 days post op, and I'm definitely feeling a lot more human. I took the car out for the first time on day 13, so I'm doing the school run again now. I work part time from home, and I'm back to doing that as normal. I'm able to do a few chores around the house and a bit of cooking, but trying to avoid the heavy lifting of pots, etc.
I'm walking upright now, or at least I think I am, until I catch myself in the mirror doing the little old lady stoop again! I usually have pretty good posture, but everything still feels so tight, I think my body is in protection mode and I'm automatically hunching over. I can stand up straight anyway, so I just have to work on doing it more often. I lay flat out on my back in bed last night for the first time, which felt great. It's how I'm used to sleeping, and I had an unbroken night's sleep - lovely!
I don't feel like I'm walking normally yet though! I think I must swing my hips quite a lot when I walk, and the tightness around my middle is preventing me from doing that naturally, so I feel like my walk is a bit robotic at the moment. I'm sure that will improve soon.
The worst thing at the moment is, predictably, the swelling. When I look in the mirror and then at my before pictures I know that the excess, saggy skin is gone, but my shape, even with a compression garment on, still looks the same - even with my clothes on. That stupid sticky out belly that I don't want to see any more. Ugh. It doesn't help my mood or my swelling that I'm just about starting to get my period I suppose...
I knew there would be swelling - of course, everybody gets swelling - and I swore I would not let myself get stressed out about it; that I would just go with the flow and be patient and wait for it to pass. But now it's here I just keep looking at it, and thinking about it, and worrying that it won't go down enough and I won't get the shape I was hoping for.
It would help if I could find a CG or shapewear that I was happy with. The one that I was given at the hospital is too big really - too long for my frame and hence wrinkling down, and also not pulling me in enough. Then the shapewear I already owned is so ridiculously difficult to pull up and down I feel like it's going to damage the incisions healing. Time for a shopping trip soon I think.
Anyway, I hope everybody else is healing well, and being patient - unlike me!!!
I'm walking upright now, or at least I think I am, until I catch myself in the mirror doing the little old lady stoop again! I usually have pretty good posture, but everything still feels so tight, I think my body is in protection mode and I'm automatically hunching over. I can stand up straight anyway, so I just have to work on doing it more often. I lay flat out on my back in bed last night for the first time, which felt great. It's how I'm used to sleeping, and I had an unbroken night's sleep - lovely!
I don't feel like I'm walking normally yet though! I think I must swing my hips quite a lot when I walk, and the tightness around my middle is preventing me from doing that naturally, so I feel like my walk is a bit robotic at the moment. I'm sure that will improve soon.
The worst thing at the moment is, predictably, the swelling. When I look in the mirror and then at my before pictures I know that the excess, saggy skin is gone, but my shape, even with a compression garment on, still looks the same - even with my clothes on. That stupid sticky out belly that I don't want to see any more. Ugh. It doesn't help my mood or my swelling that I'm just about starting to get my period I suppose...
I knew there would be swelling - of course, everybody gets swelling - and I swore I would not let myself get stressed out about it; that I would just go with the flow and be patient and wait for it to pass. But now it's here I just keep looking at it, and thinking about it, and worrying that it won't go down enough and I won't get the shape I was hoping for.
It would help if I could find a CG or shapewear that I was happy with. The one that I was given at the hospital is too big really - too long for my frame and hence wrinkling down, and also not pulling me in enough. Then the shapewear I already owned is so ridiculously difficult to pull up and down I feel like it's going to damage the incisions healing. Time for a shopping trip soon I think.
Anyway, I hope everybody else is healing well, and being patient - unlike me!!!
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