26 Yrs Old, A Hubby and 3 Kiddos Later!! Ready to Do Something 4 ME!!!!! - Miami, FL

Hi ladies!!!! How is everyone doing on this blessed Sunday that God has gave? Hopefully very well!!!!! First and foremost I want to thank all of the sisters for the well wishes and the great support and feed back. Love you ladies for that. 2nd I want to apologize for keeping you ladies waiting for so long for an update. I've been busy juggling this new booty, [RS bleep], 8 year, 5 year, and 6 month old and my hubby. 3rd I want to tell you guys please don't judge me for the kids bathroom room where I took the pics and also my Grammer sense I'm using my cell phone to update you ladies. Lol. So on to the surgery. So I pretty much summed up my experience with my surgery in my doctors review, I loved my overall experience with the doctor and staff it's almost like I wanna find a reason to go back! Lol ill just start of when I woke up from the anesthesia. OK so I go in with the anesthesiologist and before I know it i'm out like a light the next time I wake up Miriam is in my face with gatarade and water. It's like I can faintly remember her putting my garment on and thinking it was a bit uncomfortable but I was really high guys. So once I came to enough to actually understand and process what was going on I remember being very thirsty and like trying to talk but couldn't get the words out lol. I felt like a frustrated 2 year old pointing to stuff and communicating with half sentences well really I don't even think I could get a half sentence out. I remember thinking my butt was sore and trying to tell her. All I could get out was " butt hurt" it's rather funny thinking about it now. I asked for my hubby which he came right away. So I ended up staying in the recovery room for about 3 hours because I just felt so tired and weak like seriously I didn't even want to budge that's how tired this surgery will make you. I do remember feeling like the surgery going by quickly and telling Miriam that was quick and she was like you've been here for 6 hrs. Lol well at least it felt quick right?.... finally it's time to leave and thank god for my hubby he was so patient and caring of me. When we get to the condo we were staying at I just did not feel like getting out the car I was soon weak. I guess my husband took some coaching skills from Miriam cause he's like come on baby you can do it, you only have a few steps to go even though every time I looked at that door I felt like it was raking eternity to get there and the door was moving further and further away. I finally make it in and go to sleep right away. I woke up once to go to the bathroom which my husband helped me.

Day 1
Waking up this day I felt like I was feeling much better not no where near 100% or 50% for that matter, but much better than the night before. So I woke up and we had this big patio window and the sun was just shining through and I'm feeling better I know I got this new body so mind was feeling a little better then my body because I decided let me get up and go to the bathroom myself I can do it I feel dumb good! (Hubby was sleep) WRONG!! I probably made up 7 steps to the bar and I started to feel dizzy and shake. At that point o knew I had cashed a check that my ads couldn't cash cause I literally screamed for my hubby lol he popped up like woman what r u doing what is wrong with you while rushing over to me. I must admit I was a Lil salty. I'm just that type of strong determined personality like I wanted to get better and you gotta have that mind set to get better quicker. So anyways after that I layed back down I drank ensure, gatarade and lots of h2o. I'd say around 3 my nurse came by to clean me and I was able to pretty much walk on my own. I stood in the shower on my own for my 1st shower she helped me with. I was determined to not be just tied down in the bed. By the end of day 1 I was able to go to the bathroom by myself it took forever for me to get there and my husband was really close to me but I told him I wanted to do it or at least try on my own. I peed in a plastic cup I found that to be soo easy.

Day 2
I guess all that work I was doing was catching up with me I just remember being very tired just wanting to sleep. I was fully going to the bathroom myself even picked a Lil speed. I ate soup gaterade,; water, ensure, I even had a Lil fish and rice. The pain wasn't really much in the butt it was just super swollen. Where I felt the most pain was the [RS bleep]. I was almost second guessing them. I felt like dolly Parton I could barely move my arms my pectoral muscles were very swollen and painful. Ice packs helped a lot and it wasn't unbearable. This day I went out with my husband to pick something up for us to eat eat and we stopped inside of Starbucks as well.

Day 3
I was getting up light cleaning, going to the bathroom completely I even went out to eat with my hubby and walked around this outside mall off of biscayne. I began to feel really tired and everything swoll completely up I felt a bit nauseous as well, but I can say that I was feeling much better besides all of that.
Boy were those [RS bleep] a pain in the arse!!! They swelled up like water balloons I felt like a weight was on my chest and I couldn't take really deep breathes. I raced back to the room and got those icepacks they really help. My areas of lipo were very sore too.

Day 4
I had my post op appointment with dr. Salz everybody was shocked at how good I looked and was recovering so fast. My day to leave miami was day 5 in the morning which is why my post op was day 4. Dr salz was skeptical that I'd be able to leave that soon but upon seeing me he quickly changed his mine and told me I could leave.
After the appointment we went to south beach to this really nice sushi restaurant and after back to the condo to prepare to leave.

Hello real self ladies!! I am that much closer to going under the knife. Although I am very excited I would be lying if I told you ladies I dont ever become a bit nervous. Thank GOD Dr. Salz gives us anti-anxiety meds. I just don't know what I would do with myself the night before sx. Like I dont know what to expect out of myself the day of, am I gonna cry, not want my husband to leave the room or what. I took my kids out for an outting yesterday and I'm just looking at them like I don't want to leave. So yes I am having these feelings. They come really quick and then I think of the positive side of things and they leave. So I'd say about 80% of me is completely ready to go and excited but then theres that small 20%. I guess its normal. So on to a lighter note. I opted not to get as much supplies 1 because I see so many stories of ladies spending all this money to just not end up using them and Ari (personal coordinator) also advised me not to. So I pretty much just decided to stick with the basics. I got ab and lower back boards, arnica, ice bags, bromelain pills, boppy pillow, sweat suits, tank tops and etc. Also I was wondering for those of you who are post op what type of recovery garment does he give you? Butt in or butt out? Ive seen mixed reviews for them both (negative and positive) what have you ladies experienced with the garments given?