BBL Part 2: 3/13/13 was my SX with Perry - Miami, FL

To first read part 1 of my BBL journey, please click here.

Ok girls, here's the skinny on the day. I woke up, showered and headed to Perry. He is SO cool and down to earth. I love everyone there. The nurses, Norma, the anesthesiologist, etc EVERYBODY feels like friends/family. Like I've known then for years. He took me back to change and mark me up. The nurse sits with you asks you questions etc (she had ver butt done in July and she looks amazing btw), then the anesthesiologist comes in and asks more questions and goes over your history. She was cool, honest and we laughed so much. One thing about me is that I'm a jokester. I love to laugh and make other people laugh. Especially in uncomfortable situations. Oddly enough u really wasn't nervous at all. Everyone kept commenting on how cool and relaxed I was. I did get nervous when they took me to the OR and put the IV in. Then I was nervous for 2 minutes before I was out.

I woke up on my butt and it was painful. Like laying on rocks. But more so than being in pain I was THIRSTY!!! You can feel where they put the breathing tube bc your throat is sore. Your mouth is so dry and your throat is super dry. I asked for water immediately.

Ok girls here's my updates for day 1-4 post op:

Day of 3/13:
Ok girls, here's the skinny on the day. I woke up, showered and headed to Perry. He is SO cool and down to earth. I love everyone there. The nurses, Norma, the anesthesiologist, etc EVERYBODY feels like friends/family. Like I've known then for years. He took me back to change and mark me up. The nurse sits with you asks you questions etc (she had ver butt done in July and she looks amazing btw), then the anesthesiologist comes in and asks more questions and goes over your history. She was cool, honest and we laughed so much. One thing about me is that I'm a jokester. I love to laugh and make other people laugh. Especially in uncomfortable situations. Oddly enough u really wasn't nervous at all. Everyone kept commenting on how cool and relaxed I was. I did get nervous when they took me to the OR and put the IV in. Then I was nervous for 2 minutes before I was out. I woke up on my butt and it was painful. Like laying on rocks. But more so than being in pain I was THIRSTY!!! You can feel where they put the breathing tube bc your throat is sore. Your mouth is so dry and your throat is super dry. I asked for water immediately. I woke up to them talking about food and someone said beef jerky. I said "beef jerky?" And everyone started cracking up. I was laughing. I woke up happy chipper and became pretty alert pretty quickly. When Nedege arrived the helped me up, which really wasn't hard, and put me into the garment. It really wasn't painful, tbh. It just wasn't. I received a medium. Dr perry was there every step of the way. From the minute I walked through the door to arrive for surgery, til the minute I got into nedege's car. He wheeled me out there ladies!!! He's really the BEST!!! Getting into Nedege's car was fairly simple. You lay on your stomach, but you have to lift up and kind of hop in. Really the only thing working against me. Post-op I felt pretty good, considering, besides anesthesia. I got back to the hotel and walking sucked bc I felt very nauseous. I'm not a puker. I don't know how people do it. I started dry heaving and pushed air bubbles. No food/water. Once I got those air bubbles out I felt immediately better. I came back to hotel and Nedege got me situated. I didn't sleep. I made calls, texts etc but my vision was very blurry from anesthesia. So if you RS girls got some wonky texts from me, I'm sorry. Lol. I was starving and asked Nedege to get me food. I told her I wanted Burger King. Dr perry said it was ok so she went. It's very weird girls. I expected to be laid up and miserable but I'm not. I pee by myself, eat, walk, lift my legs, use my upper body to get up pretty easily it's strange. I have taken one codeine pull 2 hours ago. Not for pain so mych but bc i wanted to sleep. But codeine really doesn't do anything for me, which is why I asked perry to prescribe me Percocet also. Those are for the massages. I'm not looking forward to those. Damn!!!! Drink aLOT of water. It's going to help your throat and dry mouth, EAT, and get up as much as you can. I notice that if I lay down for 30-45 mins straight I get stiff and sore. WALK!! I still haven't slept yet so I'm going to attempt that now. I foresee me getting up a lot to walk/avoid stiffness and pee. I forgot to me mention: I weighed myself at Perry's office before sx and I weighed 135.4. So this past week being sick end stressed brought me down about 8 lbs from where I was a couple weeks ago. But my nurse said when I got out of surgery that she had never seen so much FAT on a thin person. I had a LOT of fat on me. I'm going to confirm with perry how much he took out, but I asked him to take out the legal limit, and suck me DRY! Lol. I'm hoping inevitably I'm down to a 24/25 inch waist. He said 1600cc's per cheek and I believe 200 per hip for a grand total of 2000ccs. I told him I trusted his judgement although it sounded like a lot. I also reviewed my pics with him before surgery bc I told him I wanted "petite curvy" and he looked at me like "what? who?" In my mind petite curvy means 5'4"with a cute little waist, hips but not BIG hips (like 37-38 inches), and a bubble/shelf booty. He said my pics were all curvy not petite so I'm glad we sorted that put and decoded what I meant. He got what I meant by petite once I explained it. I'm very swollen now but I can already see such a difference in my shape/silhouette. I couldn't be happier at this point. I love this man!!!! Goodnight ladies!!!

Days 2&3 post op:
Hey girls, today is post op day 3 for me. I'm rocking it like a hurricane, lol. I feel great. Today was definitely tougher than yesterday, I'll be honest. Yesterday I woke up really stiff. I also couldn't fall asleep the night before (night of surgery) until 6:30am. Sleeping is difficult bc of the position. I am usually a stomach and side sleeper but you cannot sleep in your sides if you have hip fat transfer so it's ONLY stomach for me. Your arms fall asleep so easily so you literally sleep face down. It sucks. But I'm getting better at getting comfortable each time I sleep. Anyway, you wake up very stiff. That's the hardest part. It's not painful for me, so much as I'm stiff. But once you get moving you're good again. I had first massage with Eric yesterday and rocked it. It felt good, actually, and everyone was shocked I didn't cry or tell them to stop. I can't explain how it feels except to say that it's almost orgasmic. It's definitely a pleasure/pain situation lol. So it's odd. Came home and slept, ate etc. I cannot stress enough the need to EAT, drink and take your vitamins girls. These two things I truly believe are what has made me the post-op tank that I've been. EAT!!!! Woke up and had first shower today. It felt good. Skin was very itchy feeling and I was very sore/sensitive from the massage yesterday. I ate, drank took two percosets and prepared for the massage. I'm not going to lie, today's massage was much harder on me. It was draining. The shower had made me feel tired, then going directly to the massage was killer. Eric is great though. And the girl who also massages me is fantastic. Everyone is so nice. I really, really recommend them. They're assertive in doing their job, but also empathize. That was important to me, which is why I chose Eric over Miriam. We found a pocket if fluid right over my pubic bone and with some work we drained it! The blood/fluid just pours out. It's crazy. I lost 3 lbs of fluid within a day from the first massage. How cool is that. I couldn't be happier with my results. I'm bruised, exhausted, doughy feeling etc but I'm enamored by my results. It's such a transformation and I'm SO happy with everything thus far. How I look, Nedege my caregiver, the surgery, the massages, dr perry and his team, ALL of it. I'm actually going to be sad to go back to NY. I'm going to miss these people. They've become family to me :( I'll update again tonorrow AM after my 3rd massage.