Loving This Already!

Today I have been reflecting on the fact that for the first time in my life I feel pleased baring my body in the mirror to myself and I don’t want to cry about how I look. I have struggled my entire life with body issues and even though I am still swollen and healing and in my compression garment, I was happy when I took these pictures to share how my healing is progressing. 3 weeks out, my energy is about 70-80%. I’m still not allowed to do anything but basic walking around. I am having my family continue to do all of the house chores and cleaning ;) I am very much looking forward to being cleared to begin exercising again in a few weeks (I REALLY miss that). I feel very inspired to keep eating healthy and taking good care of myself. I hope I end up a poster-child for what this can do for a person. I feel very grateful to my PS and to the universe that I could afford to do this.

I am Day 15 today and still very pleased. I am able to stand almost straight up at times but still have the tightening feeling in my abdomen. When that happens I just allow myself to keep sort of “hunched” to accommodate. My back does not hurt at all at this point. I feel I am healing well and my PS agreed. I did have some yellow (not infection) viscous fluid leaking from the very small incision on the side of my hip/butt from my fat transfer but that has resolved in the last two days. I showed my PS and we just kept an eye on it. I put a pad over it to keep my clothes from getting spotted. I’m so ready to be healed so I can exercise again. From the neck up I’m ready :) I see my dr in two weeks so we will see what my progress is then.

Ok, I got my drain out yesterday and was very glad of that. My surgeon uses a procedure/device where there is a drain tube in each side but it comes out to one tube right above my vagina. He used lidocaine to numb the area and it did not hurt at all when it was removed (only was like 2 seconds) but my abdomen felt tight the rest of the evening. I am keeping a gauge pad over the hole to capture any excess drainage. Little by little I am able to be slightly more upright - but by no means all the way. I am still sleeping in my recliner. My BBL looks “boxy” right now because it’s so new and it takes a few months for the “fluffing up” to happen. Yes, I actually read about BBL fluff lol. Once I am healed I am planning to do Celfina to treat my cellulite so hopefully I end up with a mostly smooth round bottom! My incisions are healing well and the bruising from my breast lift are starting to fade. I have only a very slight amount of discharge. I love my boobs and hope they stay perky!