48 Yrs Old, Empty Nester, wanting my Hour Glass Figure Back - (TT, BBL, & BL) Bowie, MD

Gina

Is it possible to change my category from body lift to a mommy makerover? I inadvertently selected the wrong catergory.

Appreciate your help.
Miche

Thanks for the advice and love your journey. You really look Great!
I was too chicken to go out of the country or even Miami for sx. When I started this process I was going to have it done with Spectrum Plastic Surgery but with all of the strolling I did on RS some of the stories made me decide to do it at home with a local ps and access to my primary. Dr. C does great body contouring. I'm going to post some pic of my breast. I would appreciate your thoughts.

Thanks babes. Yeah contouring is how I got to him. Happy to help any way that I can, but in advance lemme say that I'm biased. Aesthetically it made more sense (for me) to get a BL because I was already fixing my other areas of concern. You can only do a) what you deem *necessary* and b) what you're emotionally prepared for. If they don't bother you, don't bother them lol. At rest, my nipples and belly button were on the same horizontal plane, so they bothered me. I'll also say that if I had had all the other procedures without doing the BL, I'dve been satisfied, but not happy, know what I mean? The girls who go to Miami whose stories I've read here are much braver than I could ever be. I know you didn't mention it by name but in case you were thinking it, Vanity (for example) has doctors whose skill set is off the charts, but the facility itself and their staff? hot. damn. mess. from what I've read. Ultimately, you have to do what you're comfortable doing but what I'm saying is that their posts are proof that your surgeon practicing in the u.s. is no guarantee of your experience. I'm just vicariously salty at the amount of money they get to charge, in part, by helping to perpetuate the stigma of sx outside of the U.S. Since I'm already ranting ;) I might as well say that I think this is only true of brown countries. Canada is the other international border on the North American continent but you never hear a peep about em. I used to be apprehensive too but what honestly helped me get past it was a report I heard out of the corner of my ear on my desk top radio one morning. One of the places I was considering was this world renowned park ave practice in nyc. Dude has TV and print ads everywhere. Specializes solely in plastics, super busy, 9 month long waiting list, the whole shibibble. Ok so I go for a mommy makeover consult b/c like you, I was gonna take care of all of it in one shot. Just TT and BL was $24K, that didn't include BBL, lipo, contouring, back work, hips, none of that, girl I'm just talking bout chop this off and put these back where they go. Anyway, so back to the radio blurb - I was at my desk and hear the news segment lady say "a ____ year old woman died during surgery with dr. _______ ______ on Friday afternoon". I'm not saying that to scare you, clearly there could've been factors and/or complications we don't know about. My point is that an expert American surgeon who does nothing but chops and tucks all day lost a patient during a routine lipo. That was the moment I realized that the risk isn't so much about where or who, more than the procedure(s) and the patient it's being performed on. I wouldn't encourage anyone to go somewhere outside their comfort level, but I would say, from experience, that the range of medical knowledge and education your surgeon has is much more important than where they learned it because medical board certification exists in every country, we just need to be willing to look/ask for it.

i love your truth...Thank you!!! I just my final and research paper and I'm sittin trying figure out should I start another term or wait until i have the sx. I'm so distracted because I'm focused on getting everything together before, during and after sx have to dos. i just started and it was a rough term tring to get back into the swing of things. I will make a decision by next week.

Lol. I thought I scared you off with all that *verbalness*. Ooooh school! Exciting. Congratulations. Whatcha studying? Girl, we're here once you make the decision about sx, it's dang near impossible to want to focus on anything else, I get it lol. I know it's a common saying around here that everyone's experience is different, what I found from reading was that us veteran dolls typically needed more bounce back time than they initially anticipated.

I take my hat off to you for juggling all those balls in the air, it can't be easy. There are plenty of helpful dolls who've posted lists on what it was most helpful to them to bring, what not to, what to expect, what they wish they'd done. Maybe type supply list into the search box, I think there are few different threads about it. I overpacked, if I could've used a piece of advice about this it would be - take only the stuff your recovery house won't have. If you're coming home the next day or two, you'll need almost nothing. Bacterial soap, a face towel, robe and toothbrush/paste, shower cap. Where are you going to recover, is someone available to help you?

Thanks. I'm really not comfortable in my skin right now....and I need to be for me..
For a lack of better way of putting this I'm vanity and right now I don't feel or see myself as sexy...

I was really impressed with Dr. C and his staff. I think i alway questioned his entire staff on what type of surgery they had done.

thank you for the compliment. I'm prayerful that everything comes together and I heal safely.