42, 3 Kids- Liposuction (in Combo with Breast Work) Northbrook, IL

five years ago, while going through a divorce, I decided to get my floppy, empty, nursed for many years breasts "fixed". I never wanted to look too large. I went with 250ish cc .. But since it was over the muscle, they just were too fat looking for me. So...here I was five years later finally gutsy enough to go through the more painful procedure to get even smaller, "safer" "gummy bear" implants under the muscle. This part I do not regret.
What I am sitting here in pain regretting is my decision to "throw in some lipo" as well. I exercise 2 to 3 times a week and eat pretty healthy.. You know...juicing, organics, activated almonds, etc. So, my pockets of annoying fat that I could never shake made me the "perfect" candidate for lipo. I did every thing right before surgery.. Stopped vitamins and everything else on the "do not eat or drink list" 2 weeks before surgery. I made bone broth soup, ate asparagus, etc etc. I even started on arnica in hopes to have limited bruising.
I am soooo bruised. Painful bruises. Hurts most to sit and then to get back up. The worst part... I suffer alone because I am trying to hide the lipo part from my husband...he was already unhappy that I was changing my body per my breasts. Also...lipo has that "I cheated the system" aspect to it... Like people who get it are just trying to get out of exercise and eating right.
So... I am putting arnica on 3 times a day, taking arnica pills, and wearing the body constriction thing.
Like I said, I do not regret the breast surgery..that is healing pretty well...seems easy compared to the pain and discomfort, the weird numb feelings, and hardened skin areas of this lipo.
I would make sure you take at the very least a week fully off of work...I didn't.
These pics are from today... 8 days post surgery. I honestly wish I just would not have bought into feeling like I have to be as skinny as a 20something ... Also, I was so worried my smaller breasts would look disproportionate.
I am hoping my body turns out amazing due to all this...

For a more complete story I will show a series of pics to understand the part of the journey I am on now.

This was pic of breasts about 8 days post this recent surgery ( so my second breast lift/aug) Not sure what end results will be. Hoping when a lot of the swelling goes away - they will be visually smaller than last time - the implants are 220cc I think (the smallest that would work with diameter) - and they are under muscle and teardrop shaped which should all lead to them looking smaller than last time.