The Night Before

I am 19 days Post-op. I really love my stomach it has such a natural contour it looks like I had it all along. The swelling is not joke. It hurts stomach gets sooo tight all I can do is try to massage out swelling and tightness. I am learning I can’t eat the same and portion size is a lot smaller than it use to be. So I have found out vegetables and high protein I have no reaction no gas and minimum swelling. So now I’m working on diet and I have been walking every other day on treadmill for @ 20min since my two week mark.

Ok! Here we go! Surgery day is here I am nervous, and anxious. This journey has been so enlighten, and it is helping me grow in so many ways. Three weeks ago my surgery was cancelled because I had nicotine in my system (from smoking blunts) so I order me some COT test off Amazon to test my urine for tobacco and nicotine. Everything is going along fine I did the first test on my daughter who smokes she was positive I wanted to be sure the test were good. So I stop smoking blunts and I used cigarette rolling papers. After about 4 days I test my urine it came out negative so I knew I was good. So I started doing the stair stepper at gym for 30min 2-3x a week if I could get it in. The Tuesday before my Friday surgery I break out with poison ivy from waist up but heavily on my face and neck (will insert pic) my fear my surgery will be cancelled again ( now I JUST want to get it over with) . So I email my pic to nurse who wanted to make sure my throat and face wasn't swollen. I got the ok for surgery THANK GOD! I have skin reaction to poison ivy not internal (so I have rash without swelling) and my urine test was negative so I was good to go ( I added Juvederm to my lips at the last minute $600). I did this because I wanted everything to be healing at once. The staff was AWESOME! at 6:30am in the morning, so we got started. Everything was wonderful! When surgery was over I felt like I had just took a nap, I had no nausea. When I got home to my surprise I could walk at 3/4 straight up not humped over like most people report. I keep pain meds in me even when I feel like I don't need it, I want to keep meds built up in my system so I won't experience much pain. I'm sleeping in my bed with pillows the only pain I have is swinging my legs on and off bed I have to have help with that. On the scale of 1-10 10 been the highest my pain level is @ 3 or 4 I believe this is due to my doctors pre-op rules on what not to do two weeks prior to surgery, and me taking a lot of protein .

Surgery day July 20th. Excited about surgery, very calm actually I look forward to recovering so I can begin a new journey, Went in staff is great! I took a urine test and it came back positive for nicotine to my surprise so surgery was cancelled. I was surprised and disappointed. I tested positive for nicotine because I smoke blunts sometimes and the the cigars have nicotine ( since my hysterectomy blunts help me sleep at night, I never thought about it having nicotine). So I thanked God for this revelation because something like this could be harmful to my procedure and future health. I am rescheduled for surgery again in three weeks, so I going to take this time to start my new journey today. I have begun to drank a gallon of water a day, drink ginger tea, exercise several times a week, and use the fascia blaster every other day to begin to loosen, massage, circulate the fascia in my legs, butt, arms, can back. I have to say after getting over the initial soreness my body feels good and feels like I've been stretching.