Tummy Tuck/lipo/and Maybe Fat Transfer to Buttocks - Saint Clair, MI

Thank you for all the well wishes and prayers! I am doing ok just recovering at home. I have a nurse that comes everyday to pack and change the dressing on my wound. I am a little sad because I went through all this to improve my looks and now am not sure how everything will turn out. I will have a permanent scar from the wound on my hip, the fat transfer didn't take and the lipo results are minimal probably because I cant wear the compression. The tummy tuck is the only thing that looks like it worked. I don't believe I will ever want to do anything like this again in the future :( I have also completely lost confidence in my surgeon as I feel this could have been prevented. I am sure he will offer revision surgery but how can I trust and feel comfortable after all that I have been through? Sorry if this sounds whiney but I am feeling very depressed about the whole thing!

Ladies... I have not updated till now because I have been in the hospital fighting for my life. Please take surgery very seriously!! What I thought to be the beginnings of pneumonia was nothing compared to what actually was wrong with me. My surgery was Jan. 13th which was a Wednesday. I went home surgery day and everything was typical. I had my first post op appt. Jan 18th with the nurse to have bandages and 1 drain removed. I was disappointed that DR. was not there to see me especially since I have a 2-1/2 hour drive to get there. He wasn't in the office as it was Martin Luther King Day. Nurse said I looked great although I felt ill and my right hip was very sore where the fat transfer was placed and it was distorted looking and swollen. Nurse said that was normal swelling and all would be well. Not thinking much of it I went home. On the way home I had terrible chills and felt fevered. I took Tylenol and went to bed. My temperature was reading low grade 100 degree fever but would sometimes spike to 102- 103 through the night. I had a terrible cough so I kept thinking pneumonia. I was in contact with my nurse and the doctor and they advised to piggy back advil and Tylenol to keep the fever down. The doctor prescribed antibiotics over the phone. This went on for the next 3 nights in the meantime my hip was so sore that I could not sit on it at all. I took pictures of how distorted my back side looked and how swollen my hip was and sent to the Dr. and nurse. Dr. asked me to come in to see him the next morning that was Friday the 22nd. We made the trip out and he looked me over. He thought that it was cellulitus and was going to give me another antibiotic then changed his mind and said I should go to ER. We went back to Canada and went to ER. I was admitted into the hospital and while sitting in the ER my hip started to ooze and infection was pouring out. They did emergency surgery to remove the infection in my hip but it was also in my blood. Sepsis!! They weren't even sure they could save my leg never mind save me! It was very frightening and I feel so terrible for putting y family through all this. I spent 6 days in the hospital being pumped with 3 different antibiotics and fluids. I am now recovering at home with an open would on my hip at the site of the infection and have a nurse that comes daily to pack and dress the wound apparently it has to heal on its own from the inside out. I will be left with a 1inch by 1 inch hole from this and my results from the lipo and tummy tuck will not be very good because I have not been able to wear compression or binders and as far as the fat transfer to buttocks I am disfigured. I am very sad and depressed that I have done this to myself and my family. Looking back my body was not that bad and I wish I could have just loved myself the way I was. I read so many reviews and people seemed so happy with their results but that is not the case for everyone. So please think this through and learn about all the complications that can happen it is very serious.

So after my outing yesterday to my first post op appt I felt terrible had chills and fever was 103 at 11:30 last night. So I loaded up on Tylenol and managed to keep it at 101 through the night. I called PS this morning and he ordered some antibiotics for me saying I may have pneumonia setting in or I caught a bug when I was out. I'm thinking it's more like pneumonia because I've had a fever of 100 since the surgery and have had a cough as well.