Lower Body Lift with Vaser Lipo of Thighs - Savannah, GA

I had my daughter in 2009. My highest weight while pregnant was 260 lbs. After giving birth my weight finally settled at around 215 lbs. I am 5'7 by the way. Last year I finally had enough. It was time to start taking better care of myself. I quit smoking cigarettes and shortly after I began working on improving other parts of my lifestyle needing to be improved. I slowly started cutting out the process foods out of my diet and begin exercising. After a year of (mostly) clean eating and exercise (mostly walking) I finally hit a healthy weight. I have continued with my healthy lifestyle and my weight has settled at 145lbs. That's a 70lb weight loss ( 115 lbs if you count my highest while pregnant). So of course I am left with some lose skin.

Yesterday I had my consult with Dr Curstinger. He is the first doctor I met with and I went fully expecting to meet with several doctors before settling on one. Dr Curtsinger as well his staff instantly put me at ease. Everyone was incredibly friendly, welcoming and answered all my questions. Because of my massive weight loss Dr Curtsinger recommended more then a tummy tuck. He believed I would benefit most from a lower body lift as well as a little bit of vaser lipo to my outer thighs. By doing the lower body lift, not only would it fix the loose skin on my belly, but also my back as well as my thighs and booty. He described everything that I wanted so I went ahead and booked my surgery. I decided to book an appointment sooner rather then later because I will be a bridesmaid in a friends wedding at the end of May and I want to make sure that I have enough time to recover enough to be able to enjoy the wedding. My doc said I would be good to go in 3 weeks and completely cleared for all activities in 6 weeks. The wedding will be 8 weeks from my surgery. I have done a lot of reading and I know this will be a rough recovery so as I see it the more time to recover the better. I go next Wednesday for my pre-op appointment. I am excited and nervous...

I decided to post more pics. It will be nice to have plenty to compare for before and after pics. I am starting to get anxious and nervous about the surgery. I am heterozygous Factor V Leiden as well as compound heterozygous MTHFR. Translation: I am more prone to blood clots. I have never had a blood clot or have a family history of blood clots. I actually found out when I had genetic testing done. I brought this up with my doctor and he is confident that it won't be a problem. He has treated others with FVL and MTHFR so he does have experience. He is going to have me on Lovenox just in case. I have full confidence in my doctor, but still a scary situation. I know my anxiety is just going to get worse has the big day approaches, but I know I really want to do this.