31, No Kids, Loose Skin After Weight Loss, Tummy Tuck with Lipo to Flanks, Breast Lift and Augmentation. Spokane, WA

Yesterday I met with Dr. Wheeler to take a final set of pictures and look at my results. Everything is healing beautifully. I'm back to my regular activity level. My scars at at their darkest and I still think they look great. They should start to lighten in the next few months.

I'm still loving my results. This past weekend I competed in a long distance ruck race and we won 1st for a co-ed team. I hiked 15 miles up and down a peak with a 30 pound backpack. It's hard to believe that surgery was only at the end of March because I'm feeling amazing. Yoga is going well, I started going again a couple weeks ago. The first few times were terrible because I couldn't even do the easy stuff, but now I'm able to get into a full backbend again and do most of the hand balances that I used to do. Each time I've gone to yoga I feel more of the internal stitches popping. It worried me at first but now I make it a goal to break them because it means I'm getting deeper into the poses. I also went back to rock climbing a few times a week. My strength isn't anywhere near what it was but I'm definitely making progress. I don't know if the Scar Away strips are actually doing anything. I wear them as much as possible but it's a pain in the ass to wash and dry them, and sometimes they catch on my clothes and get rolled up. I panicked the other day because I thought I had a bug or something in my pants but it was a scar strip that rolled up and dropped down my leg. My TT scar burns on my sides in the mornings, like when I roll over and sit up to get out of bed, and I still don't have feeling below the navel. When I touch certain areas I get an electric shock feeling. The scar is a bright pinkish/purple color and it's fairly flat. My belly button is tan/brown inside and I'm not sure if it will ever lighten up.

I'm finally at the point where I can wear jeans all day and not be uncomfortably swollen. All of my pants are a little loose in the waist now but they still fit my butt and thighs. Jeans used force a weird stomach/skin overhang in the front that I wore big t-shirts to hide. But now they sit nicely on my hips.

I'm still using ScarAway strips on my TT incision. I ordered the c-section size (7.5" x 1.5") from Amazon and they should be here in a few days. The ones I'm using now are shorter and it takes a lot of them to get all the way along the scar.

Monday I did a 16 mile hike with a 30 pound backpack. I'm planning to do that distance every Monday until the ruck race in mid-June. Tomorrow afternoon I'm going back to the climbing gym to start working my way back to where I was last summer.

One of the coolest things about having the abdominoplasty is that I can see my body changing as I get back into shape. I never got to see any progress before with all of the extra skin on my stomach. But now I can see my abs after a hard workout. In a few months I might be able to see them all them time.