New Year, New Me... - State College, PA

I have not updated for quite some time...
I am now at the point that I thought I would never reach! I FEEL LIKE ME AGAIN. It was a bit of a struggle there for awhile, but I am feeling better. I have been back to work for 3.5 weeks, working full time. The first week or so was incredibly exhausting! I am in dire need of a shopping trip for a reason I have not had in the past...my clothing is too big! Yay! Under my left breast, I did develop a small opening in my incision, but that has healed. The scars are darkening, but getting thinner, so I am hoping once they fad they will be much less noticeable.
Good luck to all of you out there considering plastic surgery, I think it was one of the best things I have ever done for myself.

Went for my 2 week appointment today and had my last 2 jp drains removed. One felt like a worm and the other one I did not feel at all! Yay for a good PA in my PS office!
She also removed the few non-dissolvable sutures and peeled off some of my dermabond.
They were both (the surgeon and her PA) very pleased with the results. I still have some swelling and a slight hematoma in my right breast, but nothing that was concerning to them. I will return in 2 weeks for a follow up and hopefully start to decrease the time I wear compression garments.

I did find out a piece of info from my PS that may be helpful to other ladies. I asked if instead of a stage 2 compression garment, I could just use spanx or flexees. She prefers the surgical garment because the spanx, etc sometimes have tighter compression in certain areas which can cause ridges in the skin/tissue if liposuction was done.

So, sticking with the binder for a while and might check out some web sites with surgical garments.

My husband and I went to the appointment and then to lunch. It was so nice to not have drains attached to me!

6 Days post op...
I am feeling ok, but when does the swelling start to go away?
I have lots of swelling along the sides of my breasts (incision line and lipo) and my flanks and upper abdomen. It looks like eventually there will be some nice contours there, but for now it looks and feels bloated, swollen, and disgusting! Where is the light at the end of the tunnel? How long can I expect to be swollen? And, is there anything I can do to spead up the process?