Buttock Augmentation with Fat Grafting- Dr. Jimerson - Suwanee, GA

Hey! I'm 2 weeks post op as of yesterday. I sat on my Boppy pillow and yoga roll yesterday for the first time. Not bad. I haven't returned to work yet. I am back in my home town. We left GA early because I felt up to the ride. My BF drove back and I laid on my stomach and sides in the backseat. I had to start wearing my compression stockings again for the trip because the nurses at Dr. J's said my clot risk would rise again during travel. We also had to pull over every few hours so I could stretch and walk to keep the blood flowing but we made it just fine. Before I left ATL, I had my post op appt and they took out the drain. I was 7 days post op. I also had 2 seromas in my lower abdomen which Kim drained in the office. Pain free. I left the office and went straight to lipo express and got a smaller garment. It was a [RS bleep] to get on and felt like it was cutting my circulation off around by butt. I couldn't even sleep well the first few nights. But now that I've had it for 7 days it feels fine and I can now fasten it on the tightest hooks. After I returned home, I saw that the seroma in the right side of my abdomen had filled again so I went toan area surgeons office and got it drained. However, I didn't bring my lipofoam with me to compress it as soon as it was emptied so I think it may have filled a little again since then. I will check it out after this weekend and LOTS of compression and see if I need to have it drained a third time. Other than that, everything is going well and I feel good. I have had the runs since the day before I left ATL. Not sure why. At first I didn't have much of an appetite but that has returned. I feel good. Just not sure why I don't have solid poop... Lolol So...so far so good. I did several lymphatic drainage massages before I left ATL and now I'm just massaging myself everyday to break up scar tissue.I can feel some lumps under my skin but when I massage them for a few seconds, they soften. Kim said I have to massage myself everyday for three months and then my body will give up on making scar tissue. Here is a before and after picture. One pre op and one 2 weeks out. Dr. J is the man.

Hey girls! Had surgery on Thursday. Its Sunday an everything is going fabulously. I hardly have any pain. Just a bit of stiffness when I first get up. I've been drinking massive amounts of water and pineapple juice. The day after my surgery, one of Dr. J's nurses came out to my hotel room and helped me take off the garment for the first time, removed my dressings, washed me, gave me a lymphatic massage, redressed my drain and helped me get back into my garment and add lipo foam to the sides so I won't get permanent dents from the garment. She also showed me and my BF how to do the massages ourselves so we could save some money. Great service the nurses at Dr.J's are offering. It was only $100 and was well worth it. Oh and she also washed and dried my garment for me too. I got out today and went to Walmart. Not bad at all. I had my first post op BM yesterday too. Trying not to poop on your garment is murder!! Lololol Oh and the lymphatic massage feels like burning death...but you'll feel like a limp noodle afterwards!

Here are a few post ops. I just got up to stretch and empty my drain and snapped a few. Oh also, I called Dr. J's office after hours because I didn't know if what was coming out in my drain bottle was normal or not. I got an after hours call service operator and expected to get a nurse on the line... But after a 2 minute hold she connected me to Dr.J himself! I was so surprised! He let me know that what I was seeing in my drain was normal...that it was just gravity pulling the blood apart. Let me describe it so you guys will know what I mean andknow what it is if you see it. The regular red drainage is on the bottom, there is a slightly less red, pinkish color in the middle and something that looks just like yellow cooking oil on the top. Three layers. Interesting. When I empty the drain into the toilet, the oily looking stuff separates in the water just like fat...so maybe that's what it is. Dr. J said He removed the maximum 5000 ccs of fat!! Can't wait to see how this turns out!