Rough recovery but happy for a flat belly

My tummy tuck went relatively smoothly, although my recovery from the anesthesia was the roughest I've experienced (and I've been through anesthesia for surgery 7 or 8 times before). My scar is at least one inch higher on the left hip vs the right and looks crooked but I'm not too concerned about that. I have a large vertical incision which I understand cannot always be avoided. My belly looks much better after birthing 7 babies (one set of twins, and 5 of which were surrogate babies). However, if I had it to do over again, I would go to a different surgeon who uses fresh skin and creates a new belly button. Mine is just okay- it has the incision around it and apparently uses my original belly button which was really stretched out. After I scheduled with Dr. Turkle, I found surgeons on realself who create a new belly button which looks much better! The only other issue I had was after driving 2 hours each direction for follow up appointments, being rushed out of the office after 5 minutes with a nurse and 5 minutes with Dr. Turkle. Often my questions and concerns were left unanswered and I had to email to follow up, which often received more attention than my in-person appointments.