Getting my groove back

6 weeks is a milestone not some miraculous event. I found I wasn’t 100% and I still was unable to do most ab exercises at 6 weeks. It can really mess with your head, especially when you’ve been working toward this point for a month and a half telling yourself it will all be worth it if you an just make it to 6 weeks. It can really depress you when you still have swelling and can’t do all the things you imagined after fixing your muscles.
BUT! I am a bit straighter every day. I have been getting outside more with the nicer spring weather which help my recovery blues. And slowly I am able to do more and get more of a glimpse at the final result. A small set back has been seeing more stretch marks appear or reappear darker and it can really ruin your day when you have been so excited to be rid of them. But the coconut oil has been helping, and hopefully the will fade again in time. I’m still wearing my binder plus other compression garments around the clock to help support me and control swelling. I can not wait to be done with them!!! I hope to ceremoniously burn them when I’m finally healing and I can flaunt my new body uninhibited!

Tried to perk myself up by putting on some cute underwear instead of the big panties I had been wearing my whole recovery for comfort. Still bent, but getting a better idea of how things will look. While my inverted T incision that’s visible above my panties screams “I HAD A TUMMY TUCK!” I am hoping over time this fades just like my stretch marks did and it won’t be so prominent.

Weeks 2 & 3 got progressively better but inch by inch, which is really hard when you’re desperate to see progress. I still was walking hunched over, still very sore and super tight and having trouble sleeping due to not being able to find a comfortable position and unable to sleep on my side.

Around this time my sensitive skin also broke out around my incision likely from a reaction to the surgical glue that I was asked to keep on until week 3. You can see the reaction in one of my pics. So itchy and awful. I was so relieved when I could remove the glue and start putting the coconut oil on everything.

Still pretty swollen, mostly around my abs and incisions, definitely worse in the evenings and after more activity. Around this time I began worrying my belly button wouldn’t flatten out or ever go back to innie status. I confess this is probably my biggest disappointment even though I’m so excited to have my belly be so much flatter.