Tummy Tuck, Muscle repair with lipo

Just wanted to give a 4 week update. Still hating my bellybutton, and still keeping it covered. I can’t wait for my follow up in a couple of weeks to hopefully come up with a plan to fix this asap. I’m miserable about it. I feel like with plastic surgery we have an idea of what we want and think it’s going to be perfect right away. However, it doesn’t always pan out that way and that’s just part of it all.
I do want to say that my incision is looking pretty good from the tummy tuck. The cut is thin and healing nicely. All the clips that he had glued on to keep the tension off my incision have fallen off. Which by the way, I loved the clips being on there. Nothing was able to rub on my cut and they held up for almost 4 weeks. I’m still sore in the spots he did lipo, or maybe I should say more of a tender feeling. I’m still pretty swollen and even more so by the end of the day. I have been doing daily walks and trying to get an average of 10,000 steps a day. I can’t wait to start going back to the gym to lift weight.

Each day I feel like I’m getting back to my normal self. It’s not a sprint it’s a marathon.

Feel pretty depressed about my bellybutton at the moment. When I woke up I was told that my bellybutton was turning white when he sewed it down how he normally does. Meaning he thought it was lacking oxygen so he released some in the stitches which left me with a massive outie. Not joke it looks like a protruding cat butthole. I know he did what he knew was best in the moment I just wish things turned out differently for me. I’m now left feeling so self conscious and depressed about it. I got this surgery to feel confident in my skin but now I feel worse than I did before. He told me it will go down and go in as things settle but it may take 6-12 months for that improvement. There is NO WAY I can wait that long looking like this. We are hopefully going to talk about revising it at my next follow up. I’m hoping asap so I don’t have to spend another summer covered up.

Dr.Anzarut has been great from the beginning of my research to now. I am not 3.5 weeks post op. I feel like he truely cares about his patients and has answered all my questions in a timely matter. He gives you his personal number to contact him at any time during them early post operative day. That came in handy a few times and he never seemed annoyed when I would reach out. His after care and communication have gone beyond my expectations.
I unfortunately don’t have the cutest belly button right now due to a surgical complication. That has caused me sone sadness. However, he is willing to fix that as soon as it’s safe to do so. Other than that I am loving my results so far. I can’t wait to see what it all looks like once the swelling continues to go down. Can’t thank him enough for the life changing surgery.