TAPE IS OFF! 2 week pics, update day 17!

THE TAPE IS OFF! and the incision is revealed (see 2 week pics)I am very happy. Binder can come off except for periods of high activity but I am wearing it much more than that. PS is very happy and so am I. Vitamin E is what I am to use so that is what I am doing! I am now 148, 7 pounds under my pre-surgery weight and off of the diuretics that I needed from extreme swelling. Crazy part is that I was up 17 pounds higher than my surgery weigh of 155 at one point, lost 21 pound in one week with the diuretic. Crazy! I started lymphatic drainage massage two days ago. That was amazing and really hard to explain the different feelings and sensations it gave me in my abdomen. It is particularly helpful for the knotty boulders in & around my lymph glands. Much, much better. Still having some issues sleeping but that is getting better. I returned to work a week ago (at 10 days) and that has been quite an adjustment. Typical tiredness late in the day. I have a job where I am pretty active so by 5pm I am done!! I am cleared for a vacation in a week, with three flights to get there! I am excited to have the rest of my recovery poolside, hopefully with cabana boys ! I will get two massages next week and then have to see what size bathing suit I will fit into. This was an amazing process. My biggest problem is dressing so that I don’t show off my new body too much to colleagues that don’t know what I had done. My breasts are still about one cup size bigger from the fat injections – also a really great procedure. The PS said that the lipo he did around the bra fat , back area under my underarms actually made the biggest different in accentuating the work he did with the breast transfer. I have to say that I am very pleased that I did that procedure. I was too much of a whimp to do the breast reduction or surgical augmentation but this is has been perfect for me! I hope everyone else is doing well be at starting out, contemplating future procedures or recovering like me!

My biggest pants & skirts are now in a pile to donation. I am 3 pounds less than prior to surgery. I am so friggin' happy with how the tummy tuck and lipo has turned out. I still have deep bruising and sweling at the flank lipo site. I have a little brusing at the lipo sites on my former bra fat areas and the injection areas. My tape is still on my scar. I am now stuffing gauze in my belly button daily. Gross, gross, gross. It looks super skinny so I am trying to widen it out a bit! Honestly, my biggest problem is that I went back to work on Day 9 last week and I haven't told coworkers what surgery I had. I have been very sketch about it. Now I just need to find clothes that don't show it off too much. CRAZY!!! I wish the best to all of sister TT'ers and the future sisters that go this week!

Slept in my bed first time last night. I woke up at 3am, must have freaked out because I had some pain and took a hydrochodone, which I have been taking only one or so each night. Zonked me until everyone had left the house this morning. I am not really that sad that I missed sending everyone off to school and work haha. The diuretic is working slowly but my legs and ankles are still swollen a bit. Big headache so now i am pumping the water in! Here are some pics of my day 8 look. Bruising is so much better. I am very pleased with the fat transfer that I had done!