Body by Dr Davison! - Washington, DC

I am a mother of two beautiful children of a 3yr and a 1 yr old . Both of my pregnancies were very large. I am 5'0 on a good day and both children were over 9 pounds not including that I had a lot of extra fluid around them. Add a little weight gain and my belly ended up a disaster. I am obviously very self conscious as well as it affecting my ability to find clothes. I just don't feel strong in my tummy despite working out. I decided to consult with a plastic surgeon. He found a small hernia at the top of my abdomen as well as the separation of abdomen muscles. He recommended I get the fluer de lis abdominoplasty due to the elasticity in my skin, also some Lipo to help shed down the fat off my flanks and back. I then requested if I can have the fat transferred to my butt . So I will have total of three procedures done Fluer de lis Abdominoplasty,Brazilian but lift and Lipo as well as hernia repair. Am I crazy to do this all at once? I hope that I am able to obtain the results I am seeking. I am little concerned how the recovery will go because I have the two little ones to keep up with when I get back home. I will have four days where will my husband will here to take care of me and the kids but after that I will have to find help because he works out of state. Also I have a history of mrsa after my c-section so that is also HUGE concern of mine. The doctor seems confident that everything will be fine. I have to get a swab done to make sure I am not a carrier of Mrsa and also my pre-op blood work. He plans on keeping me overnight in the hospital for one night possibly two if my pain is not managed. Then home with a pain pump. I am VERY excited to get my body back and then some.

So it's getting to be crunch time. I have to make the final payment to my doctor on the 22nd of this month. I was sent the consent forms yesterday evening to look over and sign. I also recieved a list of all the things that I can't have because it thins blood or it affects the clotting time. This list includes things I eat on regular basis such as almonds,ginger.strawberries,cucumbers. crazy right? I have to also do a Mrsa scrape at the infectious disease doctor have a physical and have my pre-op blood work done. I literally feel like I have an appointment every day this week to clear me for surgery. I have two consults next week one with the nurse and one with Dr.Davison. Right now we are trying to work out details of who will help me care for my little ones when my husband leaves. I am not sure how I will feel after the surgery but if it is anything like my c-section then terrible. My husband will be home for the surgery on the 16th but leaves the 21st of may. So that will give me 5 days with solid help. I was told I can't lift anything over 5 pounds for two weeks which is a little hard considering that my 11 month old is 25 pound. Hopefully I will have a quick recovery with no complications. I will update this after my consult with the doctor next week.

The last couple weeks have been crazy busy. I feel like I have not stopped moving since April 1st hit. I have a wedding that I am the maiden of honor in which has consumed a lot of my time ,as well as working the horses, being a good mom and wife. The wedding is this coming weekend so after that I will feel a little less stress of that but will shortly be followed with other stresses I am sure.
A big update is that I have been sick for a good 6 days now with a nasty head cold. The lovely beautiful children from daycare, my son goes to, decided they wanted to share their germies with us. No one in the house was spared. I have lost my voice but it is now returning (my husband was thrilled with this. He threw his hands in the air the morning I walked downstairs and indicated my voice was gone and says "thank you Jesus my prayers have been answered. LOL) As you know being sick before a surgery is never good ,but I notified my doctor and just told me to keep them posted. I have 22 days to get better after all.

SO here is an update on the surgery. I decided to go with Dr. Davison and paid the remainder of the surgical fee of 5,492 to the plastic surgeon. (still need to pay hospital fee of 1,630) They ordered my pre op blood work that I completed on April 17th. At that time they also did an EKG,Mrsa culture and a full blood panel. My blood panel and EKG came back good but had low blood sugar of 63 (normal is 70) so they just told me to eat smaller more frequent meals. As far as Mrsa culture they called me and told me they need to redo the culture because the wrong lab was ordered. I am waiting on those results. Let you know what that comes back as though.

I had my consult with my RN Buffy at the plastic surgeons office on the 22nd.I loved her! She made me feel very comfortable and answered my laundry list of questions about post op and the surgery and just really took the time to make sure that I knew what to expect. I am staying one night in Sibley Memorial Hospital after surgery to manage any pain. She also called in all my prescriptions into the pharmacy which include Lovonox - A blood thinner which is injected into the abdomen to prevent blood clots, Zofran-anti-nasea medication, Colase - to help me poop and Bactroban- an ointment to put up my nose to help treat Mrsa as a preventive measure she also gave me a script for my narcotics to pick up prior to surgery. She did say that they were going to put me on an antibiotics but just looked through my bag and don't see it so I will call to double check that that was called in. She also requested I start taking a multi vitamin to keep me healthy. I also let her know I have a low pain tolerance and think I may be a bit of a wuss. She told me the pain pump should help for the first 3 days or so. EEEKKK,I hope so because if I stub my toe I am cussing people.

I had my last consult with Dr Davison today. My appointment was at 11:30 but wasn't seen until 12:30ish. (which I was fine with I made some real head way in my candy crush game). We added the BBL since my last consult with him so we talked about that today as well. Here is the readers digest of what the went on during this pre op appointment please note that I am paraphrasing ..... I stripped in my bra and panties and he was very much a gentleman compared to the other plastic surgeons I have seen who would man handle my "meat". He looked at me lifted up my tummy fluff and took a look at my "less than blessed" booty and agreed that I would benefit from the BBL. He then told me to get dressed because he didn't want to make it uncomfortable for me. (After having two kids I strip my clothes off before they even close the door to have me change but I did as I was told) They took more pre op pictures but this time naked so they could get a good view of my toosh. Then I dressed and leveled up on candy crush before he returned to the room .When he returned he said he was going to tailor the surgery to me and my body. He told me he would start off by lipoing my love handles he used the word "flanks", and contour my sides and inject about 400cc of fat into each cheek seems like a little to small amount for a butt to me because 400cc is roughly 1.8 cups of fat. Then he will flip me over make an incision from hip to hip pulling in my sides and then doing panniculectomy portion of the tummy tuck. Depending on how much excess skin I have when he pulls the skin from the sides he will then make his decision if he is going to give me the Fluer-de-Lis (vertical incision). Or if I can get the best results without it. I also requested he lipo the upper part of my vajay area. He did warn me that sometimes things are not always symmetrical for example that their may be a bulge pocket on my upper abdomen depending on healing. He offered a revision surgery if the results were not what I would like free of charge. If revision is done in office and was minor I wouldn't have to pay anything if it was a bigger revision it would be have to be done under general anesthesia their would be the cost of that but would waive his fees. Let me just say not every surgeon offers this so I think it is great that he is standing behind his work it shows confidence and also that he is not all about the money. Though I would rather pay a little more for the best. He told me the first 2 weeks are going to be rough and I am not going to know why I did it until a month out or so. My line drawing pre op is the day before surgery on the 15th but I will update you sooner than later!