2 months post-op and doing well!!!

It's been two months since my surgery and I'm pretty happy with the results. I'm running regularly and recently added kettle bell workouts a few times a week. My ab muscles are hurting more as a result but I gues that's to be expected. I still have swelling at the end of the day, which I hate. I can't wait for swell hell to end.

Sorry I haven't been posting much, I've been busy enjoying my summer. Back to work on Tuesday :(.

Hope all mt fellow 6/29ers are doing well.

Here I am at the 4 week mark. I am feeling really well and happy to be done with the draining. My ps drained me daily for a week. I don't need to see him again until Thursday. I feel like I've turned another corner because he also gave me permission to go running. I went this morning and did 3 miles very slowly with walking breaks. I wore my CG and definitely felt some nerve tingling and tightening in my lower abs but no pain there. I did tend to hunch and had to continuously correct my form because I would feel it in my lower back. I took a few ibuprofen and a nap today and I feel pretty good. I'll give myself a day and run again on Monday. One of the hardest things about the recovery process for me has been feeling like Im stuck in the house and no being able to get my endorphins going!

I have no more pain in my tummy but I do get some strange feelings now and again. My muscles still feel tender and my belly is still unnaturally hard but I know that will soften in time. Also, I have quite a bit of swelling in my lower abs and down by my pubs. I hear it takes at least three months for this to go away. Patience is the name of this game.

Along the past 4 weeks, I definitely had days where I doubted whether or not I did the right thing but Im starting to more consistently feel like I definitely did the right thing. My flab abs are a thing of the past and the recovery is definitely worth the results.

Happy 3 weeks fellow 7/29ers!! So let me update...dealing with a seroma. My ps has been draining every day this week. I see him again tomorrow morning. Each time he taps me there is less and less fluid so I hope we are coming to the end of this phase of recovery. I have been working at a camp for a few hours in the morning for the past 2 weeks, I have one more week to go and then that gig ends and I am pretty much off until the last week of August. I'm so glad to be off, I need this time and don't know how anyone goes back to work full time after two weeks or has little kids to take care off.

I'm feeling pretty good, just soooooo bored. I want to get back to exercising. I miss it a lot. I also feel like this summer has been passing by, partially because of the heat we've had in NY. You'd think I was in FL. Can't go outside - too hot - it drains me. Today we got some relief - with rain! LOL. My incision is healing really well, so far no puckering, but that might change. I definitely have swelling and tightening. BUT...I CAN SLEEP ON MY SIDE!!!!!!! What a relief that is. I know I have to post some more pics and I will soon.

So, how is everyone else healing?