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Category: plastic surgery

  • My excess skin reality!

  • Inspiration and finding things we weren’t looking for

    This morning I woke up thinking about all the things that I have found on this little walk I have taken towards health. Most of the things that mean the most to me now, I wasn’t even looking for, and I certainly didn’t expect to find. I was reading something today – a story I…

  • Monday – 12 Days Post Op.

    Today I am feeling better than I thought I would be. Yes I am sore still but that soreness is becoming less and less. There is some pressure in the middle of my tummy that I am wondering about? Perhaps a seroma or perhaps something else. Anyway I am going to mention it to the…

  • Day 7 Post Op

    So today is day 7. I have had a long hard kind of today today. I feel overwhelmed and sore. My body aches from being in the same position for long stretches of time and my back hurts from maintaining the hunched over position that is required to not put strain on the muscle repair…

  • Hospital

    My hospital admission quickly became something that I NEVER expected it to be. I went in on Wednesday for a bi-lateral Breast Reduction and an Tummy Tuck after my big weight loss. I went into surgery fully aware of the risks because of my former size!! I was first surgery of the day and was…

  • Flappage Be Gone

    Tomorrow is the day! Oh my word – the nerves abound. I feel anxious in ways that I didn’t think were possible. My ole mate, the wibbly wobbly excess tummy skin is about to be removed AND my breasts shall be gravity defying chin pillows! I am quietly hopeful, expectant, excited and ready for the…

  • Trepidation

    Next week is plastic surgery week, next Wednesday is plastic surgery day! And I am not going to sugar coat it, well I rarely do that anyway haha – Im scared. Yesterday I got notified that my blood test results were good and I had been approved for surgery!!! So now we are go for…

  • 2 Weeks Today

    I am feeling just a touch overwhelmed by the fact that it is just two short weeks until my skin removal surgery. I will have a lap without an abundance of extra me in it! WOW

  • Plastic Surgery

    15 months post Gastric Bypass12 years post Lap Band – 9 years post Lap RemovalHW 143CW low 50’s  It hasn’t been an easy road – heck it’s still not. There are days when I doubt the choice I made but honestly the only way now is forward! So forward I am going!! I am so…