Post-Op Day 10

ALL 4 DRAINS are OUT...WOOT WOOT, stitches around belly button are gone too! WOOHOO. I am now down officially 15 pounds(thank you LORD!), I still have edema around my hips to "go some where". I have about 3-4 pounds still to go with what they took off in the OR (remember I lost 11 before surgery) I now have very strict NO LIFTING orders and CONTINUE to TAKE IT EASY. I'm allowed to get out and walk around my culdesac "occasionally not daily" He (the surgeon) gave me back a binder to wear. The problem for me is I just don't have much body at 4'11 I seem to be mostly legs, he kinda laughed when I pointed that out and said you really don't have much of a trunk, especially now, but it sure is a nice shape." That is the most humor I have seen out of him. BUT it did make me feel good to see he is happy with how I'm doing and I can tell he is pleased with the results of his artistianship. He was kinda amazed I'm off pain meds except to sleep, and he was very happy at how the bruising has really decreased to the lipo sites, the area that had opened is healing well and he feels fine I am off antibiotics now.

As you all know I still can't drive and Allie is my driver so of course she goes into the appointments with me. Now, this is a girl that cried after watching me get stitches in my arm so I really wondered how she was going to handle watching 8 inches of drains come out of my belly. She kinda had a shocked look on her face and jerked her head back and just looked at me with those huge brown eyes and said, "Did that hurt?" No, it really doesn't, one much of my abdomen is still numb and two it feels like a soft tube is traveling out, slight wormy moving pressure is how I describe it, absolutely no pain. She said she thought the drains would be a couple of inches long, she had no idea, that was her shock. The stitches coming out of my bellybutton didn't hurt either, I'm still numb there :). I am getting some feeling back in my belly probably 2 inches to either side of my belly button including that and straight down to my incision is numb. It is weird but NO area below my incision is numb at all. I do still have numbness on both hip liposuction sites BUT it is decreasing and it itches as it does. I have to wear a t-shirt under my binder because it will continue to rub my sides. This binder is only about 5-6 inches in width but it covers me entirely right below my breasts to where my thighs bend. It really is kinda nice to have the binder since I'm coughing some and having to blow my nose to clear the thick crud that is tried to take residence there, it just is that external support you need. I think it will be great to sleep in too...

Alright, Allie had to go to work BUT she is going to take pictures when she gets home tonight so I might post them later on. Actually, going to the doc made me tired, we stopped and got bagels at Panara, they have that great deal of 13 for about 13 dollars with 2 tubs of cream cheese. I LOVE those asagio cheese bagels with a tad of butter, that is lunch for me....Hunter can eat 3 for a snack....LOL

So good news at the doctors, he thinks I will need 6-8 full weeks of recovery, he is honestly I think most concerned about my upper muscles he closed in my abdomen, if not for that repair I think I would be back to normal much faster. Ok a lot of activity for one day....I think I'm going to take a nap and listen to some Andrew....;)