Clematis
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My Sharpei will be dead on Thursday. This swaying belly, thigh and ass skin that has been dogging me will be down the disposer. SO excited!!! I was in Europe for the past month where toilets were not as clean as I would like and it grossed me out to discover my thighs were puddling over the sides of the toilet seat and on to the icky porcelain. Never again.
I'm getting the full abdominoplasty (stomach muscles will be tightened, not just skin removal) and have been told that is the part that will be the most painful and debilitating. However the surgeon tells me he doesn't tighten the muscles the same way for someone my age (64) as for someone half my age who might want a coin to bounce off their belly. He says that if he did, I would not be able to stand upright for three months and my back would be screaming. He is taking a "scoop" out of pubis to lift the saggy girly bits a little. This guy does nice little navels. (some surgeons make friggin' portholes)
He is going to do autologous butt augmentation which means he will cut at the base of my ass (or where it should be) then haul up the skin from the backs of thighs and stitch it in line with the top of butt crack. I vacillated about agreeing to this but both he and his assistant said my flat ass would be even flatter after the LBL and I could look deformed without a little something. After a lifetime of having and being called a fat ass, I have become fond of my flat butt and have told him be can only create a baby butt - just enough to keep underpants from riding up. PS: an LBL will not help my draping inner thighs, which must be addressed in another surgery.
Note: some surgeons define LBL as merely a tummy tuck with a belt lipectomy where they remove a paltry inch or two of skin in the lower back - no butt or thigh lift included. I interviewed a surgeon who was only going to do that useless surgery (i don't really have excess skin on my hips as its all dropped south) but who insisted it was a "lower body lift". One has to grill plastic surgeons as thoroughly as we do DS surgeons.
I was originally booked for LBL and breast lift but decided 8 hours under general anesthetic was too much. I'll go back later this summer for breast lift and lower face lift and inner thighs. I am not going to do my arms.
My surgeon does not use Exparel as he says it is way too expensive (the wholesale price is $500) and percocet at home works just as well. Besides I will be in the hospital overnight and he says I can even stay a second night if I'm not ready so I'll be where they can give me IV morphine. Exparel is good for drive-by surgeries where one goes from a surgery center recovery room to home. I have hired an RN to be with me for 3 days post-op and deal with the drains but I'm hoping I will be feeling ok enough to let her go after the first day.
(To make this surgery utterly perfect, it would be groovy if I could pass a kidney stone or two or three while unconscious.)
SUPPLY LIST:
I have a walker left over from my father (who never used it). I don't know if I'll need it but some have said they did.
I bought a down-n-dirty power recliner/lift chair from Overstock ($325 delivered) when I learned that a medical supply company would charge $250 rental for 2 weeks... and another $250 if I rented it again at the end of the summer. Not the most attractive thing, nor would it fit a big guy, but hey I'm 5'5" and now only weigh 123 (!!!) so it fits me fine. I had just wanted a recliner but now I realize just how great the lift chair part of it will be. It practically stands me fully upright! I'm going to live in it 24/7 for this surgery and the next surgery and then hide it away in a guest bedroom or sell it on CraigsList.
I already had a bazillion disposable bed pads that a late elderly dog used as piddle pads.
I have a supply of "female urinary devices" -- essentially cardboard hotdog buns through which I can pee standing up. But I also have an over-the-toilet seat with arms for um, things that must happen sitting.
I have both a plastic in-shower seat and a fancy, metal shower seat that one sits on outside the shower and then can slide into shower. I also have two plastic salon drapes -- one for front and back -- so my sutures won't get wet and someone can wash my hair. (I can't go 10 days without washing my hair.) I have a porcelain bidet but don't know if I get down on it as it is lower than the toilet. I may have to wash nether regions with hand held in the shower.
I have a plethora of too-big baggy pants and underpants to go over swollen and tender body and that can be ruined with sanguineous fluids.
Can anyone think of anything else I may need?
I was nervous when I was going to do both breast lift and LBL at the same time but am utterly calm for just the LBL. I like the idea of being able to push up with my arms and pecs when my abs are screaming.
Wish me luck!
I'm getting the full abdominoplasty (stomach muscles will be tightened, not just skin removal) and have been told that is the part that will be the most painful and debilitating. However the surgeon tells me he doesn't tighten the muscles the same way for someone my age (64) as for someone half my age who might want a coin to bounce off their belly. He says that if he did, I would not be able to stand upright for three months and my back would be screaming. He is taking a "scoop" out of pubis to lift the saggy girly bits a little. This guy does nice little navels. (some surgeons make friggin' portholes)
He is going to do autologous butt augmentation which means he will cut at the base of my ass (or where it should be) then haul up the skin from the backs of thighs and stitch it in line with the top of butt crack. I vacillated about agreeing to this but both he and his assistant said my flat ass would be even flatter after the LBL and I could look deformed without a little something. After a lifetime of having and being called a fat ass, I have become fond of my flat butt and have told him be can only create a baby butt - just enough to keep underpants from riding up. PS: an LBL will not help my draping inner thighs, which must be addressed in another surgery.
Note: some surgeons define LBL as merely a tummy tuck with a belt lipectomy where they remove a paltry inch or two of skin in the lower back - no butt or thigh lift included. I interviewed a surgeon who was only going to do that useless surgery (i don't really have excess skin on my hips as its all dropped south) but who insisted it was a "lower body lift". One has to grill plastic surgeons as thoroughly as we do DS surgeons.
I was originally booked for LBL and breast lift but decided 8 hours under general anesthetic was too much. I'll go back later this summer for breast lift and lower face lift and inner thighs. I am not going to do my arms.
My surgeon does not use Exparel as he says it is way too expensive (the wholesale price is $500) and percocet at home works just as well. Besides I will be in the hospital overnight and he says I can even stay a second night if I'm not ready so I'll be where they can give me IV morphine. Exparel is good for drive-by surgeries where one goes from a surgery center recovery room to home. I have hired an RN to be with me for 3 days post-op and deal with the drains but I'm hoping I will be feeling ok enough to let her go after the first day.
(To make this surgery utterly perfect, it would be groovy if I could pass a kidney stone or two or three while unconscious.)
SUPPLY LIST:
I have a walker left over from my father (who never used it). I don't know if I'll need it but some have said they did.
I bought a down-n-dirty power recliner/lift chair from Overstock ($325 delivered) when I learned that a medical supply company would charge $250 rental for 2 weeks... and another $250 if I rented it again at the end of the summer. Not the most attractive thing, nor would it fit a big guy, but hey I'm 5'5" and now only weigh 123 (!!!) so it fits me fine. I had just wanted a recliner but now I realize just how great the lift chair part of it will be. It practically stands me fully upright! I'm going to live in it 24/7 for this surgery and the next surgery and then hide it away in a guest bedroom or sell it on CraigsList.
I already had a bazillion disposable bed pads that a late elderly dog used as piddle pads.
I have a supply of "female urinary devices" -- essentially cardboard hotdog buns through which I can pee standing up. But I also have an over-the-toilet seat with arms for um, things that must happen sitting.
I have both a plastic in-shower seat and a fancy, metal shower seat that one sits on outside the shower and then can slide into shower. I also have two plastic salon drapes -- one for front and back -- so my sutures won't get wet and someone can wash my hair. (I can't go 10 days without washing my hair.) I have a porcelain bidet but don't know if I get down on it as it is lower than the toilet. I may have to wash nether regions with hand held in the shower.
I have a plethora of too-big baggy pants and underpants to go over swollen and tender body and that can be ruined with sanguineous fluids.
Can anyone think of anything else I may need?
I was nervous when I was going to do both breast lift and LBL at the same time but am utterly calm for just the LBL. I like the idea of being able to push up with my arms and pecs when my abs are screaming.
Wish me luck!
