JazzyOne9254
Heal(ed)!
Aug 10, 2014
Made my visit to my plastic surgeon, and the incisions from my thigh reduction surgery are healed. The back side is still lumpy, and will need more surgery, but the frontal view is beautiful! There is some darker inner thigh skin showing at the groin area, but it could not be helped, because placing the scar all the way into my groin would have been difficult, if not impossible to heal. the straight vertical incision was not a choice for my thighplasty, because of the amount of skin. Also, the insurance only approved skin excision, not a thigh lift. The scars only matter when I'm "nekkid" or wearing a swimsuit, and I had already decided that the knee-length Fastskin competition swimsuit would be OK with me, for swimming and hiding most of the scars. They have a great ability to hold "things" in place and prevent jiggling, too! A lot of my thigh skin was very damaged from stretching, and I'm guessing that's why he decided to take the inner-thigh semi-spiral approach.
Now for the ones that will always be visible.
I had a lipoma (benign fatty tumor or deposit) on my left calf, just after the bend in my knee, that made my calves asymmetrical. The surgeon sculped the fatty tumor to the same size and shape of my right calf. He went with that, instead of complete removal, as that area is loaded with lymph nodes, and since I already have a llittle lymphedema, that would have just made it worse. The surgeon also removed skin from the inside of both knees, and those scars turned out to be hyper-pigmented (dark) and hypertrophic, which stops just short of becoming keloid. I may have to get shots of cortisone in the scars to flatten them out and lighten them, if OTC methods fail.
So now, attention turns to getting...and funding...plastics for the top half. I most definitely need new "girls", and the skin on my arms flaps like I'm trying to take flight! The estimate I got totals $15,000 dollars and change, at the surgeon's in-office surgical suite, and probably doubles inpatient at the hospital.
All in all, I feel so much better with all the skin gone, and size 12 pants now fit with no problem! I'm close to wearing one size all over - 8-10 Misses!
