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Plastic surgeon recommendations - Springfield, MA - Hi Y'all!   Wow, it has been so long since I've been on here - the last 2 and a half years flew by!  Well over a year ago I had a facelift, brow lift, neck lift and then an upper...

OMG!! Size 8! - I haven't seen a size 8 since I was 23 years old.  I went shopping Friday at lunch; the 10s felt a little big, so I tried an 8 and voila!  So exciting!

Rotator Cuff - Just need to whine a little...tendonitis flared up again.  Hurts to move my arm even just to brush my teeth.  I've had multiple cortison injections in this shoulder and am wonderin...

Panel Issues statement on Sleeve Gastrectomy to Gu - http://www.generalsurgerynews.com//ViewArticle.aspx?ses=ogst&d=Obesity+Care&d_id=410&i=ISSUE%3a+June+2012&i_id=857&a_id=21049 My dad emailed this article to me from General Surg...

The longest run of my life - Was tonight.  Not really, but it felt like it  The plastic surgeon cleared me today for exercise for the first time since I had my face/neck lift two weeks ago.  The 3 miles tonigh...

brow/neck/lower face lift - Day 13 - PICS - Xpost - Pics are on my profile (open to all).  Overally I'm happy, especially with the brow lift.  I'm still pretty swollen in the jaw/chin - it is hard to the touch there.  PS says can ...

brow/neck/lower face lift - Day 13 PICS - Pics are on my profile (open to all).  Overally I'm happy, especially with the brow lift.  I'm still pretty swollen in the jaw/chin - it is hard to the touch there.  PS says can ta...

brow/lower face/neck lift - day 7 X POST - Oh blessed relief - Dr. Leedy took the stitches out this morning!  I was itching like crazy, so it feels terrific having them out.  Everything is healing fine. We had a discussi...

brow/lower face/neck lift - Day 7 - Oh blessed relief - Dr. Leedy took the stitches out this morning!  I was itching like crazy, so it feels terrific having them out.  Everything is healing fine. We had a discussion ...

Round 1 of 3 of plastics done! - Hi Y'all, Well, last Friday I had the first of 3 plastic surgeries.  This one was a neck lift / lower facelift / brow lift.  When I was heavy I had a bad double chin, which defl...

brow lift/neck lift/lower face lift - Day 5 - Wow, huge huge improvement this morning over yesterday.  Black eyes are just about gone.  There is still a general overall kind of puffiness, but not grossly distorting like it was...

brow lift/neck lift/lower face lift - Day 4 - I look like a cabbage patch doll, I'm so swollen.  That being said, it's definitely better today than yesterday.  The forehead swelling from the brow lift, while still bad, has g...

back home from lower face lift / neck lift / brow - I went to the hospital 5:30 AM Friday.  Thank heaven my dad and sister came to town to help, so my husband was able to take me to the hospital while they got the kids off to school...

Supposed to have facelift this week but caught a c - It is scheduled for the end of the week, so I still have a few days.  I really hope it doesn't have to get moved because of this stupid cold.

question for the runners out there - Hi - I started running back in October of last year.  Did the c25k, then started a "35 week to a marathon" program.  I'm now at the point that I'm running 9 miles on my long run...

scheduled for mid June - I had my preop appointment last week, and I'm all set for a lower face lift, neck lift, and endoscopic brow lift in a couple of weeks!  I went back and forth between a Cleveland PS...

Funny NSV - Today I ran into a former colleague whom I haven't seen since I had the VSG.  At first he didn't recognize me, then when the light dawned, he said "Oh, you got rid of your glasses!...

NSV - with pic - So, I've been running for several months now - doing about 6-7 miles on my "long" day.  Today, for the first time in probably 25 years, I ran in a 5k race.  The whole time before t...

NSV - I weigh less than the weight on my driver's - For years I weighed 40 lbs more than my license - now I just realized I weigh 30 lbs. less! 

6 months! Pictures - Hi Y'all, I'm at the 6 month mark now.  Wow, this has been a very exciting time for me.  I think that for so many years I just had this undercurrent of sadness - feeling unattra...

Just had my first PS consult - So, yes, I know I still need to lose another 30 lbs.  I need a fair amount of face work done, however, and since I'll be out of the office for a week and a half anyhow at Passover,...

OMG!! I just realized I can cross my legs - Comfortably!  Also, dropped into the 180's this morning!  Eye is firmly on the 175 lb mark and being officially overweight and not obese... Does anybody else feel like this is s...