Two Years and Planning Plastic Surgery

Mar 22, 2012

So - It's been two years since I had a Lap RNY and (as you can see in the ticker) I have lost 235lbs! Everyone tells me I look great and I know I look better but I don't see great.  I have the turkey neck and am really, really seriously pear shaped (like 10" bigger in the hips).  The panni is creating problems in the skin fold and making my ankles swell.  My butt and arms wiggle and jiggle ten minutes after the rest of me stops moving. 

SO I have decided to go and have plastic surgery.  I am scheduled for a lower body lift (an LBL for those in the know) and a tummy tuck, a breast lift, and I'm having my bat wings removed.  I am having so many "ectomies" it takes-up an entire line in the letter from the surgeons office.  I am so looking forward to not having to wear black, navy, or dark brown pants, to not have to buy long shirt tails, to always wear sleeves.  I have worked and worked and worked and I don't want to still feel fat.

I am also struggling with numbers.  I had wanted to get to 180 and I struggled to get to 185 but my body just fights like heck when I get below that.  That means my BMI is 29.8 - I am only 0.1 from obese.  I have struggled for 2 long hard grueling years to be on the verge of obese. 

My WLS surgeon tells me I am a poster child for RNY surgery and I can not hope to have done better since I bested his prediction by a bunch.  He tells me to get to the weight and shape I want I need a surgeon to remove the excess skin. SO I went for a consult with a plastic surgeon last November.   He tells me he does this week in and week out and I am an excellent candidate.  I will get the results I see in the pictures in his web site.  The real down side - 6 hours of surgery and   three weeks of time off for recovery, and 4 drains.  Still on May 11, 2012 I will go into the hospital for the third time in just over 2 years and I hope that the end result will be worth the risk, the pain, and the cost.

I deserve this and later this fall I am going to have a face-lift to get rid of the turkey neck.  Nothing extreme but I am only 50 and I look 65 or more.  I have worked really hard and I deserve to feel beautiful. 

Wish me luck!

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