Sorry about your "owie" sounds like a painful one! but hopefully all that good news from your consult should help take your mind off the pain, and hopefully it will not scar as bad as you think it might! So is this the surgeon you will stick with then? only 5 more pounds!!! how awesome is that?? Keep us posted!! i'm excited for you!
               

AWESOME!  Enjoy every ounce you've shed!!!!
Proud of you!

This is a cross post with the plastic surgery forum.

Yesterday I went for my consult for plastic surgery. The good news is I have a hernia so I don't need to bother fighting about getting panni removal since the hernia makes the same difference in savings for the plastics. While I have a nice panni, I have not had any issues whatsoever and was struggling to get my PCP to help me document problems for BC BS. And now I know why part of my stomach is so tender and really hurts when the cats walk on me sometimes. Even better news is the plastic surgeon only wants me to shed 5 more pounds and definitely not more than 10 pounds before surgery and he will operate after I'm stable for 2 weeks - this is because while shedding the weight I always ate well and have no nutritional deficiencies like someone with WLS typically have. Because I didn't have surgery I never had a period in time where I wasn't eating much food or struggling to get nutrients. I'm going to have to change my weight tracker to reflect this. I will have plenty of breast tissue left so I don't need an implant and he will be able to auto augment my butt.

Bad news, because I used to weight so much and have lost so much, some of my scars are going to be much longer than what I've typically seen on the OH Plastics board. My brachioplasty scars will have to go past my elbow about 1-2 inches into my forearms. I also have a fatty tumor near my elbow to be removed in that area which complicates things a little. He explained that there is so much excess skin on my legs that I will end up with remaining slack above the knee cap but hopefully that will be minor. Luckily for my back, it's minor and he will be able to elongate the scar from my brachioplasty to go down the outer side of my breast to pull that extra skin in.

Ugly news - who knew walking in the mall was so dangerous. I tripped, well DH walked unexpectedly in front of me and my shoe caught on his and I fell and bumped my head. What is really bad is I cut my forehead right near my eye brow - 2 inches, and required 10 stitches. The scar looks neat but I really didn't want an ugly scar on my face. The people in the mall were wonderful and so sweet. OTOH, the people in the local emergency room were very nice but made me hang out there for 2 whole boring hours so it was so late by the time I came home. Tonight I'm attending a fundraiser and will be seeing lots of people I haven't seen in awhile and the last thing I wanted was for them to see this line of purple sutures sticking out of my forehead. I will try to cover as best with my hair but it doesn't completely cover it. I hope they will be focused on my weight loss and don't notice my scar.

Hi Jennifer, I bought mine at Brookstone for $40 just because it was convenient. I checked out Target and Dicks and they had a brand called sportline or something like that and on the internet I found those rated poorly with many complaints. I did find two companies that seemed to be more reliable -Omron and Gaiam but I didn't find them in any local stores. Normally I might order online, but we were eagar to get the pedometer. Mine is a little fancier than what I originally planned to buy in that it stores data for 7 days and gives you both steps, mileage and calories expended (don't trust this because all of this kind of calorie stuff is an estimate and can be very wrong). What I like about mine and is something to consider is that it is very accurate at picking up actual footsteps and not jiggles. I can carry it and have it record in my purse instead of on my body and it doesn't make a ticking noise like the cheaper ones do. OTOH, for my purposes the cheapest would have been fine too.

Can anyone recommend good BP monitors and pedometers, and post places to find them and avg prices please?