Not 30 but 26 instead

Clirishu
on 12/13/09 12:04 pm - LA
 Dr. John Lindsey in Metarie
Leah H.
on 12/13/09 12:20 pm - TX
CONGRATS!!!!


Extended Tummy Tuck & Breast Lift W/Dr. Sauceda 12/30/2009

ermath
on 12/13/09 12:31 pm - Hammond, LA
I have had a similar weight loss and am a patient of Dr. Lavin.  Would you mind posting which other plastic surgeons with whom you consulted and why you chose the doctor that you did?  I am starting my search, and I am looking for someone who has extensive experience with our level of excessive skin.  Thanks so much!
Age: 30, Height: 5'9", Weight: 437/185/170, Sur: RNY Nov05

Clirishu
on 12/13/09 11:35 pm - LA
 I only went to Dr. Lindsey.  Dr. Lavin gave me a list of surgeons and he was on it.  One of the support group members went to him and loved the results.  Initially I intended to go to two others for consult, but I like Lindsey so much that I went with him and did not make appointments with the other two.
ermath
on 12/14/09 11:07 pm - Hammond, LA
Okie-doke.  I will put him on my list.  Thanks again!
Age: 30, Height: 5'9", Weight: 437/185/170, Sur: RNY Nov05

wendy_fou
on 12/13/09 5:44 pm - AR
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Jaime Breckenridge
on 12/13/09 7:40 pm - IL
I cannot wait to see your photo's.  I posted some of mine, I should take some more of the healing scar.  It is doing very well.

Up until this time I really didn't have a WOW moment.  I mean I had moments where I realized I fit into a booth, small chair with arms or something like that but not one of those, HOLY CRAP I can (???) moments.  I used to sit down and would literally lift my gut and move it to where it was comfortable.  Especially when I went to the restroom or was sitting where I was in a more erect position, like your would sit in the restroom, a hard backed chair, the doctor's office, etc...

So I sat down and would reach down to reposition my gut and my hands would hit my compression garment... what the heck? It was no big deal and I didn't think much of it, maybe because it was the first week and I was still healing.  When the drains came out about two weeks later and the wounds healed where the drains were (only took a couple days) I took my first post-op shower.  That was when I noticed for real. 

I was sitting there naked on the toilet waiting for the shower to get hot, it was the first time I didn't have the binder on except when changing bandages.  As I always did, I reached down to reposition my gut and my hands touched the wound and staples.  That is when I really went, 'WOW' I am getting thin.

I also never thought I would have to worry about my gut hanging out from the underside of my shirts.  Whoo Hoo it doesn't and I know you will or do feel the same way.  I still haven't noticed a big change in my back but all I do it sit in the recliner.  Well I am walking a lot but not like I was, up and down trails in the woods and such.

GOOD LUCK on the healing and I can't wait to see pictures.

-Jaime

               
Don 1962
on 12/13/09 10:38 pm
Can't wait to see the afters!

Never, and I mean NEVER, trust a fart!! 


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