Before and NOW pics--- Add yours! (PICS!)
"Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--
Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U. Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08
Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09 -Dr. Pontell, Media PA Mastopexy/Massive
Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
Total Cost: $33,500 Start wt: 368 RNY wt: 300 Goal wt: 150 Current wt: 148.2 BMI: 24.7
I expected to look every one of my almost-forty years fairly quickly, as I lost the fat out of my face, but the fat is mostly gone and the face is younger. I mean, if you get up close and personal I have a LOT of smile lines around my eyes, but I've always thought that smile lines can be very attractive, and mine are REALLY attractive (vanity!)
I do have a little bit of a turkey wattle going on.... but not much of one. The FACE gods have been kind to me!
~Lady Lithia~ 200 lbs lost!
March 9, 2011 - Coccygectomy!
I chased my dreams, and my dreams, they caught me!
No-- see, I only wear it on my eyes. No foundation, no powder, ever-- so I am thinkin' that didn't cause me to turn into Walter Matthau. I wash up and moisturize-- I just had a lot of extra face, and when it goes, it goes, y'know?
But I am hangy and wrinkly as hell, which is why I don't smile-- it makes it worse.
"Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--
Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U. Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08
Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09 -Dr. Pontell, Media PA Mastopexy/Massive
Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
Total Cost: $33,500 Start wt: 368 RNY wt: 300 Goal wt: 150 Current wt: 148.2 BMI: 24.7
Probably good genes. My "magic-skin" that refuses to be permanently burned. (I did once get so badly sunburned my entire face was one big blister)
~Lady Lithia~ 200 lbs lost!
March 9, 2011 - Coccygectomy!
I chased my dreams, and my dreams, they caught me!
I don't scrub either--- never did. Almost never see daylight. And I have to use moisturizer now-- or the surgeon won't operate. It's nothing I am doing-- it's a loss of volume.
As you can see in my before pics I always had great skin too-- but dehydration and malabsorption are killin' me. Ugh. Here-- here's a classic shot of my dehydrated effed-up self, suitable for framing. I like to call this one, "EVERYONE DRINK YOUR DAMN WATER!"
At about 6 months out, (this was last January) my vitamins weren't getting the job done, and I was chronically dehydrated and felt like **** While I have recovered some since (had IVs the next day), I was looking like this splotchy wrinkly version of Walter Matthau for a while.... GAHHHHH!
"Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--
Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U. Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08
Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09 -Dr. Pontell, Media PA Mastopexy/Massive
Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
Total Cost: $33,500 Start wt: 368 RNY wt: 300 Goal wt: 150 Current wt: 148.2 BMI: 24.7
~Lady Lithia~ 200 lbs lost!
March 9, 2011 - Coccygectomy!
I chased my dreams, and my dreams, they caught me!
I've been better on liquids since the gallbladder. I have a retrocardiac hiatal hernia and it put weird pressure on me when I drank-- somehow ousting the rotting GB gave me some much needed space. I get about 60 oz a day now, and poop better too. Better Living Through Surgical Intervention!
Or maybe, gull-thang, you didn't have a head like a freakin' pieplate to start with! How 'bout THAT? Maybe it's a'cuz I was a human bowling ball-head!
"Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--
Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U. Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08
Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09 -Dr. Pontell, Media PA Mastopexy/Massive
Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
Total Cost: $33,500 Start wt: 368 RNY wt: 300 Goal wt: 150 Current wt: 148.2 BMI: 24.7
