have any of you woke up after surgery with NO BELLY BUTTON

Maybe my eight year old nephew was confusing me with you. He came to stay with me about a week after surgery and went home telling all his friends that his uncle no longer had a belly button. When I was visiting them this weekend, I had to prove up my belly button cred. He said, "Oh well. I thought I heard something about your belly button."

thats so cute!!  Stomach smaller maybe he thought after the surgery  the size of the belly became smaller- and in my case it did HA!

Just get those jewel stickers and place one where your belly button is suppose to be and tell everyone that you were pierced......
I have an incision in my belly button and it keeps getting infected, not bad enough for antibiotics but I have been using TAO and spongebob bandaids..

Before surgery my belly button was down to my thighs because of my big fat stomach.  I had complications following WLS and had to have surgery again just weeks after.  My incision was from my private area to my breast bone and about 4 inches wide.  I had a wound vac for 8 months because they wanted it to heal from the inside out.  Anyway, I lost the sagging belly button.  A few months ago I had the hernia repaired ( from the other surgery) and still no belly button.  I really don't miss it.  I read somewhere the Eve didn't have one either so it was okay.  I might consider a tatoo or a black sharpie.

awww I had a wound vac with colon resection surgery- that was very interesting and I was a lil weirded out to have this surgery after going thru that --- then when I woke up and found I had open well you understand all the memories were there from last time.   How does your look now??

My stomach had a three inch wide, purple scar until I had the other surgery.  I am still healing.  At the conjunction of the anchor incision I have a place that has not completely healed.  About an inch up a stitch came up and so I have another spot healing.  I am very happy with the surgery and after the 8 months of open wound, broken hip, anemia(still) this is only a minor set back that I can handle with a smile.  I hated carrying that noisy machine with me everywhere I went.  Hope I never have to have one again.  Some people don't know what they are missing!!!!!!

YOU ARE SO right- THE JOY OF MY DAY used to be getting in one of those ride on things at the Walmart - that way I had a place to put the Vacuum- but hoping everything is on the way to permanant healing for you- and hoping you ae enjoy being on the losers bench- so far only 30 lbs for me- but I am thrilled each lil pound that is coming off!!!  Hugs, Terry