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So i am delighted to report that I had my plastic surgeries on Monday and am doing very well.  I was booked for 4 hour procedure for a tummy tuck and breast implants and breast lift.  Things went very smoothly, I reported to day surgery at 6:30am Monday morning, and by 8:00am I had been wheeled into the OR, the anesthetic had been administered and i was out like a light!  I came around in recovery at 2pm, and felt some immediate discomfort, to be expected.  On a scale of 1 to 10 i kept telling the nurses around an 8 and they kept giving me morphine. I figured best to get as many pain meds in that day before they kicked me out with just Tylenol 3's for pain relief, which quite frankly really don't do much for me with this kind of pain/soreness.  Anyway, i was supposed to stay at my parents home for a couple of days to be looked after, but I felt very neuseated and as soon as my mom picked me up, got me into the car and started talking I knew i needed to be in my own home, in my own bed with nothing but peace and quiet around me, other than my 2 cats snuggled by my feet purring softly.  And so much to my moms horror I demanded to be taken back to my home where i hauled myself into bed, snuggled under the covers and promptly dozed off.  No doubt my poor parents spent half the night pacing the house as they were very reluctant to let me be on my own immediately after surgery, and i know many of you will think it foolish also, but i promised i would call them or 911 if anything didn't feel right!!  Anyway the next morning I woke up and my god did i feel sore.  I just didn't know what to do with myself, and the only position to sleep and be comfy is on my back,and I am so not a back person, but rather a snuggle on my side, spoon kind of gal!  I walked around the house and tried to keep moving, but by the afternoon i was shuffling little a little old women, and took myself back to bed.  I have been taking pain meds and antibiotics every 4-6 hours, and i also take a sleeping pill each time as well to keep me drowsy, as it helps me fall asleep better.  And i must admit, yesterday when my gf came to visit, she bought me some pot, and i had a few puffs of that and it certainly helped me sleep nicely.

So its Wednesday today, and i woke up at 6:30am, went downstairs and made myself a nice big cup of London Fog tea, even steamed and frothed the milk and have come back to bed to drink it while blogging about the plastics experience.  I am not a person who can just sit/sleep all day, and although i know i must take it easy and rest, i also think it is important to get up and move.  It will also help avoid any nasty blood clots, although my surgeon has me in some very sexy white surgical stockings to help with blood clots.  You'll like the photos i have posted of these, as i have some cute black lace panties on with the stockings, and i feel quiet pervy!  Well I have to make sure i look nice and tucked in with visitors coming and going, LOL.  My breasts are less sore today, and an update for all of you wondering about the procedure, it would appear I never had the breast lift.  My surgeon came in and measured/marked by breasts with black marker with the operation and at that time indicated that if he felt the breast lift wasn't needed once the implants were in would i be ok with that, he said the less he has to cut me the less scaring there will be.  So i agreed. Well i love the new breasts, lets face it anything beats the tiny little saggies i had before, however I can see a little loose saggy skin still on one of the breasts.  I have been told not to worry and that I'm still swollen and everything will move into place, but i have my doubts with that.  However i still love them and when i turn to each side they look perfect to me, so i wont be asking for anything to be tweaked on them!  My tummy i haven't seen yet and it will be another 5 days before i catch a glimpse of that when i have to go back to the hospital for them to remove the 2 drainage tubes and change the dressings etc.  It feels weird in my tummy area, but the bandage, body suite they have me in restricts so much i have no idea what i look like in that area, and until i am healed very well i really don't have much interest in seeing either!  I am a bit squeamish, but have been doing remarkably well draining the JPs.

Hey and another good piece of news, unrelated to the surgery is that I have a boyfriend.  Yes, a real live boyfriend, not just battery operated this time!  I met him a couple of weeks ago, and luckily for me he is currently on business in Maui, so I get to recover without the added pressure of trying to look nice, while feeling like crap, in front of new bf.  I like him allot, and he has sent lovely text messages and has called me after surgery from Maui as well, so lets hope this ones a keeper this time. I have certainly had no problems finding perspective bfs since i have lost the weight, but having them be compatible, kind, caring and thoughtful always seems to be an issue.  Dating is definitely much harder than it was 20+ years ago, and not being on the dating scene since i gained the majority of my weight over the last 15 years has certainly been an eye opener for me.  Its like a minefield we have to navigate, and as the norm seems to be finding true love on line, that is a particularly difficult issue for me as when i date someone i want to be assured that they are not still trolling the dating sites after we have said we will date exclusively, and i have heard some horror stories.  At least the new bf had the courtesy to hide his profile after he met me, by mutual decision, and i too have hidden mine.  And being a true Scorpio who throws herself into every relationship with gusto, i put 150% in at the start and wonder why my partner doesn't do the same.  I am not a clingy person, but i do relish spending lots of time with a new partner, and i can be very intense, which i am sure can scare many guys away.  The good thing is that Bob is a Scorpio as well, and so the physical chemistry is amazing!  Mind you not having had sex for over 9 years until last year, doesn't really say much, as any type of sex after that hiatus would be good!  Anyway, i don't want to get off topic, but thought i would share that everything is falling into place nicely, 160+ lbs of weight gone, plastic surgery complete, and new bf in place, cant get much better than that.  Oh and before i forget, the tummy tuck here in Sask, Canada was covered by Sask Health, and i paid privately for my breasts, just under $6000, but expect to get some money back as the breast lift increases the cost, and as that wasn't performed I'm hoping for a little refund!  I am also on the waiting list to have the excess skin from my arms removed - the batwing procedure, and that too has been approved and will be covered under Sask health.  So all in all, although sore and very impatient to see immediate results (patience is not my virtue) I have to say all is good in my world!  Enjoy the pics.

Yikes, last night was not good.  I am not normally a gal who likes to discuss bodily functions but I will say that before the WLS I was very regular in the BM dept - every day like clockwork.  However since the surgery I am lucky if I go every 4-5 days.  Last night when I got home from work I was in severe pain, I had terrible stomach cramps and had a terrible urge to push, almost as if I was giving birth, but different area!  I realized that no matter how much rocking back and forth on the toilet, how many warm showers, and how much pacing up and down the hall landing I did, nothing was going to help with the severe constipation.  I also worked out that it was at least 10 days since going to the bathroom.  Anyway a couple of suppositories and spoonful of milk of magnesia later still nothing happened, other than my stomach contracting and severe stomach ache.  Needles to say I spent a good 6 hours in the bathroom and by 1am this morning I was exhausted.  Finally I got the relief I was desperately looking for at around 7:30am  and  I have never been so glad to have a BM in all my life!  I weighed myself after said event and I had lost 3lbs!LOL.  Anyway, I have been researching the lovely topic of constipation on the internet and WLS sites and it appears it is very common,  so I am going to work on a recipe to be taken at the beginning of each month to help keep me more regular, i.e prune juice, milk of magnesia and a couple of suppositories!!!  If anyone has some advice on this topic, please let me know.