my PS is done -- good and bad
My panniculectomy is done (I'm still staying at my mom's so she can help with my puppy, mostly... and because I'm still walking like a 90-year old!)
He did a really good job with the panni removal. Even with the incision being fresh (and still covered with some blood and about a 100 steri-strips), it looks good. No weird puckering like some I have seen and no evidence of "dog ears" at the end of the incision. (My incision looks like a giant smile, very low at the center and, unlike some, goes all the way to the outer sides of my hip bones... just past where the seams of pants would be.)
Unfortunately, when he looked at the results of my venogram he decided that he just could NOT do the mons lift since SO much of the blood flow across my pelvis around the area of a previous clot would have to be cut off. So that area still hangs just as much as it did before. Pretty depressed about that. .. apparently I am going to be stuck wearing nothing but skirts and tunic-length shirts/sweaters over pants even one I lose all the weight.
Two of the three nurses I had while in the hospital told me that they were really impressed with this surgeon's work... one is even having him do some work on her daughter or niece or something (don;t remember because of the drugs!) because the scar will be someplace it shows and she has been so impressed with his incisions.
Ok, back to the recliner and some more vicodin for me,,,
Lora
He did a really good job with the panni removal. Even with the incision being fresh (and still covered with some blood and about a 100 steri-strips), it looks good. No weird puckering like some I have seen and no evidence of "dog ears" at the end of the incision. (My incision looks like a giant smile, very low at the center and, unlike some, goes all the way to the outer sides of my hip bones... just past where the seams of pants would be.)
Unfortunately, when he looked at the results of my venogram he decided that he just could NOT do the mons lift since SO much of the blood flow across my pelvis around the area of a previous clot would have to be cut off. So that area still hangs just as much as it did before. Pretty depressed about that. .. apparently I am going to be stuck wearing nothing but skirts and tunic-length shirts/sweaters over pants even one I lose all the weight.
Two of the three nurses I had while in the hospital told me that they were really impressed with this surgeon's work... one is even having him do some work on her daughter or niece or something (don;t remember because of the drugs!) because the scar will be someplace it shows and she has been so impressed with his incisions.
Ok, back to the recliner and some more vicodin for me,,,
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
WELCOME HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glad things things went almost perfect. Better safe than sorry that says something about the doc. Keep your protein up.
Robin
4'10" - 47 I'm short but not petite and I will weigh more than a 5th grader
Start weight 220
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind" Dr. Seuss
Hi, Darlin'!
Glad to hear you are home and on the good drugs! So sorry that the mons lift couldn't be completed for you ... I know you were really hoping it could be. (((HUGS)))
On the bring side, sounds like your panni removal went beautifully!
And as someone else said ... it says a lot about your surgeon that he wouldn't do anything to endanger you. Still, I know it sucks for you. ((((HUGS))))
Glad to hear you are home and on the good drugs! So sorry that the mons lift couldn't be completed for you ... I know you were really hoping it could be. (((HUGS)))
On the bring side, sounds like your panni removal went beautifully!
And as someone else said ... it says a lot about your surgeon that he wouldn't do anything to endanger you. Still, I know it sucks for you. ((((HUGS))))
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