Panni tomorrow morning....
What can I say I am scared. Worried. Happy.
This journey has been long and hard. I have been an emotional roller coaster and it seems that NOONE outside "this world" has no freaking idea. This has been my goal the whole time, to get approved for this procedure.
The ups and downs for the past year WOW! puts things into prospective. I have been runnin around my house cleaning and making sure everything is in "order" for when I get back home. Kids will be at the gma's house right around the corner, have a friend or two coming over to help and the soon to be ex hubby coming to help me too. I have no idea how much they are going to cut off, he said it would be a bigger line than "normal" cuz of the size of the area.
Right now besides what I've mentioned before, I am actually besides myself. If that makes sense..lol
16 months post op
135 lbs lost
1 complication from gastric itself, staple popped through
This journey has been long and hard. I have been an emotional roller coaster and it seems that NOONE outside "this world" has no freaking idea. This has been my goal the whole time, to get approved for this procedure.
The ups and downs for the past year WOW! puts things into prospective. I have been runnin around my house cleaning and making sure everything is in "order" for when I get back home. Kids will be at the gma's house right around the corner, have a friend or two coming over to help and the soon to be ex hubby coming to help me too. I have no idea how much they are going to cut off, he said it would be a bigger line than "normal" cuz of the size of the area.
Right now besides what I've mentioned before, I am actually besides myself. If that makes sense..lol
16 months post op
135 lbs lost
1 complication from gastric itself, staple popped through
good luck to you , i just said to my daughter I get so anxious and scared and think it will be so bad and then it is not as bad as I expected, you will do fine. I do the same thing before surgery I clean eerything prepare everything like I will not be able to do it for weeks cause if I have to sit on the sofa and rest I better not look up to the ceiling and see dust bunnies
Just saw your post so I hope you're recovering well! I had my panni removal in conjunction with a hysterectomy on Feb 8, 2010 and have done surprisingly well. Of course I tire easily but I am only taking 1 pain pill at night now. They removed 12lbs of skin and I no longer have a belly button. My incision extends past each hip and the main issue now is burning along parts of the incision. TAKE IT EASY and Yes, eventually you will walk upright again! I'm already upright :)
TJ
TJ
370/344//150
Highest/DOS/Goal
well surgery went well. they removed 12.8lbs no longer have belly button and my surgeon basicaly said it went like butter...He alotted me 3 hours and he was out in an hour and half because it went so smooth. I was not that great on weds, and he wanted me to stay again and i said no. I would probably do better at home cuz that way i wouldnt get waken up every half hour or just as i went to sleep. He agreed with that. So i came home weds afternoon. He then was giving me a heads up as to when i was going to feel the worse. He was like THURSDAY for sure. I was like ok, be prepared then. Thursday came and went, and TODAY it hit like a ton of bricks..
THe first night i was home my friend was laughing with me cuz i am so use to the "cushion" that i still stood a ways away from the sink to get a drink. Was finally able to take a shower and look at my sutures last night, Friday. Have 90 stitches. TODAY it is burning ilke no other, not hurt but burn. friend of mine told me it should lesson up by monday and if not i need to cal the dr.
I have tried on my last pair of jeans that are a 22. there is at least a good 4 inches between waist and where the pants are puled out. Went somewhere to get out of the house for a bit yesterday and was getting laughed at because one hadn was holding my pants up. I was laughing with them.
I have no idea how much i weigh right now. I didnt bother to weigh myself beofre or after surgery. I can assume im weighing in at my first goal of 215. which im excited about. Considering where i started at 359.
So good luck to the rest of you who are getting this done. I have no regrets just vaildation and tears. One nurse got why I was crying afterwards, cuz she had been through the journey too and she even shed one.
THe first night i was home my friend was laughing with me cuz i am so use to the "cushion" that i still stood a ways away from the sink to get a drink. Was finally able to take a shower and look at my sutures last night, Friday. Have 90 stitches. TODAY it is burning ilke no other, not hurt but burn. friend of mine told me it should lesson up by monday and if not i need to cal the dr.
I have tried on my last pair of jeans that are a 22. there is at least a good 4 inches between waist and where the pants are puled out. Went somewhere to get out of the house for a bit yesterday and was getting laughed at because one hadn was holding my pants up. I was laughing with them.
I have no idea how much i weigh right now. I didnt bother to weigh myself beofre or after surgery. I can assume im weighing in at my first goal of 215. which im excited about. Considering where i started at 359.
So good luck to the rest of you who are getting this done. I have no regrets just vaildation and tears. One nurse got why I was crying afterwards, cuz she had been through the journey too and she even shed one.
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