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One year ago I had the vertical sleeve and have lost down to 135 pounds. Now I'm ready for a breast left/augmentation, tummy tuck and rear lift. I'm scheduled for the breast portion of the surgery on July 28th. I'm wondering how long I should take off work for that. I only have a week of vacation saved up....
Also, my boyfriend is wanting me to go ahead with all the procedures at the same time....how long would I need to take off for something like that?
My job is sedentary.
Everything I had done, include the dates, is in my siggy.
For the breasts, which was in phase 2, my ps told me I could be back to work in two weeks. However, my job requires air travel and since I had thighs done at the same time, I can only return to work on Monday as long as I don't get on a plane.
I did things in two stages as that's what my ps recommends, in total I took off the day before the first surgery until, well this coming Monday - so about 6 weeks for everything.
I'm not recommending that is what you should do, I know how I recover and I also knew well enough that if either my surgeon or myself thought I wasn't ready, that we'd delay the second surgery.
I'm not going to make it sound like a cake walk (mmmmcakemmmm) it was mostly a smooth recovery process but there were some bumps. I also have a retired DH who is able to be with me 24/7.
Talk to your surgeon, check with work if you have short term disability as a benefit (I did), and talk to your boyfriend to find out if he's willing to help you as much as you will need it.
For the breasts, which was in phase 2, my ps told me I could be back to work in two weeks. However, my job requires air travel and since I had thighs done at the same time, I can only return to work on Monday as long as I don't get on a plane.
I did things in two stages as that's what my ps recommends, in total I took off the day before the first surgery until, well this coming Monday - so about 6 weeks for everything.
I'm not recommending that is what you should do, I know how I recover and I also knew well enough that if either my surgeon or myself thought I wasn't ready, that we'd delay the second surgery.
I'm not going to make it sound like a cake walk (mmmmcakemmmm) it was mostly a smooth recovery process but there were some bumps. I also have a retired DH who is able to be with me 24/7.
Talk to your surgeon, check with work if you have short term disability as a benefit (I did), and talk to your boyfriend to find out if he's willing to help you as much as you will need it.
RNY: 10/11/2001 PS: May 28, 2010: Circumferential body lift with gluteal augmentation and brachioplasty & thoracoplasty June 25, 2010: Bilateral breast augmentation with mastopexy and medial thigh lift
I wanted that too but NO WAY ..My surgeon only does one thing at a time if a big job. I hate that but then he explained that keeping you under longer than 8 is dangerous and makes or could for lots of problems .. I hate hate hate that he works alone as it looks like if there was 2 working on ya they could get it done ..
HO HUM the prive we pay for the AFTER THE LOSS.
To be honest though , the arms for me were so hard ,, so was the TT ...No way could I have endured anything else at the same time , thighs were OMG.. But I will tell you this , each process was only a 10 day recovery as far as being able to go back to work .. Ten full work days I should say plus the weeknd and I made it ok ..
If you smoke that adds extra issues to recovery and even the surgery but especially the healing ..Thank goodness I quit many years ago..
Wishing you the best but sure thing the only one week wont work for you ,,,but then maybe your a lot tougher than me ...:)
HO HUM the prive we pay for the AFTER THE LOSS.
To be honest though , the arms for me were so hard ,, so was the TT ...No way could I have endured anything else at the same time , thighs were OMG.. But I will tell you this , each process was only a 10 day recovery as far as being able to go back to work .. Ten full work days I should say plus the weeknd and I made it ok ..
If you smoke that adds extra issues to recovery and even the surgery but especially the healing ..Thank goodness I quit many years ago..
Wishing you the best but sure thing the only one week wont work for you ,,,but then maybe your a lot tougher than me ...:)
Thank you all for your comments. I've decided to start with the breasts and do the TT at another time. That's a good idea about the short term disability. I'll check on that. And as far as the smoking...I'm on Chantix now so I should be "good to go" by surgery date! One tip I got from a friend who had the TT...she rented a lift chair for after surgery and said it really helped in those first couple of days afterwards.
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