4 week visit and 2nd day back to work

I saw my surgeon for my almost 4 week check up.  He said the incisions look good.  He clipped the stitch that was hanging out of my hip.  He said this was normal and I can clip them or come in if I wanted him to.  My belly button is still healing.  He picked off part of my scab.  I'm not sure my belly button will be normal looking.  I was hoping to get it pierced eventually.  This is my fourth belly button from all my surgeries.  Each tiime it looks different.  I didn't care much what it looked like before because I was fat.  We'll see how it turns out.
Doc said my implants could last up to 20 years but they have a 10 year warranty.  I teased him they were like a car.  I asked him about the risk of the implant deflating from mammograms.  He said it is rare.  He said it is more likely if the implant is older.  He said sometimes a patient will notice one looks smaller and there is a small leak caused by the mammo seperating scar tissue.  He said he would then have to repair it.  I get my mammos early due to a history of breast cancer in my family.  I really can't imagine my new girls getting squashed.  He said I can't lift weights for another 3 weeks or run for another 4 weeks. Bad news for the 5K I was going to run in 4 weeks.  I guess I'll walk it.  Not sure I'll be ready to run my 1/2 marathon then in 8 weeks.
Darn.  I'll have to walk that too.
Also I have a lot of swelling today  My doctor noticed it too.  I'm wearing my compression garment 20 hrs a day.  Usually about 3am I rip it off because it hurts me. 

So happy for you Jodi!
I saw my dr. for my Post op LBL. They pulled out some of my stitches today too. Amazing how much they pulled out, some real looooong ones!!!!!!!

I was planning on doing the disney Half in January, I did it this past year. But, will be having BL & Arms done in Dec., so I'll be there to cheer my hubby on, and all my friends who at the last minute decided to train for it! FRUSTRATING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There's always next year!

Carmen

How great!
I have decided to allow myself to walk 5Ks this fall as running is out of the question!
I had set my sights on the Disney half in Jan, but I am having a buttt and thigh lift the middle of Dec.!  I figure I can start running / jogging slowly in Oct. (I haven't worked out since the middle of June. I have had 3 surgeries since then so I have spent a lot of time "recovering")

Here's to awesome times ahead!

I dream of the day I am running with out all the extra skin. I have done 3 half marathons and have had what I call the  "BEAST" tucked in spanx.

So I get this!!!