2.20.24

It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.

Deuteronomy 31:8

My surgery went really well!! Thank you for your continued prayers!! They wouldn’t let the kids sit by themselves in the waiting room because they were all minors, so Aaron couldn’t come back with me while the doctors talked to me. They wouldn’t let them come back with me either (just their policy). And they didn’t want them sitting in the van by themselves on their property. They did bring them all back for a couple minutes to say good bye. That was hard for me, I wanted Aaron with me when the doctors were going to talk to me. I ended up putting Aaron on speaker phone so he could hear what they were saying. I was out before I entered the OR so I have no idea what that looked like. I did get sick after this one, even with the Scopolamine patch. The nurse said everybody gets sick with this procedure. They weren’t sure why. She wondered if it was because they sit you up a lot to check for symmetry. So a lot of up and downs while I was out. haha! We left the clinic shortly after 3pm. I got ‘home’ and crashed on the couch! Woke up around 6pm had a little supper and my meds. (I probably should have taken those right when we got home because when I woke up at 6pm I was feeling a little rough.) I went back to the couch and slept until 9pm. By then the meds had kicked in and I was feeling pretty good. Aaron has been taking good care of me. He has alarms set for all my meds and woke me up to give me my meds through the night. I even slept really well last night too! In fact Aaron woke me up at 9:45 this morning. He asked if I was going to get up today. haha When I asked what time it was, I was surprised to hear 9:45.

I’m not as sore as I thought I would be, but we’ll see what the next couple of days bring. I would have rated my pain this morning at a 3/4 enough to know it’s there but not enough to stop me from doing things. However as I’m writing this post I can feel it in my sides. I feel like I got in a good fight. I would say a 4/5 in pain I know it’s there and it slows me down. My whole body feels bruised. So far not as bad as my first surgery though. I have a pretty gnarly bruise on one of my inner thighs already. I have to wear my compression bra, a binder, and since they took some from my thighs, I need to wear some kind of compression shorts. So lots of layers haha. Sitting down and getting up are the worst. Once I’m up and moving it’s not so bad.

Dr. Nastala said the first week is the most critical. Thats when the fat cells connect with the tissue that’s there. So I’m trying to take it easy. No raising my hands above my head. Don’t lift more than 10lbs. And just don’t over do anything. I am really happy with my results so far! And I’ll be even more happy once all the swelling goes down and I know the final results. I’m hoping I don’t lose too much of the fat cells that were transferred.

We had promised Easton we’d go to a park after my surgery. Figured if I wasn’t feeling up to do anything sitting at a park would be easy enough. So as soon as I woke up and came out he asked “Mom when are we going to a park? You said after your surgery we could go to a park. It’s after your surgery.” haha! We found a pretty cool park about a mile from the house. It even had a splash pad. They were disappointed to find out it wasn’t turned on when we got there. The kids played there about an hour and a half and then went to the air force base. We were going to see the planes after waiting like an hour to go in to talk to them (you have to register and they call you when it’s your turn) We found out that it’s closed on Tuesdays and if we wanted to go in we’d have to come back tomorrow. So we left there and went to get some ice cream.

Before surgery

They had this tool to show my veins. She wanted to make sure there wasn’t a valve where she would be poking.

After surgery

Colt got a little burnt.. he was only out for an hour!

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

Zephaniah 3:17

For those that want to see my gnarly bruise keep scrolling 😉

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