Yes...I'm still dealing with mixed emotions here, but the overall feelings are excited and anxious to be done already.
Yes, my surgery date is exactly one week from now, April 7th. I was less nervous than this when I got married. GRRRRRRRRRRR! The day I made the call I sat here next to the phone for hours before I got up the courage to do it. Then, it's done, I've made it over that hump, I go in with hubby for my pre-op consult a few days later which is to be an hour...winds up being 2 1/2 hrs...my husband (he loves me dearly and wants only the best) would not let me have the surgery performed at the doctors surgery center...he INSISTED on the hospital. So...I'm on the verge of tears in frustration not wanting to switch dates and everything else in my life that goes along with it when the nurse comes back and says she was able to keep the date and time all the same. I guess someone up there really does like me. There were tons of papers to read and sign and we actually read every one of them, which took about 45 minutes alone...I guess most people just scan them and sign them. We talked to the doctore about all kinds of things...even the size of my areola....who'd have thought, ya know?
Then there was the smoking issue which I wasn't aware of. Um...yeah...I'm a smoker.....WAS a smoker that is...I quit as of Friday morning. Apparently due to all of the cutting and suturing involved with the lift procedure, if I continued to smoke it would increase the risks of bleeding, ugly scaring, slow healing and infection. Non of which I wanted to take chances with, so I quit cold turkey. Quitting smoking is the absolute hardest thing I've had to do in my life. I worked with hubby yesterday and I was in tears...he related it to being like a heroine addict...it is that hard for me. So....since I've been fighting the smoking issue, I've been less nervous about the surgery!
I still have to to for a pre-op meeting at the hospital, but aside from that, I'm all set. At the last doctor's visit I decided to go a little smaller than I originally thought I would want. So, it's 400cc's, high profile, round smooth, under the muscle, then the doctor will perform the lift after the implants are in. It's a 4 hr. surgery then about 2 hrs. to come out of anestesia. Last night I worked out chest for the last time before my surgery...I don't want to take any chances of it being sore from lifting cuz it's gonna be bad enough from surgery!
The link below shows me in a shelf bra tank top with different boobie pics...I want to be somewhere inbetween the last two sets of pictures when I'm done with the surgery.
http://www.elitefitness.com/members/mrspuddlesfl/BreastsBeforeAugmentation.jpg
Then next year I'll get the tummy tuck done. I gotta laugh at that a bit. A few weeks ago EF Sam had prodded me to put up some other pics besides my butt pics, he specifically asked for ab pics and I explained to him about the belly probs. But I figured I would still work with what I have, so I finally put up some progress pics in the members pictures area. The first set of pictures I took on Friday, then I have some fat pics, then some pics from a couple of months ago.
http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=223863
I laughed when someone referred to my belly as a pooch...don't know why, but it just made me laugh! I did my bodyfat yesterday with callipers again...16.5% and my weight is 146. Just for the hell of it, I lowered the three calliper measurements in half that the tummy tuck will affect and my bf% goes down to 12.25%...that gives me a lot to look forward to next year! I can't wait to loose this pooch!!!
Thanks for reading this ramble. Now with me not smoking my hands are needing to keep bussier than ever!