I had a busy Saturday. Most of my morning was spent at the hospital to meet my bariatric surgeon and the team. My post-op is three weeks early because I will be overseas on the due date, and since I will be traveling most of October, the surgeon wanted to see me before I left. Besides the crazy sugar craving I had last week, my weight loss is much slower the past two months but my doc was happy with my results and said I'm doing better than many of his younger patients, I'm in the higher percentage of weight loss (really???) so it's pretty good from his point of view. Blood test is ok too...
After a quick (bad) lunch, I met with the plastic surgeon. Something got lost in translation because he actually left the team recently so he is doing his surgeries outside the hospital, and for me it's a big no no. No ICU= no surgery. But since I was at the practice, we had the consult any way, and because I was not well informed, I actually didn't pay for the consult, which was really nice of him. Free is always nice...
I did explain that my "emergency" is the abdominoplasty because I'm dealing with muscle pain for several months now and it's getting worth each time I exercise. I'm afraid I could develop a hernia or worth issues like some of my relatives who had multiple surgeries and implants of metal "mesh" to close their hernias....it's that bad...
He did confirm that my muscles are really weak and that surgery is the priority. I told him about thinking about January to do it, I would be at one year post op, he said that it was a little early and it would be better to reach goal first but after looking at my belly he said that I did lose a lot in that area and that actually it would be ok to even do it right now.
I was really surprised! The surgeon did know I would not do the surgery with him so his opinion was interesting.
I did ask about arm lift and tumor removal as well since I was there, but that would take place much later, and no emergency here. Actually from what he said for the arm lift it's better to wait until year two. I could do the tumor removal now.
But about the tummy tuck, because I have lot's of adhesion (3 C sections) plus a severe endometriosis, the surgery will be long and complicated and will require at least two to three months of rest. So January 2017 is my only window... or I will have to wait January 2018 and that would be too risky..

I will meet with one or two other plastic surgeons in November when I'm back..