29 months, meeting my new/old plastic surgeon
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, 06-17-2018 at 04:29 AM (1453 Views)
I had reconstructive surgery in my 20's.
I thought my surgeon had retired but he actually went back to work this year after a yatus so I made an appointment to meet him and saw him on Wednesday.
The very famous professor I saw in Paris in September was nice...but I think I like my old doc better..
It was a really interesting consult, and we decided on a date, and will take it from there...as my doc said : "you need the surgery, don't over think it, we will deal with issues when they come"...he knows it will be challenging...
So my first surgery is planned for July 19 but we will know for sure around 10 days before (depending on my blood test results) if it can happen.
We are starting with arm lift and major tumor removal (for those who don't know about my complicated health, to make it short my obesity is "genetic" and one of the aspect is a collection of fatty tumors all over my body. Most are hidden one is visible on my shoulder if I'm wearing a bathing suit. No biggie except it can be painful, and I can't keep those too long it can turn into cancer after more than 10/15 years, One I had removed a while ago had "bad cells" called pr-cancerous).
Anyway!! my doc was not really happy about the major water retention I'm currently having, I also told him about the gain (with the medication) so ....the plan is to go on some diet change to help prepare the surgery, going "moderate low carb" will help with water retention.
I sent all the paper work and should know the first week of July if the surgery is approved by the national insurance. My premium will let me know how much is from my pocket. My surgeon gave me a "discount" and even if the surgery is approved, because I'm going private I have to pay a little extra.
But since my surgeon is going to get me a lipo on my lower leg (with the tumor removal) I don't mind paying the extra!
I'm hoping I can lower my body weight and that bad water retention, but we have so many functions at work it's going to be really complicated to get a good result in such a short time!!
I'm such a slow looser (and fast gainer indeed!). We will see what happen!!