An Assessment
Yesterday marked six weeks since surgery. A glorious moment when all bandages can be removed and regular activity resumed. (No, not picture worthy yet.)
Many of you (read: two or three) have remarked that cosmetic surgery will no longer be considered after reading about my recovery. Let me tell you this - getting well after such surgery is a lengthy and arduous process. Forgive me if I complained a bit too loudly. I hated lying around, doing nothing and never got used to the aches and pains resulting from trying to actually get up and *do* something.
Still. Worth it. If I only outlined the negatives, let me change that right now.
Do you exercise daily, weigh less than you should, yet still wanna hurl when getting out of the shower? A tummy tuck/breast reduction might be for you. Worked for me anyway.
Benefits:
- Three words: goodbye granny panties.
- Wearing a bathing suit without causing psychological harm in others.
- Going into Victoria's Secret and buying a bra right off the rack. (This beats having to ask salespeople who stutter, look confused, and then angrily get out the catalog to "place an order for one of those big sizes.")
- Walking around the house in pajamas. Family members no longer close their eyes and look away in an attempt to go to their happy place, muttering "Put on a robe for Christ's sake."
- Wearing a t-shirt and shorts and leaving behind all the previously necessary contraptions that used to keep everything in place.
- Pissing off angry, ugly, fat feminists.
- Being able to purchase undergarments that don't require a small loan to afford.
- Giving away forty-five different underwire bras, gut-be-gones and girdles to Goodwill because you will never, ever need them again.
- Letting him reach for you without worries.
- Showing him what's next with the lights *on*.
I said it about the Brazilian wax and I'll say it about this: Go for it, girls. You won't be sorry.
posted by kate @ 6:02 AM
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2 Comments:
Hope you recover soon and get back to normal routine.
When I read of your surgery, I didn't realize until digging deeper it was a breast reduction, which as a man (and a breast man at that) was not what I wanted to hear. The tummy tuck, sure. But the other? I think the image of the big rack on the thin frame is very sexy. What can I say. :)
OTOH, I had a receptionist at the company I own who possessed really big hooters and had them reduced, and she was only 23. It was really messing up her back so I understand why she did it. Of course I'm a guy, I thought they were perfect the way they were, but afterwards she still looked lovely and was much happier and felt better. OK, so it's not all about me.
My wife is 5'8" and has 38D's. She's mentioned the tummy tuck (she's had 4 kids), I don't press the issue. If she really wants it bad enough she'll bug me about it, after 20 years I know her too well. A tummy tuck for her and she were to lose 15 lbs she'd have the big rack and weigh around 120-125 lbs which I could certainly enjoy that vision, but the vision is just fine with me as it is and I love her with all my heart regardless, so it's neither here nor there.
Ah well, good luck!
- rw (a/k/a Real World, but it takes more time to type out than I care to expend, so it's "rw" from now on)
I don't feel like I can commnent about the political stuff on your blog too often, and even less about the local politics surrounding the issues with teachers. I don't know the situation, but I will say, Yeah for you! about your cosmetic surgery. It sure sounds like it was rough going there for a while, but now it seems like it has been worth it to you. I hope it makes you feel like a million bucks and takes any un-ease you had about yourself away. Now that the mental image you have of yourself matches the physical, I hope you and hubby have a PARTY!
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