Plastic surgery can be an exciting prospect, particularly for someone who looks like I do. But in reality, it's a humiliating experience.
I thought, after having four children and being in some every un-lady like positions, that no experience could be as void of dignity as childbirth, but I was wrong. Standing in a room with a male surgeon who is there expressly to look at your large, rumpled body, is not only void of dignity it is on the negative side to the tenth power. And to make it even more humiliating, in the room with him is his beautiful, thin, young assistant who must be thinking, "Gross, I will never let my body get like that!" (Glad I could help)
Now for the piece de resistance. I went in thinking I NEEDED a tummy tuck, maybe some lipo. I WANTED a lift and augmentation, though felt I could wait a year or two, but what I ACTUALLY NEED is a body lift. How humiliating is that? My whole body is rippled and rumpled!
Imagine how it felt to stand naked in the middle of a room (with a full length truth mirror no less), with thin good looking people, and watch the surgeon grab my body and lift it into what "could be" then let it go and watch it drop into "what is" only to discover later that I could never in a million years, afford the cost of such a procedure. Which brings me right back to where I started. Rippled and rumpled.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
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2 comments:
Does that mean that you are not getting a tummy tuck? Will he not do that? How much is a body lift?
Sort of sounds like when you go into a store for something and the salesman tries to convince you that what you were looking for is not going to work as well as you thought and what you need is something better and more expensive. Hmmm suspicious. (Can you tell I don't trust people?)
Deanna:
No, he's trustworthy, and he's right, a tummy tuck would have left me with a bottom heavy backside and huge thighs. With the body lift he lipo's out all the fat in the thighs and butt, love handle area, and reconstructs the stomach muscles. All the belly fat comes off and the skin is pulled down from the top and up from the bottom, smoothing out the rumples in the legs and but. It's a great process but not one I can afford this year. Maybe next year. Or, if I can lose the weight I want to lose I can just get the tummy tuck to remove all the stretched out skin and tighten the stomach muscles. Then I can also get the augmentation and lift as well. The body lift is $16K The mommy makeover which is the breast and tummy tuck, is $12K
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