I looked up circumferential body lift on the Internet. The photos are amazing. It is clear why this would be very painful following the surgery. You don't appear to have the scarring that many of the folks in the photos did. Do you know why this is? Did you have to wear a compression garment following the surgery to help with the healing?
There is a young man who works out at the gym who must have been very large at one time. He has scars from a chest lift. Obviously, you didn't carry as much fat in your chest area as your stomach.
The surgery itself was outpatient, done in their office. After going through it, I'm still baffled as to how they can get away with sending you home after such an invasive surgery. In the end, I had over 2,000 stitches. I was sent home with 2 drain tubes that had to be dumped 2x day for over 2 weeks. The doctor admitted he should've sent me home with 3, maybe 4, because of all of the swelling and fluid I retained early on.
I was physically immobile and couldn't move without heavy assistance (thank God I have an understand, smoking hot wife). I actually popped a stitch trying to get up on my own and bled everywhere, for over an hour. My house looked like a murder scene...I had to be driven back to the office and get it taken care of. For several months my nerve endings would 'wake back up' and fire off, causing intense stabbing pain at random times, which was a big bowl of fun to deal with.
My scar is very, very low, to the point where when I wear a banana hammock on stage, you can't even see it. I also scar very well apparently, because it's a hairline and isn't directly noticeable anyway.
I had to wear a compression garment for several weeks, followed my compression shorts (under armor bike shorts) for another several weeks. The compression garment didn't come off for the first 2 weeks, so I never even saw the outcome until much later.
The following pics are from surgery, and the others show that even at an early age, I've wanted to be a bodybuilder...and the strange thing is, I never watched bodybuilding, I never saw a bodybuilder in real life until I met Jay Cutler when I was about 19 (9 years ago). It was always something in me that just wanted to be hyuuuuge, and one day I hope to accomplish that last goal!
