RE: Tummy tuck>Greg

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Go for it Greg. It was the best decision I ever made. I am cut from hip to hip with my abdominoplasty. I have a reconstructed belly button, and although while healing it doesnt look like yours, you soon forget what you used to look like!

This is your reward for all your hard work.

....Ali

To: SydBand From: xrvgreg@...Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:34:55 +1100Subject: Tummy tuck

well, went to the plastic man yesterday, interesting. He thinks Im a good candidate and should end up with a reasonably flat tummy. He was surprised that seeing how much Ive lost & hiow much loose tummy skin I have that my back/bum/chest are actually OK ( Im surprised too) and I dont need a ring bark(body lift). He suggested a radical adominoplasty as I have a mild seperation of my tummy muscles which would be fixed with that but said I wouldnt need a vertical cut (fleur De lis) which I thought I might need.

Might be a problem with my belly button though, as it doesnt seem to be anchored to the underlying tissue anymore which means it could be a problem. They usually cut around the button , leaveing it anchored to the underlying tissue and pull the skin around it and stich it back in position. With my BB being unanchored thats not an option and he said its very hard to make a new BB so I might end up without one :twisted: . No probs apart from asthetics, look like I wasnt born but made in a test tube haha... :-)

My inner thighs are pretty loose but he wasnt keen on doing them as he reckons its a problematic procedure and often doesnt give good results, dont know if I'll worry about them, the tummy gets in the way of stuff as well as being an asthetic issue but the thighs are really just for asthetics, they dont bother me apart from that.

Looks like I'd be $8000 - $10,000 out of pocket , got to check with my PHI provider to be sure. Now just got to decide if I really want to do it.

Greg