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Dr D’s Wife’s Tummy Tuck – Video #8 – 1 Year After Surgery
Posted by admin in Dr D's Patients, Dr D's Truth, tummy tuck pre-op tutorial on August 6, 2012
One year after Kim’s Tummy Tuck she recounts the pain, scarring and weight gain issues. We also include a nice collage of her “Before” and 1 year “After” videos together for those who might want to compare.
Overall she is quite happy which is of course good for Dr D:
“Happy Wife: Happy Life.”
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
Avoiding Swell Hell In Tummy Tuck Surgery
Posted by admin in Dr D's Truth, tummy tuck pre-op tutorial on December 2, 2011
Some of you may know I do breast and body surgery and that includes tummy tucks. Tummy tuck surgery is involved. It is one of the larger scale operations a plastic surgeon can offer a patient. I did my wife Kim’s tummy tuck not long ago.
Kim posted to a forum at which I occasionally post and also did some YouTube video posts after her surgery to share her experience. This was her idea. I did not push her into making her private affair public. 
She is looking pretty good too at 3 months.
Amongst her comments at this forum was the fact that she experienced little swelling relative to that of other patients who post there. Swell hell is the term patients have given to the swelling problem that some patients have after tummy tuck surgery. This varies between patients and surgeons.
A poster at the forum asked Kim to have me elaborate as to how I avoid swelling in my patients. They swell, but not for months at a time usually. This has to do with my process in choosing patients, actually doing the surgery and caring for my patients afterward. It is not something that a person can dictate to her surgeon for her surgery. It is not one thing that produces my surgical results.
I take my tummy tuck surgery seriously. I screen my patients carefully and I see them a lot after the surgery to modify garment wear, drain and pain pump maintenance and removal. My patients are carefully chosen, operated and maintained after surgery. I believe that leads to better results an this includes less swelling afterward.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
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Good Plastic Surgery in The OC – Great Wifey Tummy Tuck
Posted by admin in "Good Plastic Surgery in the OC", Dr D's Patients, Dr D's Truth, tummy tuck pre-op tutorial on November 29, 2011
My wife Kim had an extended tummy tuck on 080911. I performed this for her. After some discussion. she decided to be more public than I could have expected about it. Some of you have already seen her YouTube video posts. Here is an image of her “Before” and 3 1/2 month “After” images. She had a little liposuction of only her lateral thighs as I am not a believer in tummy lipo at the time of a tummy tuck.
The midline abdominal scar is that of her original gastric bypass (open approach) of 15 years ago.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
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Dr D’s Wife’s Tummy Tuck – Video #7 – 4 Weeks After Surgery
Posted by admin in Dr D's Patients, Dr D's Truth, tummy tuck pre-op tutorial on September 26, 2011
A day short of 4 weeks after Kim’s tummy tuck, she is pretty much at her baseline activity. She is taking only the occasional prescription pain medication leaning on Aleve for what she describes as minor soreness. She has seen little “Swell Hell” although admits that toward the end of the day she has mild swelling, but nothing incapacitating. Significant swelling after tummy tuck surgery is not unavoidable. Part of it has to do with technique.
On the other hand, expecting to be pain free after a large scale tummy tuck at a month is not reasonable. Patients generally have low intensity “aches and pains” as they ramp up their activity and for the most part over-the-counter medication suffices.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
Dr D’s Wife’s Tummy Tuck – Video #6 – 12 Days After Surgery
Posted by admin in Dr D's Patients, Dr D's Truth, tummy tuck pre-op tutorial on September 19, 2011
Twelve days after Kim’s tummy tuck, she is getting around much better. She notes that she gets tired at the end of the day, but it is manageable. She is only taking a few pain pills a day. Her last drain was removed just after this video was recorded. Things are pretty good.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
Dr D’s Wife’s Tummy Tuck – Video #5 – 1 Week After Surgery
Posted by admin in Dr D's Patients, Dr D's Truth, tummy tuck pre-op tutorial on September 12, 2011
One week after Kim’s tummy tuck, she is gaining a little independence. She can go out for short trips to get her coffee and care for herself a bit more. She left the house on post-op day 5. Pain without the pain pump is not so bad. Moving along. She really wants a good shower, but is a bit apprehensive still having one drain in place.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
Dr D’s Wife’s Tummy Tuck – Video #4 – 4 Days After Surgery
Posted by admin in Dr D's Patients, Dr D's Truth, tummy tuck pre-op tutorial on September 5, 2011
4 days out from her Tummy Tuck, Kim continues to do well. She talks about her pain control, slowly increasing mobility and state of living in the days following surgery. She made it down the stairs which seemed like a long journey, but hasn’t yet left the house. A shower would be nice.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
Dr D’s Wife’s Tummy Tuck – Video #3 – 2 Days After Surgery
Posted by admin in Dr D's Patients, Dr D's Truth, tummy tuck pre-op tutorial on August 29, 2011
2 days out from her Tummy Tuck, Kim is doing well. She talks about her pain control, drains and state of living in the days following surgery. She is getting ready to maybe leave the bedroom for a trip to the kitchen, but not anywhere near ready to leave the house yet. We demonstrate how she empties her drain bulbs to remove the fluids that would otherwise accumulate in the wound and potentially ruin the outcome.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
Dr D’s Wife’s Tummy Tuck – Video #2 – 5 Hours After Surgery
Posted by admin in Dr D's Patients, Dr D's Truth, tummy tuck pre-op tutorial on August 22, 2011
Five hours after her tummy tuck, Kim’s condition is a credit to modern pain pump design and placement. She is awake and taking relatively little pain medication at home 5 hours after a large scale tummy tuck with a muscle repair. Before pain pump development, she would have been much more uncomfortable in a hospital bed during this same post-operative period taking intravenous narcotics. She updates you on her medications, pain and drains.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
Dr D’s Wife’s Tummy Tuck – Video #1 – Night Before Surgery
Posted by admin in Dr D's Patients, Dr D's Truth, tummy tuck pre-op tutorial on August 15, 2011
The night before I did my wife Kim’s Tummy Tuck we made this little video of her last minute preparation and frame of mind. It covers garments and clothing briefly.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
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