Re: Belly button question
From: Jennifer (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri Jan 9 17:40:03 2004
My belly button looks like...well, if you took a normal one, and then
pulled on it to elongate it, then left it that way, with a scar that
extends about 1 inch lower than the belly button itself...it's SO
pretty...LOL LOL I guess it doesn't even matter, since I never feel up
to leaving the house, so I certainly won't be wearing a bikini to go
swimming.
--
Jennifer
Ohio
At Fri, 9 Jan 2004, holly wrote:
>
>during my first lap, doc couldn't get the needle thing through my belly
>button, so he resorted to open lap. and when he did that, my skin tore,
>so i ended up with a J for a belly button. i b****ed at him for 7
>months, and when i had the second lap, he showed me at the pre-op how he
>was going to fix the belly button (all this time had passed, and he
>still hadn't told me why my belly button looked the way it did. i
>didn't know until i read my surgery reports what happened). he drew all
>over it and said he was going to excise the scar and pull the skin over
>to the middle. he did it. it looks like a T now. not great, but at
>least it's a straight line. i had a lump under my skin for a while (to
>the left of the belly button), but now it's shrunk down to what feels
>like a grain of rice under the skin.
>
>btw, i apologized to him last week for griping about the scar for so
>long. i told him i finally read the surgery reports, and i feel
>horrible about harassing him. lol.
>
>my belly button still stings like crazy some days. but what can you do?
>i'm going to get it pierced soon because i want to cover the scar. its
>a little long, if you ask me.
>
>At Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Sherri wrote:
>>
>>WHOA! I thought I was the only one with a goofy belly button. I just
>>had my 6th Lap and they pretty much sewed me shut. I have a teeny tiny
>>belly button now and it pulls over to the side and is all crooked...
>>Let's invent stickers with 'normal' looking belly buttons printed on
>>them for women like us to stick over our mis-shapen ones.. we could
>>make millions!
>>
>>~Sherri
>>
>>At Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Jennifer wrote:
>>>
>>>The ob/gyn who did the surgery wanted to send me to a plastic surgeon to
>>>fix his "mess" but I said "No thanks!"...Having that infection was SO
>>>scary. I didn't even know exactly HOW serious it was until after it had
>>>finally gone. He never really acted like it was a severe thing, but
>>>once it was gone he told me about the plastic surgeon and about the
>>>severity of the infection. He even paid my hospital bills! Too bad he
>>>was a complete mess-I had to find another doctor. His wife left him and
>>>his practice went down the drain. :-(
>>>This was two years ago and it's still very hard and I get these little
>>>infections in it now. I have a tube of antibiotics I have to use 3 or 4
>>>times a year. That's why I really would rather never have anyone touch
>>>it again!! LOL
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