Liposuction for Lipedema: The Calf Surgery can be found right here, if you haven’t read it yet! Please remember, you’re welcome to share my post, but please don’t copy it!
February 11, 2016 – 1 day after liposuction for lipedema on the calves
So here’s what it looks like when all of the plasters and compression stockings come off your legs the day after liposuction on your calves. It really doesn’t look too bad, does it?
At this stage, my legs still have some of the tumescent fluid in it, although a good portion leaked out on the ride home, sitting and walking around, and overnight while sleeping. However, there is still a huge difference between now and before the surgery. Even swollen, inflamed, and full of fluid, my calves are so much smaller than they were.
After taking this picture, I was to put on a new pair of thigh high compression stockings. Well, that didn’t happen…
No compression garment applicator, no compression stockings…
In a nut shell, my calves were too big and too painful to put compression stockings on without an applicator. I tried, failed, and made a bloody mess all over the place. Literally.
Remember how I said my calves were still full of tumescent fluid, which was used for the liposuction for lipedema surgery? Well, I was able to roll the compression stockings (with the help of my well meaning husband) less than a quarter of a way up my calf before I was crying in pain. However, that pressure was enough to make my leg spring leaks from all the puncture points. When I say leak, I mean it was pumping out blood tinged tumescent fluid all over the bed, floor, etc.
I said that this was messy, I wasn’t kidding. There was a reason they sent me home with my calves in medical grade, sturdy, garbage bags.
Unfortunately, my husband had already pulled all the bedding and the mattress protector off the bed, so this fluid squirted all over the mattress itself. It’s mostly fluid, but because there’s a little bit of blood, it is tinged red and stains. That mattress will forever look like a murder scene from here on out…
But, the point of this is, there was NOT going to be any compression garments 1 day after liposuction for my calves unless someone came over with an applicator.
A call to the surgeon asking what the heck do we do now?!
While I stood there and literally squirted tumescent fluid all over the floor (I was standing in a puddle of blood tinged fluid at this point and trying to mop up the side boards of my bed…it was kind of comical) my husband called the surgeon so see what I was supposed to do since the compression stockings just weren’t going to happen.
Turns out I could get the home service (thuiszorg) that takes care of old people, people out of surgery, etc to come in and wrap my leg. So we got them in to compression wrap my leg and called it a day.
That’s pretty much day 1, stay tuned for day 3!
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