Belloobie Randomness

Last week I totally cracked myself up.  (I always laugh at my own jokes because I'm my own best audience!). I was getting dressed in the morning after the kids had left and was applying lotion to my incisions.  Because I had a "DIEP flap" reconstruction, my muffin top was the "donor site". My resulting belly scar runs from hip to hip and dips down a bit in the center. I also have a scar all around my belly button.   As I was studying this new version of myself I had an "aha" moment.  I ran out of the bathroom to get my cell phone and to look for some googly eyes.  Yes- googly eyes.  But, alas, I had no googly eyes in the house.  (Not as well stocked as I used to be...) I ran back up to the bathroom. A makeup pencil would have to suffice. Looking at myself, I had realized that my belly button looked like a nose and my long scar looked like a smile.  All I needed to do was draw a couple of eyes and I resembled a jack-o-lantern! I was hysterical and had to take pictures.  It feels too TMI to post but let me assure you- it's funny lookin'! I think I showed everyone I ran into that day! Sorry if you were a victim of Wednesday's TMI!

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I don't know how anyone could survive health stuff before the Internet.  Anytime something weird happened, I could go online and find someone else that had felt or experienced the same thing.  I noticed that lots of women call their new girls their "foobs". Fake + Boobs = Foobs.  But as far as I know, they are talking about implants.  My fake boobs were made from me so I decided I needed to coin a new word.   I think "belloobie" is the winner.  Belly + boobies = Belloobies!  Used in a sentence, "I have an itch on my belloobies but I can't feel myself scratching it so I can't get relief!"

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A wishful conversation I had with my husband after my surgery:

Me: Hey, J?  Do you think that if they take all the fat off of my belly you'll be able to see my abdominal muscles thought the skin?  Like- could I have a six pack or boxes or whatever you call it?!

J: Um, no. You have no abdominal muscles.

Me:  I know that they aren't developed but aren't they sort of naturally in that shape anyway?  Don't people exercise their abs to burn of the fat and make the muscle bigger so it can translate through? If he just takes enough fat, wouldn't the impression of the muscles have to show through?  

J: No

Me: [sigh] Man, it sort of made sense to me...