LIPOSUCTION - DAY 1
For the past decade I have watched as deposits of fat have grown around my hips. Despite my commitment to regular exercise and a reasonable diet I have been unable to shake those spreading hips. So I have decided to have liposuction.

I have read all the literature on the procedure and have had all my questions answered. Now its time to commit and get on with it.

I arrive early in the morning. Dr. Groot and his staff are ready for me with big smiles. I relax as I realize that they have done this many times before.

I undress and put on the underwear that I will wear into the OR suite. Dr. Groot comes in and begins to scrutinize my hips. He carefully discusses with me the areas of fat that he his able to target and begins to draw his surgical plan on my skin. Once the plan is complete pictures are taken and I am escorted into the surgical suite. The OR bed is covered with towels and pads. I am helped onto the bed and immediately covered so I don't get cold.

Dr. Carle the anesthetist, inserts a needle into my hand and gives me some pain medication which I am told will take the edge off the insertion of the needles and fluid. He also puts a clothes-pin like clip on my finger and a blood pressure cuff around my arm. These allow him to monitor my vital signs during the procedure.

We all chat comfortably about various topics and I am relatively unaware of what is happening around my hips where Dr. Groot and the nurses are busy working. I feel some pin pricks and a sensation that my thighs are enlarging as they put the tumescent solution in.

In what seems like a rather short amount of time I'm told that the tumescent solution is in place and I can lay back and rest for awhile so that the medications in the solution can take effect. I am comfortably wrapped in blankets, the lights are dimmed and I drift in and out of sleep. There is a nurse with me at all times who is quick to anticipate and/or respond to my needs.

Before long Dr. Groot and Dr. Carle are back. Now the work begins. Dr. Groot begins to remove the fat from my hips. I feel nothing except the pressure and vibrations of the suction cannulas being pushed and pulled under my skin. I would equate it to the same