My battle wounds

Or lack thereof, I should say. A question I always get when someone finds out about my surgery is "how bad are your scars?". As I've said before, the LapBand is done laproscopically through 5 incisions. The longest incision (less than an inch long) is where the port is placed under my abdomen and then there are 4 other 1/8 of an inch incisions around my stomach. One is to the far right, one is the far left, one is right under my left breast and the other is between my breasts. I wouldn't even call those incisions, more like little nicks, they're so tiny! These little scars are my reminders of what I'm doing to change my life and I wear them proudly. A friend of mine had a tummy tuck about a week before my surgery and she was ASTONISHED at my the size of my scars. I think she thought it was going to be more like an open gastic bypass scar and she was looking forward to comparing our scars. She didn't even want to show me hers after seeing mine. I barely even notice mine sometimes because they've faded dramatically and are very smooth.

I have one other major scar which is on my right knee and I got it mountain climbing in Greece. I know, fancy, right? I wear that scar proudly, too. Don't be afraid of the scars - they stand for so much!