Straightening out

Okay so I am pretty much dying to stand straight at this point. I know that others can be totally straight by now, and I've had my complications, but dang it I'm tired of it! Hubby says I'm straighter than I have been, but I'm seriously so tired of having the upper back hunched (even if it's slightly) and I want, very very badly, to be able to stand with my normal lower back curvature, but I'm nowhere near being able to do that yet.

So I've been attempting to straighten out/stretch when laying down. I'm not sure how else to really try it without hurting something or making myself sore. I lay down with one pillow & straighten out my legs (thanks Kelly for the idea). At first I wasn't so sure what I felt was trying to stretch, but I know it's definitely not just the skin. I guess it has to be the muscle repair along the top. They stitch the fascia (that is over the muscles) and pull that together, so what I am feeling, I guess, is that pulling when I try to stretch. In that picture (totally not me LOL) the circled area is where I can feel the tugging & when I lie down and am trying to stretch it's like a raised area in the center line of the upper abs. So I guess that must be the muscle repair? I guess I need to ask Doc about that Monday.