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On Mother‘s Day four years ago, my whole life changed. It was the day that I joyfully found out that I was going to become a mom for the first time, but it was also, sadly, the last time I would spend Mother’s Day with my own Mom.

I feel as if I am reporting from a foreign land. Having never expected my life experiences to include plastic surgery, it is as if I have found myself visiting some strange country I never imagined on my list of travels – Timbuktu, say, or one of those bizarre Eastern European autocracies. Kyrgyzstan perhaps.

The final days and weeks leading up to the surgery were stressful as I fretted about what might happen and what could happen to cause extra problems. One of my children had a cold and I worried that I might catch it.

It's brutal, selfish, dangerous, invasive, unnecessary, superficial, and morally questionable and yet, and yet, I will go through with it next month. I've scheduled a tummy tuck.