user: Recovery from liposuction can take several weeks depending on the amount of belly fat removed during the surgery. Recovery from a tummy tuck can take one to two weeks of bed rest and then several weeks of no exercise. You may find it difficult to get in and out of a chair or your bed for the first week of recovery.  Your abdominal muscles will feel sore and you may have bruising around the incisions. There will also be swelling around the area. You may notice the skin around the area seems loose, but it will tighten up within six months of the surgery. If you have complications like a foul smell coming from the incisions, severe abdominal pain, or stomach cramping, go see your doctor right away. Your surgeon should give you pain medication to help ease the pain during recovery. Always follow the surgeon's instructions for dosage and never take more than the recommended amount of pain medication. In some cases, you may get a pain pump, which is a small device worn in a hip sack that sends local anesthesia into your stomach muscles. You will need to wear compression garments around your stomach for the first several days after the surgery. You can remove the compression garment after a few weeks. You should also take showers instead of baths while you recover from the surgery. Try not to get the compression garment wet in the shower. Use a plastic bag to protect it. Schedule a follow up visit with the surgeon within two to four months of the surgery. They will examine the area to make sure you are healing properly.  They will also ask you about your level of pain and discomfort. They may give you more pain medication or suggest that you try to get up and move around to alleviate the pain. After six months, you will have a scar on your belly from the surgery. This is normal. If you are worried about your scarring, speak to your surgeon.

Summary: Allow four to six weeks for recovery. Take pain medication. Wear compression garments for several days. Have a follow up visit with the surgeon.


If you’re a new rider or working with an untrained horse, try mounting it in the middle of an arena or another open area. There are a few ways to get the elevation you need to mount the horse: you can ask a friend to give you a leg up, stand on a mounting block, or stand on another object like an upside-down bucket or a tall tree stump. If you’re working with a mounting block or another portable object, never bring the object to the horse. Instead, always lead the horse to the object. This will let the horse know that it’s about to be mounted, so it won’t be surprised when you climb on its back. Feeling the saddle shifting to the side while riding is frightening both for horse and rider! So, once you’ve lead the horse to the location where you’ll mount it, reach beneath it and tighten the girth strap. It should be tight enough that you can squeeze a fist between the strap and the horse’s belly.  Many horses tend to hold their breath when you first put the girth on and then let their breath out before you mount, which may loosen the girth. Keep in mind that many horses dislike having the girth tightened and may act out by reaching back to nip you. This is called being "girthy." To keep yourself safe, watch your horse closely, and tie it up while you're tightening the girth. The girth strap is the large strap that fastens beneath the horse’s belly and keeps the saddle from shifting from left to right. After checking the girth, prepare to mount. Gather the reins and hold them firmly in your non-dominant hand. Keep a little slack in the reins so that you don’t accidentally jerk them when mounting. Yanking the reins while you mount may cause the horse to rear or protest.  If you have a horse that pivots away to the right when you start to mount, keep the right rein a little shorter than the left one. Then hold the reins at equal lengths once you've mounted. Do not pull the reins tight when mounting. This is can make the horse back up right out from under you.

Summary: Lead the horse to the location where you’ll mount it. Tighten the saddle girth strap right before mounting. Gather both reins in your non-dominant hand.


Things can be improved greatly by decorating them but they’ll still be a very unusual fashion statement––be prepared to carry it off!

Summary: Attach earring findings to each stopper, threaded through the stopper hole. Wear with amusement.


The main thing you need to worry about when formatting citations in your reference list is to make a hanging indention. That means that the first line of each citation will be all the way over to the left hand margin, but each line after that will be indented. To make a hanging indention, highlight your set of citations, then use the ruler bar at the top of the page. Click on the bottom arrow only, and move it over so that it form a half-inch indentation. To make sure that your page is double spaced, highlight the text, and right-click on it. Find “Paragraph” in the list that appears. Under “Spacing” and “Line Spacing,” select “Double.”



assistant: Summary: Understand what a hanging indentation is. Make sure all of your citations have hanging indentations if they are long enough. Double space your reference page.