July 12 – 15 Nearly one month after the surgery
My face is considerably less swollen, and I’m beginning to see a difference, especially when I compare my before picture and a current one. My former undereye circles are WAY better, though my neck and jawline seems about the same (I didn’t need much there). My former “deputy dawgs”—the loose skin on the cheeks—is mostly gone. I look like myself, but better. Definitely better. I’ve never looked at my face so much in my life. I was trying on a scarf in a shop, and looked into a tiny slice of mirror—I finally had that “ah ha” moment that so many others have told me about. I could see that I looked different, and pretty darn good. Of course, it didn’t live up to my fantasies of having the face of an airbrushed teen model in the cosmetic ads—but that’s just what it was: a fantasy, like having the “perfect” marriage, career etc. My right eyelid is almost normal, and the left is still continuing to catch up to it. I fear that I may not be able to raise that eyelid all the way again. I wondered if this was a by-product of the surgery, but when I took a good look at my “before” picture, I see the eye was not as open as the other. Things we don’t notice about ourselves! I’m visiting Dr. Leon for a checkup on July 15—30 days after—to see if I’m progressing normally or if something else has to be done.
On the 15, one month after the surgery, I voiced my concern over the swollen eye again, and was told that I needed to give it time to heal from the prior infection. Neither doctor in the room looked closely at it. I’m happy with the rest of the work, however—I’m still getting “pings’—those sharp shooting pains that last a few seconds to tell me my nerves are reconnecting. I think it’s a good thing I have “dead zones”-as feeling increases on the sides of my face (from the inside out, which is normal), I’m beginning to feel the healing muscles that were cut—feels like a bruise deep under the skin. Not bad except when I press on it. Sutures remain itchy—it looks like I have lice. I have to be careful about that in public.
My face is considerably less swollen, and I’m beginning to see a difference, especially when I compare my before picture and a current one. My former undereye circles are WAY better, though my neck and jawline seems about the same (I didn’t need much there). My former “deputy dawgs”—the loose skin on the cheeks—is mostly gone. I look like myself, but better. Definitely better. I’ve never looked at my face so much in my life. I was trying on a scarf in a shop, and looked into a tiny slice of mirror—I finally had that “ah ha” moment that so many others have told me about. I could see that I looked different, and pretty darn good. Of course, it didn’t live up to my fantasies of having the face of an airbrushed teen model in the cosmetic ads—but that’s just what it was: a fantasy, like having the “perfect” marriage, career etc. My right eyelid is almost normal, and the left is still continuing to catch up to it. I fear that I may not be able to raise that eyelid all the way again. I wondered if this was a by-product of the surgery, but when I took a good look at my “before” picture, I see the eye was not as open as the other. Things we don’t notice about ourselves! I’m visiting Dr. Leon for a checkup on July 15—30 days after—to see if I’m progressing normally or if something else has to be done.
On the 15, one month after the surgery, I voiced my concern over the swollen eye again, and was told that I needed to give it time to heal from the prior infection. Neither doctor in the room looked closely at it. I’m happy with the rest of the work, however—I’m still getting “pings’—those sharp shooting pains that last a few seconds to tell me my nerves are reconnecting. I think it’s a good thing I have “dead zones”-as feeling increases on the sides of my face (from the inside out, which is normal), I’m beginning to feel the healing muscles that were cut—feels like a bruise deep under the skin. Not bad except when I press on it. Sutures remain itchy—it looks like I have lice. I have to be careful about that in public.
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