To be honest, he had made a massive work with my nose. It's not symmetric sure, and I can feel that at bone level, but it works much better into hiding it than before. My face was highly assymetrical with a smaller side that literally ->-bleeped-<-ed everything. Now the eyes are corrected by doing an assymetrical blepharoplasty so that they have enough skin to hang at the exact height. Only the mouth remains, but that would require a double jaw ostheotomy for aesthetic purposes, something I can't do anymore.
As far as I know, this was a rhinoplasty with alarplasty and he had intention on reducing the tip (did he said tip-plasty?" I have seen other recent noses, and they look bulbous, too. It's a common thing for the first three months, although noses are the longest to heal.
The forehead yes, it's amazing. A type III complete reconstruction, and I'd say that he also burrowed the "spikes" that went upwards from the brow. If you search my old post when I would rand, my worst issues were the almost diagonal forehead (yeah, it was a friggin' slope, and the nose. Combined they made a rat face. I also specifically asked him if he could alter how the lip connected to the nose, since nose pulled out lip (more rat face). I like that now there is no brow bone to completely hood my eyes, so this time eyeshadow won't smudge and end in the brow as before.
The eyebrows now have a natural curve, but just at the exact point to not to look surprised all the time. The skin is really tight there, and I still have issues with closing my eyes.
On the negative side of things, I've lost a lot of sensitive and considerable nerve damage. I don't have facial issues mobility, but I've lost sensitivity from the crown to the hairline, in several parts of the forehead and eyelids. This came to be a problem during my first shower, since I did not know what was I touching. Not being able to feel the pressure proves to be a problem with my eyelids for applying eyeliner, too. So regarding makeup, when I go back to work I'd limit myself to base and concealer. Right now there's still a lot of glue that is taking a lot of time to go away.
Pain wise, I still have it in the Trach shave and the forehead. Yawning is one of the most complicated issues, although swallowing is ok for now. The forehead is not to be touched for now, and my right side gets either weird sensations or a jolt of pain. I can feel clearly one of the screws.
I'm not going to lie. The first day was terrible. Due to a delay in the date I had the surgery on friday, and the morning of the saturday I was sent back to the hotel with a bag full of pills and a catether. I was in an awful state where I could barely see, talk or eat. And in those conditions, I had to cook (the bangkok rama restaurant is now closed for lunch, and it would have been harder to talk for ordering pizza). The big deal with this date is that there are no nurses on sunday, and I had to spend the worst part without observation until monday. Even if I was given cleaning material for the sutures, THere was a lot of black crust in the first days.
Being realistic, I should have spent the saturday at the clinic, which supposedly is the normal thing to do, but Chett sends his patients too quickly to the hospital. I'm glad somebody could help me, because in that first day post-op I really needed assistance and I should not have been left alone.
Speaking of other things, my voice is still not functional. I have checked that I can still pitch high, but the throat is still too weak. I have also oticed that now I don't physically lock when going up to falsetto. Now there's an empty space where there's no sound production from when I leave my high range until I enter falsetto territory.
Right now I compare this recovery with the future SRS I will have to endure. It will be four crippling days stuck in a bed (and with a catheter again. Did I mention how much I hate those things?), but still, it is not as abad as not being able to look, breath and eat, all at the same time. Even if I had had the money, I think I would have lamented going for the procedure I decide to remove, the jaw / chin contouring. One bone operation is more than enough.
