A small update, with apologies for raising the thread.
I just had a follow-up meeting with my doctor and he assured me that the loose skin around my jaw that I've been really worried about will definitely improve. He seemed pretty confident about it, so I have to say my worse fears have been assuaged, for the time being. On the downside, it may take quite a bit of time, up to a year at least, before I can tell how much improvement I can expect -because as the doctor said the hanging skin will improve but it will not completely go back to the way it was before. So I have to set in for a long wait.
I'm an idiot so I forgot to ask what exactly is it that's causing my skin to hang down like that. I'm not sure it's swelling, only. It may be scar tissue or just the muscles slowly reattaching themselves to my bone. Or maybe the little fairies ang gnomes that keep my skin tight are just taking a while to build up their numbers again after the incursion of the brutal surgery trolls. Who knows.
To be honest, I think I've started to see a bit of an improvement. I think the shape of my chin is a bit more defined now, and the jowly area looks a bit less swollen, overall. It's hard to tell because although I've been taking lots of pictures in the same few poses, for comparison, even a small change in the position of my face can make a big difference in how my jawline looks. But I think it's getting better.
So thank you ladies for helping me calm down when I worried that my face was ruined.
Now, all that is just about the skin hanging off the sides of my jaw. There's also some skin hanging under my chin and that's not going to go away on its own. However, the doctor agreed to do liposuction for free, as a revision and I'm very happy about that. I had some liposuction there already, as part of my FFS but I guess it wasn't enough. It's true that I had some fat there, before the FFS, but because I had a long chin you couldn't really see it, certainly not from the front. Well, now you can. And after the liposuction, it will disappear again. It's magic!
Btw, the doctor did say that if I'm still unhappy with the way my jaw looks after a year I can always have a facelift. I doubt that's going to be for free though, so I'm hoping it won't be needed. He says he really doesn't think it will. We'll see.
And that's it. Thanks for all your kind words again, ladies.
