To finish this, I'll do a short recap.
Procedures:1. Type III forehead reconstruction.
2. Orbital Rim bossing removal.
3. Zygoma sandwich osteotomy (zygoma arch cheek lift) LeFort III.
4. Mandible correction, jaw surgery. Square jaw reduced, rounded.
5. Genioplasty, chin surgery. Height and width correction, shaving of ends.
6. Hairline lowering, 1.5CM.
7. Hairline correction: closure of hair loss areas above temples.
8. Brow lift (micro screws to affix them)
9. Facelift.
10. Rhinoplasty, hump removal and tip modeling.
11. Liposuction chin, neck.
12.
Liplift (not executed, will be done at later stage)
This is one of the hospital theaters, it'a hybrid one and was built in 2013. State of the art. In fact, when I was wheeled into this room I thought I was inside some kind of spaceship, green and blue light, screens everywhere, it was awesome especially for me, because I like high tech gadgets. They asked if I wanted some music, but I am a composer/musician myself so and I don't like listening to music that much. Just my opinion.
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The next photo is when all the instruments are present:
I stepped unto the table, and lay down. Was relatively comfortable, much more than with my SRS. Different table maybe. The anesthesiologists (3 where present) went on to do their thing, and also said I would be getting a foot IV as well for extra safety. Yes, bring it on, I like extra safety. It was buzzing with a complete surgical team, and they also brought in students to learn. So it was packed, I was ready to give a show! after a few laughs, they got serious and gave me the mask. I breathed a couple of times, and down the rabbit hole I went...
A nine hour second later, I woke up. I was calm, and I knew where I was. My forehead was freezing. And I noticed a huge cold pack on it. I asked them to remove it, because it was too cold. I got a smaller one, and I used it couple of times. But not often. I don't remember a whole lot, because I went in and out sleeping all the time. I was on medium care, with 4 other patients. One had a triple bypass and was screaming his head of every 10 minutes when he awoke. At night I was treated by the other 3 patients to a private chorus of snoring old men... Was funny in some sense... I got morphine shots when I wanted them. Each night I got a shot for anti-blood clotting. I vomited blood at one point, which was awkward, to say the least. It's best that I forgot that night. Blood was taken once a day by staff. Then they said I lost some blood, but didn't need transfusion.
We were monitored 24/7, with a nurse behind floating screens that came from the ceiling. The nurses took turns with other nurses. They gave me a tiny ice Popsicle, which was sweet. But when licking, I fell asleep and the Popsicle was melting on my jacket. LOL, so a male nurse would clean me and we laughed, although I could not laugh.
I slept a lot, and before I knew it I was brought to general care section, where everybody ends up. Here, there isn't much attention. But I could get it with the press of a button.
Was in a lot of pain the first two days, and many annoyances. I spoke about them in my first post. Interesting thing is, I don't remember much. Maybe it's a way of the body to forget intense emotional things for a while. All was really uneventful, except for the 100+ high fever I contracted. Which made my head feel like I was set on fire, compounded by all the physical annoyances and pains. Two days of Hell I said. I guess it was so, but I don't remember it anymore. Maybe the nightmares in the days after it had something to do with it, like processing all this onslaught?
I spent two days in bed, sleeping mostly. Sometimes I got out for a walk. I ate liquid foods, medical diet food. I don't remember much from these days. I slept them away, and waking up every 15 minutes from hospital noises.
Then I went home. So I spent 3 days in total. Was enough for me to walk around like I used to do. I called a taxi and went home.
