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51yr Old Face, and Ready for a New One. - Columbus, GA
UPDATED FROM msdenice
11 months post
1yr update
WORTH IT$8,300
A couple of weeks will be a year so I thought I would update my pictures.
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UPDATED FROM msdenice
3 months post
3 Months.
I am 3 months out of my surgery, and so glad that I did it. I couldn't be more pleased.
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May 21, 2014
You look really good. I am nearly 5 weeks post op and am impatient for final result. Little worried the sag is coming back in neck as my swelling subsides. Nurse at review said it is too early to say yet and that if I was worried still at 3 month review to tell surgeon as they have an obligation to put it right (not that she thinks there will be anything to put right by then). I may get my eyes done too. After seeing everyone on this site who have had their eyes done I realise I shouldn't have been such a coward and had mine done too. Once again you look great, thanks for the posts.
May 22, 2014
Thank you. I know how you feel about being impatient, but it don't help. So I decided that I wasn't going to be. I tried my best not to look at myself everyday cause if I did I didn't feel like I was seeing much results. And that was the best for me to do, cause if I waited about a week in between looking at the pictures, and looking in the mirror I could see the difference. I have very little changes now, but that's fine with me. I am completely happy with the work that my surgeon done. My three months check was on Monday and he told me that he thought everything was healing great, and that I looked wonderful. I had to agree. I feel as if it took at least 10yrs off my face. I still have a little numbness in places around my ears, mostly on my right side. That was the side that had the most swelling from the very start. But each and everyday it gets better. My lips are so much better than they were in the very beginning. I still have a little numbness in the top lip, but he said that it could take up to six months for all the feeling to come back, but again each day they seem to be more feeling than the day before. The brow lift I had done, has just about completely healed very little scarring, a little still in the hairline on my left side. Other than that I have very little, and I my thought is that probably in a few months none of my scarring will even be noticeable. As you can see in my pictures I wear my hair very short. I had planned on letting it grow out to cover any scares that I would have, but since there is very little and what it there no one notices I just decided to keep it short.
Hope you have the results that you were hoping for. Just have faith that the surgeon you chose has done what you was asking him to do. There was a reason that you chose him in the first place. That's how I looked at mine. I chose him cause I felt that he was the one that I trusted in doing the job I wanted, so I couldn't question his work until I at least give it time to heal. And I am glad that I did. I had people to say wasn't you afraid of what it might turn out like. And my thought was I wasn't happy with what I looked like, that's the reason I went to see him in the first place, so I had to have faith in the work that he was doing. Now when I went Monday to see him my sister went with me and she is going to have him do a neck/jowl lift on her. She told him she thought he did a great job with me, so now she wants it done too.
Again I hope you get the results that you want.
May 21, 2014
Stunning 10 plus years younger for sure :-)
May 22, 2014
Thank you so much I appreciate that. Makes me feel good to have people say that it makes me look younger, and it to me is just a plus. I never wanted to really look any younger I just wanted to look 52 without all the sagging and wrinkles.
May 22, 2014
Fabulous -- your neck and jaw have such a perfect line!!
May 22, 2014
Thank you so much. I appreciate that. All kudos go to my wonderful surgeon. I am very happy with all the work that he done. And its great to hear when people say that you look good. Makes you feel good too, so again Thank you.
May 22, 2014
It's nice to be three months out -- remember the 2 weeks --- one month! Looking good and only gets better.
May 22, 2014
Yes I do!! And your right each and everyday it does good better. Thank you for the compliment.
UPDATED FROM msdenice
2 months post
51yr old, and ready for a complete make over.
I am 8 weeks from my surgery, and loving it. Wish I had done it before now. I couldn't be anymore pleased. I had a neck/facelift, lip implants, and the corners of my eyes lifted. When I went back for my 6 week checkup he said everything was looking good, but I still had swelling more so on the right side of my face and eye. He did say when I come back on my 3mo checkup that if my right eye corner had not changed enough he may have to lift it again. I took it that it would be just in the office nothing major. Sounded like maybe just a stitch or two to pull it up. But anyways I thought I'd post new pictures at two mos.
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April 13, 2014
You have come such a long way in two months which is astonishing given the amount of swelling post op. What a fantastic result, congratulations and enjoy :)
April 13, 2014
Thank you. I sent my new pictures to my doc just for him to see, and to ask him what I need to be using to wash my face in, and if I needed anything else specific. And he wrote me back and told me just to use whatever I wanted to clean my face with, but to make sure I used a good moisturizer with a sunscreen it. And that when I come back next month that he would be prescribing me a Retin A lotion to use on my face. And lastly he told me I was looking FABULOUS in my pictures. That made my day. Cause I know he did the work but I haven't seen him in a few weeks and when I did he said that I was doing, but still a lot of swelling. So for him to say I was looking fabulous well it just made me happy. I hadn't really thought of it, but I feel that way too. People can't believe how fast that I have heeled, and how much that my appearance has changed. I am so glad that I did this, just wish I had done it sooner.
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