Septo/Rhino with Dr. Grigoryants!

Not too much to report. I still swell after exercise and first thing in the morning, but it's not too uncomfortable. Honestly, I barely notice it. Still, nobody, NOT ONE PERSON, has noticed. I visited friends that I hadn't seen in awhile a week or so ago. One of them made a comment about how I had "the perfect nose" and I thought she knew, but then when I told her about my surgery, she was like, "But wait, hasn't it always looked like that? You always had that perfect slope, right?" Maybe the people in my life are just not very observant, which is fine by me!

The timing of my surgery has turned out to be absolutely perfect, and I'm honestly just really happy that I did it. It didn't have this dramatic impact on my life, because I was already pretty okay with myself. It's just one less thing that I think about.

Happy healing, everyone!

Wow so everyone who has had this procedure is right- the month after your surgery really flies by. I thought I'd share brief update on my experience, as well as a frontal pic.

First, let me just say that not a single person has noticed. Really. Other than the friends I told about my surgery, nobody has said anything. Even if they did notice and just didn't want to be rude by asking, I'm grateful for their silence because I don't want to feel obligated to explain my decision to everyone. I know a lot of people feel bummed when nobody notices, but it's actually made the whole process a lot smoother for me. It's reaffirmed what many of my close friends already told me- nobody ever paid that much attention to my nose. Probably because they were distracted by dazzling personality.

Next, the nose itself! Overall, I'm very happy. It still looks super strange in pictures. I really do look like I'm straight out of Whoville. I don't fully have my normal smile back, so I always look a little constipated when I smile in photos. But that is to be expected. It still swells so much, and I'm sure the hot humid climate here doesn't help with that. I clean it (probably more often than I should) and I only just recently stopped sleeping with my head elevated. I tape every night, which I'm assuming helps, but I'm frankly just not the most observant person. I'm not too concerned with how it looks when it swells. Mostly, the swelling is just a general tightness and discomfort, and if it happens when I'm out with friends, it makes me just want to go home and lie down and watch Netflix with my cats. Maybe I'm just old. Oh well.

Since I'm practically at one month already, I'm going to try to work out this weekend. I'm sure I'll feel winded after like five minutes, so I'll just have to work my endurance back up to what it was before. Well, actually, better than it was before, hopefully, since I was a super lazy slob the month before my surgery.

Another thing- Expect crazy boogers even a month out of surgery. Some of them are super awesome and I take way too much joy in getting them out. It makes me feel like I've accomplished something, you know? lol.

Well I'll stop rambling and just post a picture of my much-slimmed schnozzola! I hope you all are doing well with your healing