Desired Outcome: Ability to Intake Unencumbered Breaths, and to Look Prettier. - Newport Beach, CA

I was okay with my nose. Yes, I did look like a witch, but that's okay, I am one! He he he. I am Native American and French-Irish-German. My nose was narrow and tall with a bump, and a slight bulge at the tip. My nose and I, we shook hands and were friends.
When I was about 20, I started struggling with sinus infections. I got really sick. The only thing that helped, oddly, or not so oddly, was singing and performing Opera, which I did. I opted not to have surgery, but had issues breathing since. Since I am now addressing my breathing issue and having my nose broken, I might as well have a more proportional nose.

have chronic sinusitis. I get colds and sinus infections, pretty much continuously. I could rarely breathe through both nostrils. If someone would've taped my mouth shut, I'd have been toast! I consulted with Dr. David Bray in Torrance. Frankly. I found it insulting when he told me, "Your nose jumps off your face." I'll skip snide comments, and just state that I wasn't impressed with his work on noses.
I went to Dr. Ali Sepehr who ordered a CAT Scan to see what was going on in my sinuses. He told me that the problem was bad, but not bad enough to recommend surgery. I felt pretty angry because I had turned down a surgery recommendation years ago, but I had become sick and tired of being sick and tired. I love it how doctors think they know what you are experiencing in your body by looking at a test result or an x-ray.
I was determined to find an ENT that could do plastic surgery. Dr. Sajjadian had a lot of posts on this site stating that he helped patients with issues breathing through their nose as well as the cosmetic issues.
I have a great insurance plan but he was out of network, so not covered by my plan. Since I work full time, and and grad school full time, I decided that keeping on shopping for doctors was not the way to go. My insurance wanted me to do separate procedures, and I am not letting them break my nose three times!

Dr. S said that he would scrape my sinuses and fix my deviated septum, do something to the turbinates and a rhinoplasty.

Because I only have a certain amount of vacation from work and school, I set a date where I could have 6 days off and booked the procedure out of pocket.

Part of prepping for surgery involved preparing my husband! He told me early on in our relationship that I am "Romanesque," which must be a term that he made up all by himself. (I googled it, and it refers to art and architecture, but not really people.) He might have meant that I have an Aquiline, or Roman nose, but I think he's talking about my features as a whole. So, he said he didn't want me to change my nose, teasing me that I wouldn't be the woman that he married. (Woman marries man thinking she can change him, man marries woman thinking she'll never change...)
Ultimately, he wanted to make sure that I was picking a good doctor, and that I was going to have better health. He wanted me to get everything in writing to make sure that I would achieve what I wanted. He supported me to the extent of paying for half the surgery. Love him!