Sugar Land Lip Lift! - Sugar Land, TX

I just wanted to do a quick update to say one more time that my doctor was GREAT and I recommend him wholeheartedly. He did an amazing job with my scar; it seems to be healing perfectly. I definitely don't want to give the impression that he didn't do a good job by marking "not worth it" for my review. As I've explained before, I just didn't find the whole process and effort to be worth the outcome, all things considered - but this has nothing to do with my doctor. I asked for it to be subtle, and he excised the amount of skin that we discussed. His assistant has been impeccable with answering all of my questions promptly. Regarding my nose, she has reassured me that it looks enlarged because of swelling, which will subside. My swelling was aggravated and prolonged by the fact that I wasn't able to sleep upright throughout the night during the first two nights following my surgery. I didn't realize that not being able to stay upright could effect swelling this far after the date! I'll post more pics when there's a bit more of a change to show.

Think my nose is shaping up! The swelling seems to be diminishing very gradually, though I'm not sure if this is actually happening or if I'm just gradually getting used to it. Either way, I'm a lot less worried about it now :)
My scar seems to be healing pretty well; I'm posting pics of that. I went back to work after 10 days, and I have to smile a lot at work because I work at a restaurant. Smiling feels strange, like I'm trying to pull a tight string inside my skin under my nose. Sometimes it hurts a little and I hope I'm not doing some sort of damage to my internal scar. I asked Dr H's assistant Elisa and she said it was fine...hope she's right!
I'm going to wait 6 months and see how things heal up, then I might get more skin excised. For now, the very small difference that I am slightly able to see is in the distance between my nose and upper lip. It's such a tiny difference that it really is barely, barely noticeable. My lips themselves and my tooth show haven't really changed since before. I really do want to make clear that I'm not at all anti lip lift; I think it's an awesome procedure, lots of people have fantastic results, and you should absolutely go for it if you've considered it well and found a good doctor. I just put "Not Worth It" for my review because for me, the time off of work, effort, healing process, and money didn't quite ad up to justify the extremely small result at the end. Hope that makes sense. At the end of the day, though, I also must say that I am VERY grateful that my result was too little, instead of being too much. We've all read horror stories about people who get lousy lip lifts that excise too aggressively (probably from inexperienced doctors), and so I totally appreciate Dr H's insistence on an initially conservative approach.
I also want to say that I am very thankful to RealSelf. Everyone on this site is so supportive, helpful, considerate, respectful of each other...and downright nice! Thanks RealSelf, and everyone on it :)