Lower face neck lift

Thank you geraniumkiss . I'm starting to get over the guilt every time I look in the mirror . Looking forward to 10 days off . Even if it won't be for pleasure.

Thank you ..it will be worth it. I had to cut corners and worked more. I have been thinking about this for at least 3 to 4 years .

I agree ! Thank you Sharen ..

I saw your review .. You look great ! More refreshed and natural . Just the way I want to look.

Thank you Anewmesoon ! I haven't seen a bad review yet .

Isn't Dr. Harley the best? And I know what you mean I didn't have many questions either because the site is so thorough. My main question now is about the bags under my eyes and whether I can do it at same time as the PO because unlike you my skin is not great and I've got lots of wrinkles. I did get my hair colored and cut today and it looks really good so that was a boost. And now that I've been with my feet up for a while actually I'm feeling a lot better so I'll stop feeling sorry for myself - you really did make my day.

Red , it was very hard for me to put myself out there I would not have done it if I didn't be in courage by all the post on here who shared there amazing story's . I told a co worker today that I was getting this done and she said I was crazy and I should really think about it . It gave me doubt but after your reply and southernsisters you two made me feel so much better. Thank You !!

I'm so glad that your knee is recovering !! I cant wait to see how amazing your going to look ! I already think you are now

Flower, you are so pretty already and you are very lucky to be able to do this while you're young enough to enjoy it and benefit by getting it done by the best. Oh I have been hesitating putting my pics out the but I will soon.

Thank you txann , it was very hard to put myself out there for everyone to see but now that I did it im glad I did . If someone is going to judge me for wanting to do something to make me feel good about myself. thats there problem. :)I'm a hairstylist and look at myself in the mirror a lot and I am hard on myself but I'm going to do what makes me happy and I think if someone isn't happy with something about themselfs then do something about it . This your life my life not there's :)

It's sad there are people out there who are always judging others

I think I ment this for namenotalreadyused but I guess it's for anyone who reads this

You are so kind I really don't look at myself and think I'm at all beautiful ! I never did . it's funny but I do feel like I'm on your team now lol

I said "Biltmore Babes", red, but I think I like "Harley's Girls" better!

"Harley's Honeys"? For the sake of alliteration?

I say we go with "Harley's Honeys"...except for the male patients. My husband will just have to be content to be a "Harley's Hunk'a, Hunk'a Burnin' Love" or "Harley's Hunk" for short!!! LOL!!!

Yay! A Harley's Hunk! That is AWESOME! That made my day!

"Harley's Hunks &Honeys"...somewhere up in Asheville, the very dignified, very reserved, very classy Dr David H Harley is cringing! LOL!!!

Works for me...

That is funny lol

Tracyanne ! Thank You ! I never thought I would get feed back like this from people I don't even know .Its really nice. I read your story you are a very strong and courageous women . And I thought you look beautiful . I know sometime we see more than what others do . When I see myself in a picture I don't feel like I look like that when I look in a mirror . It's hard to see what others see .

Thank you for the kind words, fflower. I have to say, I think we do a sort of strange thing when we see ourselves in pictures or the reverse cameras on our phones or even when we catch accidental glimpses of our reflections at unflattering angles...Yes, we do see ourselves sometimes in a way that is different than the picture we have of ourselves in our heads. And yes, sometimes it can really be disheartening - inside you still feel like the person you've always been, since you were 8, or 16 or 35...but all of a sudden a much more mature person is in that picture, and we notice the signs of that chronological aging, and it can be depressing and even demoralizing. And we may start to fixate on what bags and what sags we see. That happened to me, obviously, and I had surgery to fix it. But I've come to understand that while I saw the things I hated about my face, other people really did see a more well -rounded version of me. I have a very young boyfriend (25) of 2 years, for instance, who thought I was very beautiful. I have a friend who thinks I have beautiful eyes, for example, and she texted me something recently about that, and she hasn't even seen the upper bleph results, she just thinks of me as "her friend with the pretty eyes "...she has never thought of me as her friend with the baggy eye lids. I guess what I'm trying to say is, you're bigger than the sum of your parts. I'm not saying that the things you see and don't like are not real, that's for you and Dr Harley to decide. What I'm saying is, please don't think that other people only see those things or that they even mostly see those things..
chances are, what they see is what I see when I look at your pictures, which is a very attractive blonde! We get a little caught up on this site with zeroing in on flaws, because hey, it's a plastic surgery /procedures site! And I personally think you will have some amazing results!!! But in the meantime, you should remember that you are probably your own harshest critic. Most of us are.

That was really nice ! Thank you ! You are exactly right.

Your lucky it's only 2.5 weeks away . I know the emotions of undergoing something that is life changing but I look at it in it only can get better and from lookin at all of Dr Harley's work of art I'm sure your going to look amazing too !

Also how many arnica Montana C ? I'm lost

I found Hot snapsz on Amazon looks like it would be useful.

Hi fflower- Just saw this post...The most important things to me in the first 10 days were: fresh blueberries and cold-pressed pineapple juice, arnica, bromelian, my pain meds, starbucks, Netflix, things I could eat that had low/no salt content (i ate a lot of carrot cake from the earthfare bakery, I am ashamed to say), my travel pillow (which I used even in bed), the eyedrops (both kinds, there is one for night that is almost like Vaseline), MY HUMIDIFIER, peroxide and qtips and antibacterial cream to clean the incision sites, Mederma and silicone gel (I used Scar Away) for the scars after the stitches were out, my HUGE sunglasses, as well as gel packs to put in the freezer for icing my face. (If you are not having a bleph, then you won't need the eye drops or the humidifier.) I would get at least 2 to 3 tubes of the arnica pellets and be prepared to take 5 pellets, under your tongue, at least 3 times a day. Bottled water, too, you want to stay hydrated. I stayed on pain meds the whole time, but I experienced no problems with constipation, which I attribute to the cold pressed pineapple juice I drank tons of and the millions of fresh blueberries I ate...LOTS of fiber in fruit...but I had a stool softener on hand, just in case. I was in hotel rooms for the first 12 days, and I had my boyfriend who was a SAINT and treated me like a princess, so I was able to rest and heal like some old-fashioned heroine from a novel on her couches and pillows and basically to do nothing but sleep and watch Netflix and drink lattes or sparkling water and eat fruit and sleep some more...other women who have had to jump into the real world sooner may have a different kind of list of what was helpful to them in the first couple weeks...but that is mine. I will keep thinking though...

Thank you !! Very helpful. I think RS should be so happy to have you here on there site . You give out so much to everyone here !! You write so well and are very well spoken. I too love reading everything you say . You just don't answer questions in a short way you really do it with really wanting to help ..you go beyond your answers to answer .I appreciate it and am happy you and everyone on here are sharing there stories . This has helped me so much.

fflower, thank you for saying so...I'll tell you, though I'm just "paying forward " what was put out here in this site for me when I joined. Because of some of the other women who freaky took the time and energy to explain the whole process I was not only to find the right procedure but to find some peace of mind. Believe me, my surgery is still a Big Secret from most of the people in my life, and I have a constant fear that sometime will find me out because of my posting on this site. But for me, (and this doesn't have to be your expetience, I'm just speaking for myself) it became really important for me to "bare all" on Real Self, pictures and everything, and to give others what had been given to me. As I've said before, I've found that posting on this site and contributing to this community has been a life saver for be getting through my own process

Sorry for this typos, btw, it always happens when I post from my phone!