Ready to Do This! Baltimore, MD

Hi, everyone! So, I've been lurking around this site since I decided to have rhinoplasty and have found a wealth of info that has been helpful and decided it was time to start my own review. I have shared my decision to have surgery with a lot of people but if anyone sees this then I guess they will know. Like most of you, I have always felt that my nose has dominated my face and wanted to change it. My profile is awful, small hump but very prominent and pointy & from the front my nose is wide and bulbous. Now that I'm 40 I feel like it's time to stop wanting, and go for it. I have done a huge amount of research and been to two consultations, the first of which went ok but I didn't feel like I should make a decision without shopping around some more. Thank goodness I did! After expanding my search area from D.C. to Baltimore, I found some great reviews for Dr. Capone in Baltimore. The consultation with him was a difference from night and day from the first consult. He spent at least an hour with me, talking and asking me what I did and did not like about my nose instead of just telling me what was wrong with it. He is very personable and talked to me as if I was an equal and explained the processes of what he would recommend. He also examined my nose thoroughly and determined that I could benefit from septoplasty as well as just the aesthetic aspect of the surgery ( which by the way he did not gouge up the price). He let me know that his goal as a rhinoplasty surgeon is to have each patient breathe better, or at least as well as they did before surgery. The first surgeon simply asked me how my breathing is, I said ok most of the time, end of conversation.
Next one of his assistants took tons of photos of various angles that Dr. Capone will work with and I will see the results on my visit on the 22nd. This is much more reassuring than the simple side and front photos taken at the previous surgeon who only brought up my frontal photo and squeezed the sides in to make my nose narrower. It didnt even really look any different other than narrower. So, needless to say, I'm excited to see what Dr.C will have to show and discuss with me! I will update soon after.

Pre-op appointment went well today. I really liked the digital imaging photos. As bulbous as my nose is, for some reason I am even more excited about what my new profile will look like than front view. Maybe it is because you can't always tell when someone is seeing your profile and how awful it is, so you get more sensitive about it??
Anyway, got all of my paperwork, pre and post op instructions, prescriptions etc. Now just need to get my physical and I'm all set for May 13 at 9:30.
Oh, we also discussed the possibility of a small chin implant to balance out my face- which I'm considering. Will have to see about finances before I can make a decision.
Thats all for now, except more and more excitenent and nerves setting in..but mostly excitement!

Here is what my profile will look like, hopefully. I've heard that the actual results are "softer" then the digital image. Good riddance pointy nose!