Closed Rhinoplasty, Dorsal Hump Removal and Tip Refinement - Draper, UT

I'm scheduled for surgery on September 9th. I'm so excited and nervous. I'm having a septoplasty and turbinate reduction as well so my insurance is covering about $4k of the surgery. My surgeons fee for the cosmetic part is $2,250, facility fee is $600, anesthesiologist fee is also $600; and those prices are for the extra 90 minutes of OR time.

I've always wanted my nose done, for years. I hate the dorsal hump and find that it holds me back. On my wedding day I didn't want to wear my hair up or back because I thought I made my nose/ profile too noticeable. How sad is that? I often don't like wearing my hair in certain styles for the same reason. It's just something I've been really sensitive about.

I've had some breathing / sinus issues for years now and I finally have great insurance so when I finally got in to an ENT, the diagnosis was that I needed a tonsillectomy, adnoidectomy, septoplasty and turbinate reduction. He offered to do them all at once but I always told myself that if I needed anything done to my nose, I'd do a rhino at the same time, so I decided to break up the surgeries. I had my tonsillectomy/ adnoidectomy 6-22-16, and I would have had this sooner, but my eye doctor surprised me and suggested I undergo an operation to correct my eye misalignment. I decided to do that before my nose job since the eye dr may need to rest his hands on my nose. That surgery is this Wednesday and I'm actually kinda scared to have that one done because, well, it's my eye and they are cutting the muscle and reattaching it to my eye. *shudders* the idea of people touching my eye freaks me out, lol.

I had my pre-op yesterday, and paid my surgeons fee! No going back now, lol. I'm actually really excited about this. At my appointment, the dr ad I went over my goals again and I showed him the photo shopped version I did (profile view) and he said it looked good with reasonable expectations. So some of the details:

This is a closed rhinoplasty, and I'm crossing my fingers that he won't need to break my nose (but he reserves that right and decides in the OR.) He told me that sometimes after shaving down the dorsal hump the nose can look kinda flat/wide, so breaking the nose allows him to set the nose so that its nice and narrow. My nose is already pretty narrow though so we might not need to. He also said that if he does I can expect 2 black eyes for about 2 weeks. If not, I may get smaller black eyes but mostly on the inner eye.

Other details, he told me to expect the cast and internal splints with breathing tubes in the nostrils. After all this I should be able to breathe better, which will be nice. I cant blow my nose for 2 weeks, which will be hard for me.

I also brought up concerns for when I go to Disneyland in October and he said I should be fine but to "listen to your nose" if being on really bumpy rides hurts, then maybe don't do those, but if I do it won't effect my results. So we'll see how that goes.

Now all thats left to do is wait...

But I'm going to do some more research and see if I can find a list of anything that might be especially useful to help with healing for afterwards. I'll make a post about what I find.

This is the photoshopped version I showed him.