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

It been a few days past the one month mark. I'm loving my new nose so far, and it's still swollen so I'm sure it will only get better. My nose is still tender to the touch. I've been bumped a few times. And it hurts. My recovery is going well, other than the swelling so today the dr did steroid shots across the bridge of my nose and the tip. Those hurt too. More of a teeth-clenching, eye watering kind of pain. Like getting numbed up at the dentist. My nose is all red and achy now. ????

I'll post a few pics of earlier this week and and just now, after steroid shots. My nose looks bigger today, and I'm wondering if it was from being head butted a few days ago by baby, or because I put too much pressure on it trying to extract blackheads, lol. As an esthetician I can't stand having visible blackheads. It's an obsession of mine. But I should probably hold off until I'm more healed. ????

It would seem that my nose is ok after getting hit. The next day it was still fat and sore but the swelling and pain has come back down again. My nose still hurts if I bump it. Occasionally it will get pressed agains hubby's face when we kiss and I can feel it. You really have to be careful after surgery. And I didn't even have my nose broken. I cant imagine how much worse it could have been as far as recovering from that.

I've lost some of the stitches from inside my nose. I sort of had a L shape incision inside my nose, with the short side going vertically up the interior nasal wall and the long side going horizontally along the very top inside the nose. Those stitches are still there, the ones from the short side fell out a few days ago. On the plus side, I've been able to blow my nose this week! And it's getting to the point where I'm not seeing blood every time. I have had occasions where it feel like a stone if falling down the back of my throat, or I sneeze and I get out these hard chunks of I guess clotted blood. But it looks semi-dry. Gross details; I'm sorry. I'm also getting to the point where my nose isn't constantly draining. At first it was a constant bloody nose for almost a week, the slowly over the last two weeks it's gone from draining blood, to draining a clear-ish fluid. Now it's almost completely gone.

On a happier note, I was finally able to get Lash extensions! I have another review about my eye surgery that made wearing contacts possible. Which was nice for the rhinoplasty recovery. Before now, the extensions would hit my lenses and it was annoying. But I'm feeling really happy right now.

Aesthetically, I've improved my eyes, eyebrows, (microblading) and nose. I've also had my teeth bleached and I've lost 40lbs in the last year. I still have 40lbs to go, but I'll get there. I just wish I wasn't so top heavy. I carry probably 2/3 of my weight in my midsection and boobs. I'm like a DDD/E cup (still nursing though) so on top I'm like a size 14 dress, but I'm a size 10 pants. Anything bigger than a 10 literally falls off my butt.

I'm also excited for Halloween because this is the first year in a long time that I'm dressing up and feeling confident in my costume choice. It took a while to decide but I will be Vanessa (aka Human Ursula) and hubs is Prince Eric. I'm so excited cuz we'll be in Disneyland in 2 weeks for the big Party. I'll add a few pictures for ya! (Hubs photobombed me, lol)

My next post op is October 11th, so I'll post more after then.