Face and neck lift - wanted work done for the past 15 years

I am one week post a facelift and platysmaplasty. I am 58 years old. I had wanted work done for the past 15 years or so. At 40, was the first comment about my age. Since my daughter was about 2 years old, I started being mistaken for her grandmother, yet people frequently expressed surprise when hearing my parents are still alive--they are indeed alive and well and took care of me after my surgery. When I looked in the mirror, I just didn't see how I was looking 10 to 20 years older than I am--I only really ever saw my face from a straight on front view. I still saw a youthful an girlish silhouette in window reflections, so what was it people were seeing, I couldn't figure out. I actually got quite mad at comments--I didn't care if people were trying to be mean or not--and I wasn't very nice about it. My reaction was what's wrong with that person? I noticed I never got carded in the grocery store when buying wine, yet other people that to me appeared older than me did. My friends around the same age did not have these comments made to them. After about 10 different incidents--I can recall each in detail--where I was offended by an age related comment over the years, as my daughter grew up (she is now 21, I am still not a grandma--my daughter's still in college). I finally went for a consultation at a plastic surgeon's office when I was about 55. I wanted ultherapy, at the time, but was encouraged to consider surgery--specifically a lower face and neck lift--because doing less invasive treatments every couple of years would cost more in the long run and not provide the dramatic results I described. I did not have the money, so I saved up for the procedure estimated at about $9000. Three years later, I went back and had pics taken and a consultation. Seeing myself from angles I never really had before, I could tell what was aging me--that I couldn't really see day to day. I will included these pics as well as after my surgery and update periodically.