Surgery with Grigoryants

Just a quick question- has anyone travelled after surgery? As soon as my finals are over I'll be flying back home to the east coast to spend the holidays with my mom and I am wondering, does flying cause a lot of swelling, even a few months after?

Anyone who has travelled- do you have any tips for minimizing swelling? Should I take a decongestant before or should I maybe tape?

Just wanted to apologize, I have been so busy with school (finals are right around the corner and this is my hardest quarter yet!) that I've been forgetting to update. Not much has changed since my last update, but on thanksgiving my older brother and cousins didn't even notice a change, which made me relieved. Once I feel like there's any updates I can post, I will be sure to do so. :)

Hey guys,

So today has been exactly 2 weeks since my surgery (the time just flew by!) and first day back to work.

I can't remember if I've voiced this in the past, but as far as everyone in my life knows I did this surgery to fix all of the breathing problems I've been having. This is absolutely true and I can honestly say that had it not been for these issues, I would not have undergone a surgery at this time in my life (I am just SUCH a scaredy cat, plus I had found other ways of disguising my nose so it didn't really bother me- I can talk more about this later). But since I was already going under the knife, I felt it was silly to not do everything at once.

To my knowledge no family member, friend, co-worker has had plastic surgery and I have always been a VERY private person, so to most people I didn't mention the aesthetic improvements that this surgery would result in. I just didn't feel comfortable letting them know and felt I would be judged.

I was really nervous this morning going into work because i still feel very plastic surgery/"done". I heard this is common at first and kept reminding myself that I am probably the only one that notices.

When the only coworker I would have to see today (it is a a slow day and I work for a small company) showed up, I was certain she wouldn't say anything. But I literally had just finished saying hi when she said, "oh my god!! You look SO different! You don't look like yourself at ALL, you like like a WHOLE different person!" Then she proceeded to inspect my profile two inches away from my face (before I could turn away) and said "wow it seriously almost looks like you had a nose job. You look SOO different!" I even dyed my hair yesterday to distract from my nose, but she didn't even notice the hair until after I mentioned it. Strange thing is is that this coworker is the least vocal of the bunch.

I wish I could say her reaction didn't bother me and that I don't care what others think, but it really did affect me and make me very self cautious. I know it is a big change, but I've heard a lot of times people don't notice? Maybe it just doesn't look natural? Or maybe if others didn't know that my functional surgery was for my nose, then it wouldn't be so obvious?

Either way, I kind of feel like hiding right now. I think it does look good but I do look very different. Once the swelling goes down though, I'm sure it'll look more natural.

Sorry for the long rambling- I just feel a bit sad and don't have anyone else to mention these things to that might understand. Thank you for reading. :)