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Totally worth it
It's been a while since my last update. I'm now at the 3 month mark and am so happy with my results! I saw a lot of old friends over the weekend and I got a lot of "you look great!" comments but I really don't think anyone can tell I had anything done. The scars are still visible but fading, and it will be a little while before I'm comfortable wearing my hair back in public, but I'm getting there.
Thoughts on the one month mark
I'm one month post surgery today! I saw my PS on Friday and he assured me everything is healing well. He gave me a steroid shot on the left side to settle down a little "ridge" that won't go away. I still have a yucky scab on my right tragus, but it's almost gone now. Overall I'm very happy with the way my face is turning out. Yesterday my husband, who really didn't want me to have anything done, looked at me and said that I looked good and that "you look like yourself". That meant the world to me because we were both a little scared I would end up looking too "different".
Here are some thoughts on healing from my deep plane facelift.
WORK: I went back to work at the two and a half week mark. Visually, it was too soon. There is NO way nobody noticed something was off, but my co-workers are generally very polite and would never say anything like "what's the deal with your face?" I had two group lunches and a happy hour the first week, and i wasn't really up for up close socializing but couldn't realistically get out of it. I've been back two weeks now and am mostly over the self conscious thing. Oddly enough, just last Friday, a woman who works on my floor asked me about my hair, asked me if I'd lost weight, and said, "are you sure that's all? Because you look...different." Well, thanks, sweetheart. I actually had lost a few pounds and told her that , and we changed the subject. (Hardest diet ever, btw.)
SLEEP: It's still hard to sleep. I'm sleeping on my back, not because my dr says I have to, but because my face is still too hard underneath to sleep on the side of my face. Ambien is my friend.
MY FACE: I still have "cheek bumps" that look like little cheekbone implants, but they are getting better, and the bottom of my face is filling out and not so pulled looking. My jawline is awesome. See my car selfie? It's still weird to feel hardness under the skin, but it is getting better...very, very slowly. I still have a wicked bruise on my left side. I don't know why it won't go away. It lioves me, apparently.
SCARS: When do they go away? My left side still looks like Freddy Kruger got me. I use scar gel twice a day like I'm supposed to and do my best to hide them. I bought some concealer at Sephora before surgery and didn't feel like explaining to the twentysomething hipster saleslady what it was for, but she assured me that "it covers tattoos." Well, alright then.
Here are a couple of pictures. Gotta go make dinner now.
Here are some thoughts on healing from my deep plane facelift.
WORK: I went back to work at the two and a half week mark. Visually, it was too soon. There is NO way nobody noticed something was off, but my co-workers are generally very polite and would never say anything like "what's the deal with your face?" I had two group lunches and a happy hour the first week, and i wasn't really up for up close socializing but couldn't realistically get out of it. I've been back two weeks now and am mostly over the self conscious thing. Oddly enough, just last Friday, a woman who works on my floor asked me about my hair, asked me if I'd lost weight, and said, "are you sure that's all? Because you look...different." Well, thanks, sweetheart. I actually had lost a few pounds and told her that , and we changed the subject. (Hardest diet ever, btw.)
SLEEP: It's still hard to sleep. I'm sleeping on my back, not because my dr says I have to, but because my face is still too hard underneath to sleep on the side of my face. Ambien is my friend.
MY FACE: I still have "cheek bumps" that look like little cheekbone implants, but they are getting better, and the bottom of my face is filling out and not so pulled looking. My jawline is awesome. See my car selfie? It's still weird to feel hardness under the skin, but it is getting better...very, very slowly. I still have a wicked bruise on my left side. I don't know why it won't go away. It lioves me, apparently.
SCARS: When do they go away? My left side still looks like Freddy Kruger got me. I use scar gel twice a day like I'm supposed to and do my best to hide them. I bought some concealer at Sephora before surgery and didn't feel like explaining to the twentysomething hipster saleslady what it was for, but she assured me that "it covers tattoos." Well, alright then.
Here are a couple of pictures. Gotta go make dinner now.
Day 16 and I finally look pretty normal
Saw my doc yesterday and he said I was healing up nicely. I still have some upper cheek swelling that lakes me look as though I had cheekbone implants instead of a facelift, and the bottom of my face is still a bit narrow as a result of the swelling pulling everything up, but my doc assures me that in a week or so, I won't really see that anymore and my face will have a more natural shape. I saw a couple of friends last night who knew what I had done but hadn't seen me since the surgery, and they said I looked good, so I will choose to believe them! It was nice to finally do something social after two weeks of being a hermit.
New pics are from yesterday (white shirt) and Thursday (navy shirt). I am very happy with how my jawline is turning out, especially when compared with the before picture!
New pics are from yesterday (white shirt) and Thursday (navy shirt). I am very happy with how my jawline is turning out, especially when compared with the before picture!