Botched rhinoplasty mess left by 1st Workers Comp quack FIXED by Dr. Ardeshirpour at Loma Linda when Others Said Impossible

I am a high school teacher. My first surgery to repair my face was botched by Dr. Carly only a surgery center in Riverside. Is horrible job left me with daily nosebleeds for four years and so did my right eye open. Dr. K kick away at The Shirley eye institute at cuss fixed eye but said he could not handle nose. Four other surgeons tried and failed to get past workers comp bureaucracy. I will be forever grateful to Dr. A for fighting to get the surgery I needed to stop bleeding and breathe right. It has not been easy, and my first 10 hour surgery will require another to fix my nostrils. However, early review is fabulous. I am still swollen and sore, but even now can breathe better than I did before! He has given me hope that this may end well after all. He has restored my faith that there are good, caring, honest skilled doctors out there that will take on your case, even after another doctor has botched you so badly others won't consider it for any amount.

Sorry I have not posted sooner. Although there were a few setbacks (Dr. A warned me, so I did not freak out :) I was able to call him when my stitches started to break and he had me come in to his office, on a SATURDAY, at no additional charge, and numbed me up to throw another 18 stitches up in my new nose for those that were broken.

While there was some tight feeling for a few weeks, I even am able to smell a bit now, something I thought was gone forever. Once I realized what the first workers comp quac, Doctor Carli, had done to make my shattered nose worse, I waited for years, with daily nosebleeds so bad sometimes I was late to work at my new school site - it was awful.

For the first time in four years, I am looking at being able to get to work on time, which will be a huge stressor gone. I know when I go back in August Dr.mA will evaluate my nose to see if he can/ wants to take a bit of ear cartilage to bring my nostrils down so you cannot see in. He said that would be a quick in-office proceedure versus a 10.5 hour marathon, something he had to do when he had to grab some of my rib to rebuild the whole support structure.

It even seems like my skin is cooperating, slowly covering what little rib bone used to be visible.

So, II will upload a few more photos, and while it is still swollen at the tip some, it is not bad a all even as it is.

I will take some photos and update this weekend but breathing is significantly improved. Other than some little bumps on either side, much better and my nose does not collapse anymore.