50 Year Old Lower and Upper Blepharoplasty - London, GB

And in the evening... I have remained sleeping up on my little wedge pillow, with v pillow behind & 2 more in front of all that (semi-sitting) in all these weeks. My husband hasn't dared to complain! Not once have I lain flat - so why haven't my dark shadows gone? I look like a drug addict every morning & late every evening. There is gradual improvement every week.. & I mean Very gradual. I can cover this with concealer throughout the day. But I had hoped to do as all the other ladies do, and dispense with concealer after this procedure! I've read about iron deposits being left behind from the blood after bruising so will ask my surgeon about that at next visit (next week). I bet he'll tell me to be patient! Grrrrrrr. Any advice out there please?

I was quite hesitant to post a review on here as I'm really not into blogging etc, valuing my privacy above most things! However when researching what I really needed to have done to my poor ol' baggy eyes I could not have found a more valuable and helpful resource than realself and all those contributors that had gone before me! Big thank you to everyone out there who helped me firstly to make my decision at all (when I initially stalked the website!) and then to those who helped me laugh through the ugliness, discomfort, sickness, nausea, oozy yukky-ness and lumpy-bumpiness (aka "contour issues") of the whole procedure. I will continue to heal and hope it gets better and better! I'm very pleased I did this.

Had my 1 month update with surgeon yesterday evening. All is good. Had 2 pesky stitches removed from behind ears (dissolvable - huh!) which is a relief at last. My worries about neck relaxing were largely put to rest - I have large submandibular (salivary) glands there, and that's one of the things stopping me getting a nice 90 degree angle (along with age, posture, skin laxity) all of which I had been warned about before surgery (apart from the glands which only revealed themselves after the bullfrog neck and been tightened, they were hidden in those despicable folds)! At least it's not that my neck is 'on the slide' generally!
I did some drastic gardening yesterday, repeated chopping of long-arm shears on the neighbour's Russian Vine and had to keep stopping and shakily drinking litres of water (30 degrees - v unusual for UK). Definitely put strain on that new neck, silly me. Surgeon said no heavy work till 6 weeks, and this morning I have woken up with 2 lovely black eyes again... So upset. I hope these go quicker than the originals!