3 months post op....so happy:)

I haven't posted on this thing for about five or six years , But I was just looking back at old photos, and oh wow! The black hair photo is my before shot, and the blonde haired one is 6 later. So incredibly glad that I did this, and I never regret it . I never think about my nose anymore :-)

3 months post op and I love it! I'm so glad i went through with this. Such a difference and looks so natural :)

I'm not very good with updating this thing, but I found a wonderful surgeon and am scheduled for early November. I had met with 4 plastic surgeons total and I knew instantly that he was my guy:) He is younger and has only been in practice 3 years, however, he is double board certified as a Facial Plastic surgeon and an ENT. Most importantly he made me feel so comfortable, and instantly made me feel that we were on the same page, as far as what needs to be done to my nose. I asked him how many rhinos he's done and he said total is about 300-400, which surprised me because he's so young. One thing that separated him from the others, aside being an actual Facial plastic surgeon, was that he said Rhinoplasties were his favorite procedure to do because it is so challenging. I want whoever is working on my nose to have passion for what they are doing:) Anyway, he said the whole procedure would take about 3 hours. Sounds like a long time but he's doing a lot of detailed work one me. Along with taking down my hump, he is going to be adding spreader grafts, straightening my bridge and my tip ( apparently the big challenge is that my bridge and tip are off centered) deprojecting my tip, adding some sort of grafting around my nostrils ( I think it's alar rim grafts, but need to ask him again) very slight tip work, and then he will be cutting the depressor muscle so my tip will not droop when i smile. I'm very excited but now that it's scheduled I'm going through the "Am I doing the right thing phase" only because I'm a mom who is choosing to have surgery which always has some risk, so of course I think of all the "what ifs". But I just know if I don't do this now, i will regret it later. The whole point of doing this is so I don't have to think about my nose anymore. I've always been self conscious about it, and as much as I'd love to be the kind of person who can "just live with it", I could do that, I just don't want to! :) So there ya go :) Any tips or advice about anybodies own personal experience would be great:)