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Botched
Where the ear lobe is attached, the skin burns and is really tight; but my ear is pulling down not my jawline pulling up, if that makes sense. The end result is my ear lobe looks too wide/long and I now need surgery to 'release' my ear.
I cannot in good faith recommend this Dr.
Personally, I believe DRs should be judged based on how they treat/react to their mistakes; this Dr has (figuratively speaking) run away like a scared little man. He has reneged on fixing my ear at my 3 month review, hence I have to have it fixed elsewhere at my own expense.
Will post again at 3 months.
Week one to Week 3
My stitches are healing well, I had the suture that was overlooked removed 2 days ago. My Pixie Ear is looking slightly improved. With my hair down you can't see any of the scabs etc I would not recommend going into public the first week, it was a bit awkward turning my head and I kept the opening and closing my mouth to a minimum. Plus I had the pressure garment on 24/7.
My jaw looks ok, if anything, I hope it tightens up a little more. But it is early days and we'll see where I am at in 3 months.
The First Week
My only concern thus far is, the day after surgery, I removed the pressure garment and saw straight away that my left ear was weirdly attached to the side of my neck angling downwards (the recognised term is Pixie Ear). I called the clinic and requested that Dr Sharp attend the one week Post Op visit. The appointment was supposed to be suture removal by the nurse only but I was advised the Dr was at the clinic at the time of my appointment and he would 'duck in for a quick chat and have a look'.
At the week one Post Op visit I showed the Dr my Pixie Ear and he advised it may just look a bit weird because of swelling and that it may right itself once the swelling subsided. He also took the opportunity to remind me again that I had a deformity and asked if I remembered he did point this out to me during surgery :/ He advised that he would consider doing a review, (if necessary, at my 3month Post Op review, which I was happy to hear
It is only now when I look at the pics that I see my face was more swollen than I thought it was, my ear looks slightly better and I will post a pic at one month Post-Op.
Provider Review
During the procedure the nurse and Dr Sharp conversed over the top of me about where they like to eat out, I would have preferred they concentrate on the task at hand, the anaesthesia needle hurt like crazy, because they'd forgotten to tell me to take the Valium which I took 1 minute before they started cutting my face. What really left me wondering if this was a mistake, was part way through the Op the Dr asked if anyone had ever told me my ears were attached weirdly. He proceeded to tell me at least 5 times during the Op I had an ear deformity. I wished he'd taken more time to examine my facial structure before the Op so he could take my abnormal ear attachment into consideration.