47 Year Old-it's About Time!

When I was very young, my nose was broken by a boy jumping on me in a public pool. That created my deviated septum and I believe the large dorsal hump. The overall largeness of nose is hereditary though. My mother has the same one and doesn't understand why I want to change it! I tried to explain that if she passed down varicose veins, I wouldn't want that either, but she doesn't get it! Since I was 15 and really noticed my nose (from a boy pointing it out) I've wanted it changed. Now that my kids are grown, it's my turn!

Surgery is tomorrow. I'm not nervous about the surgery. But I am nervous that I'm not nervous! Does that make sense?

The eye swelling might be going down a little but it's still pretty bad. I've determined that I look like the disfigured sister from Reign. Not a lot of pain but more like a pressure headache. I wish my dr had given more instructions for care. Should I be cleaning the incision line? It's pretty crusty.

I'm on the fifth day post surgery. The vast majority of swelling is gone. My jowls do seem a bit swollen which is weird. But I no longer look like Clarissa from Reign! I didn't take any pain pills yesterday, including just plain old Tylenol. I'm very curious to get this cast off, especially to see how it looks with no hump! Also the incision line. My surgeon surprised me the day of surgery by saying she was going to do an open instead of closed. When we discussed originally, it was closed with no external scars. So now I have this line under my nose I was not expecting. I know it should be no big deal but I keep remembering a review I read where the line didn't heal symmetrically.