60 Year Old Face After 50lb Weigh Loss Needs a Lift!

Well I went for my 2 month check up with Dr. Boll. She is very pleased with my progress and is very pleased that I am happy with the results. She said I have healed really well. The places in my hair where the skin is gathered isn't flattening out to her liking so she wants me to do massage on it to help it along. I don't have to go back again for 3 months and only so she can check on the scars.
I still have some numbness, not on the surface skin but deep under the skin, which she said is normal and could take up to a year to fully come back. She felt my neck and said she doesn't feel any lumpiness at all in my neck.
I got my hair cut a different style and really short. I swear the next day when I went to work EVERYONE make a comment about how good I look with my new haircut and beautiful it made me look. Now when I see people that didn't know I was having a facelift see me they always think it is the hair. My BF and I are calling it my $10,000 hair cut. LOL!
My hair stylist was totally blown away at how natural I look. After I left he was talking to his next client about it and she said she had been researching getting a facelift and said she wanted Dr. Boll's name and number. He called me and I gave him the information and I am going to give him some business cards when I go. Women always tell their hairstylist when they are thinking about a facelift. I am sure he will refer people to Dr. Boll. I told him I am available to talk to anyone about my experience or let them see my results in person if they want. If it weren't for people sharing their experience with me I wouldn't have know what to do and not to do.
I added some new pictures but they are actually from 3 weeks ago and my 2 month mark was 1 week ago. Close enough!

Had my 4 week check up with Dr. Boll this week. She was pleased with my progress. I had a couple of lumpy spots on my neck and she said that it is swelling. I thought swelling would be the entire neck, I didn't realize there could be isolated pockets of swelling in small areas? She recommended that I do light massage once a day to help move the fluid out. Which I did for a couple of days then I decided to try sleeping with my compression garment 2 nights ago. Not only did I wake myself up 6 or 7 times by snoring I kept my BF awake all night too. :-( I just can't wear that garment and sleep in my bed. Which is unfortunate because it really helped to reduce the lumps in just one night.

So last night I put it on when I got home from work and took it off when I went to bed. And the lumps are almost gone now. So from here on out I will continue to wear my garment at night while watching TV then take it off before bed until my next apt, which is not for a month. I want to get the best long term results I possibly can so I am going to do whatever I can to achieve that.

I wanted to share this with everyone in case you didn't know that swelling is not always your entire neck. If you look at the neck picture you might be able to see the lumps I am talking about. I want to add that I could wear my hair up or behind my ears right now because my incisions are so light nobody would even see them unless I pointed them out. I am still in awe at how quickly one can recover from such a surgery. Gotta love modern medicine!

Also, I asked Dr. Boll how much changes I will see from here on out and she said that the changes from now on are going to be very minor and very subtle. She said I will probably notice but nobody else will. So I am not going to post any pictures for a while until I figure out how to do the before and after side by side pictures.

Well here it is week 3. I don't see Dr. Boll until next week because she is on vacation. My left ear incision still has some discharge and I continue to use Aquaphor behind both ears and applying sterile pad strips over it. I am using Silicone Gel on the front of my ear so my hair doesn't get greasy. That is what you see as white on my ear. My scars on the front of my ear are not visible but I still use the gel until I see Dr. Boll and get directions to do something different.
I have slept in my be without my compression garment for 4 nights and have no swelling issues. I do sleep better and woke up a couple of times laying on my right side, which is how I slept before surgery. My neck is still tight but not choking or uncomfortable, it just feels like I still have the compression garment on only loser.
I finally started wandering to my previous department at work where the people are more comfortable with me. The men say nothing they just look puzzled when they talk to me. The women say "what did you do" and then tell me how great I look. My previous manager told me she is envious and my previous co worker said "Damn girl you look goooood, you got it going on". LOL! 4 of them said "Wow your plastic surgeon did a really good job". I explained to them that I still have a lot of healing to do and won't see the full results for another 5 months. I have no swelling at all and I think my cheeks have gotten smaller. I hope they stay the size that they are now because I always had high prominent cheekbones when I was younger. Here are the pictures you can decide for yourself. I will post less pictures now since there doesn't seem to be much improvement, the differences are so subtle it might just be noticeable by me and my BF.