Lip Lift - Honest, Caring, Kind. This is Dr. Tong!

Just wanted to quickly update where things are at:
Exactly 2 weeks post lip lift, I felt like my healing had taking it's newest progression into "normalcy."
My lip has dropped quite a bit and I am honestly so relieved. At this point, I couldn't care less about results as I already know that my goal in creating volume in my lips was unsuccessful. The lip volume I had acquired in the 1st week post-lift, has pretty much dropped 90% to its initial volume level pre-lift. Back to using lip liner :(
Truthfully, I felt displaced/depressed not looking like myself for more than a week and just wanted everything to go back to before. That being said, I think the shorter philtrum, which was something I didn't initially care about, compliments my face.
I am now able to smile my second biggest smile, which is a pretty big smile. Note: I don't care when I feel my scar potentially stretching at this point. Emotionally, for my best well-being, I need to smile when I feel like smiling. Having my big grin back has been pivotal in allowing me to feel like myself again.
At 16 days post, I was able to sing a pretty normal vocal warmup as long as I didn't stretch my mouth too wide. I have now seen industry colleagues from 14 days post-lift and they have not noticed/mentioned the scar. I am shocked and grateful to admit, I look normal again. The bunny appearance has almost completely dissipated with the drop.
Scar: Healing incredibly. I do wear concealer over it whenever I am seeing anyone, mainly to diminish the redness. Nothing I can do about the current raised aspect of my scar. This'll just take time.
I started with scar gel on the same day my stitches came out, 6 days post-lift. I was so worried that I had botched the scarring process by starting on scar gel too soon. BUT, I cannot believe how fast my scar is healing as a result. Not sure I would have healed this quickly if I had continued with vaseline alone?
The bottom of my nose (not sure how to describe this part of my nose) on the right side is pinned down. It looks like the surgeon stitched it down to my face so the right side of my nose is missing a bit of that clear definition from when your face becomes a nose. As a result my right nostril is also slanted towards my face. Right nostril is a bit bigger than it was before and now faced downwards on a bit of a diagonal. I am hoping that this will fix itself and detach from my face as I continue to heal. I did write the PS with phots and the response was that healing looked normal and to give it time. My scar is also lopsided. I can now see that the incision went way further into the right side than the left. I'm not sure if this is why my lips are now asymmetrical?
There is also a tiny bit of bubbling on the right side of my scar, where the stitching looks a little "swervy." Again, hoping this fixes itself.
Feels incredibly helpless to know there is no way to fix anything that might be off at this point. Stressing me out if I think about it, realizing I might have to get a revision whether I want one or not, should these things above not fix themselves as they heal.
Almost forgot to say: Last night I woke up with an insane itch inside of my scar is that I could not reach by scratching, pressing down on it, anything! It was just a burning itch for awhile. Hoping this was a one-time thing, ha
Maybe this is why plastic surgeons say you have to wait to see the results? Maybe most things you see aren't accurate until the 6 week mark? Not sure.
So relieved to look more and more like the me I know and love with every passing day!

Stitches came out on Monday. Healing doubled in speed once stitches came out.

Opted to buy scar gel. Dr. T said to start scar gel right away, so I've been using it since Monday. In hindsight, I wish I had waited another week for wounds to close fully, before starting scar gel. Regardless, I look so much better today. It no longer physically looks as though I've had a procedure. I actually feel worse than I look. There is still much tightness and some periodic pain.

Both Dr Tong and Jean both said my healing is coming along amazingly. Said I'm healing faster than 90% of patients who've had the same procedure. Guessing much of this is due to Dr Tong's stitching technique. The rest is likely due to my genes (my mom also heals extremely quickly and rarely scars!)

Unevenness concerns: Think it made Dr Tong a bit uncomfortable when I again expressed these concerns. He asked me to trust him and just wait for these next 6 weeks to pass, in which case he said everything would even out. I am going to trust him and say nothing more until my 6 week follow-up has come and gone. I am aware I'm likely not an ideal patient for any plastic surgery as I am a complete A-type perfectionist. I also tend to get high levels of anxiety if I sense anything is "off track." .. Clearly I'm a "dream patient" .. :D

Have a lot of thoughts about everything but am going to hold back until the 6 week mark, at which point I'm hoping to fully sum up this experience and then leave it behind :)

Just took my last antibiotic. So glad! I'm in a funny headspace as I wish everything was wrapping up, but have a feeling I might need to plan for a revision this year, as my right and left lip are uneven. This is not what I planned for.
In all honesty, I quickly closed the reviews where something like this happened as I was certain this would not be my result. I thought because I crossed off all of my t's and dotted my i's, that something like this clearly wouldn't happen to me. And it did.
All of this is my way of gently warning people that there is no way to ensure you get an ideal result with this procedure. Not sure why this is? Not sure if everything "appears even" to the plastic surgeon as they're performing the procedure, and then once swelling goes down, the uneven results appear? Or if this is something that can be avoided on the plastic surgeon's end?
I considered saying something to Dr. Tong before he did my lip lift. Thought about saying something during our 2nd consultation and thought about saying something on the same day as the surgery, but I decided that it would potentially be a bit redundant/insulting to state the obvious. And now, I deeply regret not saying something. Although also unsure if it might have made any difference.
Going in to see him tomorrow to have stitches removed. Will be asking what needs to be done to fix this. As my face is my livelihood (the only reason I chose to do this), I cannot end with this as my final result. But taking another 6 weeks off will amount to much income being lost this year.
Will update once I've gone in tomorrow.