So what exactly am I
talking about here? After surgery I woke up in the recovery room, in agony and
totally groggy. I woke up with weird numbness and a crazy level of pain
radiating along my jaw, down my neck, back and shoulders. meaning I was
completely paralysed in these areas and unable to move my head. On top of that,
I had a splint in my mouth, which was not holding in place my bottom teeth, as
I now had a 3mm overbite and I had a lot of excess saliva in my mouth. Anyway,
besides all of this going on, I was very aware of how painful the bridge of my
nose felt. It was so painful that I actually thought it had been broken. I
didn't remember my surgeon talking about a nose job and I had no way of
checking what was going on or why it hurt so much.
I was wheeled back to
my room an hour later to be welcomed by the sight of my mum's horrified face. I
had external stitches and a noticeable red dot in between my eyebrows. All of
which I was totally unaware of and too drugged up to care about.
After a couple of
days in hospital I was able to look in the mirror and see the images mum had
taken of me on her camera phone. It was then I noticed the bloody scab between
my eyes and what seemed to be the main cause of all my nose pain.
Before I was
discharged I had to have the splint removed by my surgeon's assistant. It was
causing me to gag and produce a lot of saliva. And it was also restricting me
from drinking and swallowing properly. When he removed the splint I was finally
able to talk with a little more clarity. It was then that I asked what had
happened to my nose.
My surgeon's
assistant went on to tell me that the dot was caused by a pin that had been
inserted into my face during the operation in order for my surgeon to use as a
reference point to align my jaws. He assured me that my nose wasn't broken, but
admitted that he was quite baffled as to why it was causing me so much pain.
Over the next few
weeks I visited the hospital for a weekly check up and was told to avoid my
stitches when washing my face. I was told that my nose dot would disappear
within a few weeks, the pain would subside and the dot would simply dry up like
scab and fall off.
It went on for weeks.
I was careful not to scrub it and gently patted it with wet cotton wool when I
washed my face. Eventually the scab fell off, revealing what I felt like, was a
mammoth hole in my face. As we can see from the images, it was not big, nor a
hole, but merely a small dent. To be honest, I was mainly annoyed that I'd never
been told anything about this pin or the possibly of it marking my face.
Thankfully, the pain in my nose had died down and I was only left with the dent.
The dent that I still have to this day.
You can now continue the chat and speak with other patients on my new closed Facebook group:
Looking forward to connecting with you soon!
Lots of love always,
Steffie
x.x.x
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