Post by Darkshine Laufeyson-Barnes on Jul 30, 2021 7:16:12 GMT -5
This is my second major procedure this year but third time going under anesthesia in 2021. I had a jaw surgery in January, and a splint removal in March.
So I'm awake enough now to talk about what happened. Right now I have a splint on my nose and instead of doing a rib graft they took tissue from my parietal temporal fascia just behind my ear. The surgeon did a rhinoseptoplasty, to reconstruct my nose and septal turbinates to breathe better because it was pretty poorly formed from my cleft lip and palate that I had as a baby. He used the tissue from my ear to help with that. After my jaw surgery in January it made one side of my nose collapse even more, so that has been fixed. I also had lip reduction done on my bottom lip since the muscle was kind of damaged there and I forgot how he worded it, and upper lip construction so there are also incisions inside my mouth on the back of those.
I turned on the dreaded selfie camera on my phone and I can actually see a difference in the appearance of my nose and face unlike the last surgery. Shocking. I won't have the best idea of what it looks like though until it's all healed. I think I will be satisfied. I hope. I didn't do these surgeries because of self-appearance issues (and God knows I have plenty of those) but hopefully it will benefit my health and that's all that matters.🤪
So I'm awake enough now to talk about what happened. Right now I have a splint on my nose and instead of doing a rib graft they took tissue from my parietal temporal fascia just behind my ear. The surgeon did a rhinoseptoplasty, to reconstruct my nose and septal turbinates to breathe better because it was pretty poorly formed from my cleft lip and palate that I had as a baby. He used the tissue from my ear to help with that. After my jaw surgery in January it made one side of my nose collapse even more, so that has been fixed. I also had lip reduction done on my bottom lip since the muscle was kind of damaged there and I forgot how he worded it, and upper lip construction so there are also incisions inside my mouth on the back of those.
I turned on the dreaded selfie camera on my phone and I can actually see a difference in the appearance of my nose and face unlike the last surgery. Shocking. I won't have the best idea of what it looks like though until it's all healed. I think I will be satisfied. I hope. I didn't do these surgeries because of self-appearance issues (and God knows I have plenty of those) but hopefully it will benefit my health and that's all that matters.🤪
