The LAST surgery!

I am thinking positive today.  Yesterday was the LAST surgery.  Last, final, as in no more…….   It wasn’t nearly as bad as the one I just recovered from though.  Probably because they didn’t stretch, pull, cut and realign quite as much.  Thank you, God!  I can’t say that I look a lot better but I can see where we are going with all this now.  Dr. Wayne (cutie patootie that he is) is so positive and reassuring about all of this that you just can’t help catching some of his enthusiasm.  Yesterday before the surgery he came into the holding area and kept asking me why I wasn’t smiling and happy about what we were getting ready to do.  Well…..could have been because I was nervous or maybe because the previous surgery was so painful and I wasn’t looking forward to more pain or it could have been because those frown lines down the corners of my mouth are what I would like to have fixed IF I ever went to a Plastic Surgeon on a voluntary basis.  Take your pick, Doc.  During our conversation he asked me what I had been doing with the last three weeks and Coach popped up and said “She has stayed on the computer all the time.”  He asked me if I had been blogging about my experience and I said I had.  We talked about it a little and he handed me a paper and asked me to write down my blog address.  Oops!  I was a little hesitant because I wasn’t sure I wanted him to see everything on my blog but I knew I hadn’t written anything bad about him.  Well, maybe I wrote that he looked like he was too young to know what he was doing but that’s about all.  I gave it to him thinking he probably was just being nice.  Coach told me that after the surgery he told him that while he was waiting for the surgery suite to get ready he went online and looked at my blog.  He said it was “nice”, “interesting”.  What does that mean?  Boring…..informative…..????  Well, I will get the chance to ask him when I go back next week to get my sutures out.

Now for the part I know you have all been waiting for………….ta da……the reveal….

What……..you were expecting something else?  Well, considering I had something similar to a trunk growing out of my forehead before, I think this is much better.  Now you must remember that the surgery was just yesterday.  The swelling in my eyes, cheeks and nose will go down eventually and if these scars look like the one on my forehead did after the sutures are removed then it will look 100% better by this time next week.  Doc keeps telling me he has made me a “cute little nose” and I am going to trust him on that.   Everyone from the nurses to the intake folks have commented on his expertise.  I heard comments like “he’s THE nose man”, “if I was having anything done, he would be the one cutting on me”, and “he is the very best”.  I think that the one that really sticks with me is the nurse who said he was like an artist.  She said he looks at every face like a canvas that he wants to  paint a pretty portrait on.  I thought that was beautiful.    As long as he doesn’t paint like Van Gogh!

Well, that’s about it for today.  I can hardly see out of my swollen little eyes and my nose hurts so I need to hit the Tylenol and get the ice pack back on my eyes.  Keep those thoughts and prayers coming.  As one of my granddaughters said last night “Nana, they closed you up and you look not scary anymore.”  Doesn’t get much better than that.