<수술전><수술전><수술후><수술후>Since I was young, I was worried about my protruding cheekbones and my slightly prominent square jaw and chin.
I always covered it with my side hair. Although it was a complex, I never thought about getting surgery because bone surgery was such a big surgery for me. I was worried about it since I was young, but now that I’m in my 40s, I thought I should just live, but since I had to take a few months off from work for other reasons, I thought I would never be able to do it if I didn’t do it now, so I got surgery.
After consulting with several places, I ended up consulting with Waigang. I had the surgery and was discharged alone without a guardian, but I decided because I could watch the surgery in real time if I had a guardian, it was a one-person hospital, they do one surgery a day, and the director had a lot of experience.
Since bone surgery was such a big surgery for me, safety was the most important thing.
I arrived at the hospital at 9:30 AM, changed into a patient gown in the hospital room, met the director, waited for a while, and then went into the operating room. As I was lying down in the operating room waiting for anesthesia, I wanted to give up and go home.
I was so scared and thought about what to do if the anesthesia didn't work and wanted to run away, but when I woke up, the surgery was over and I was in a hospital room. I felt relieved to be alive, but first of all, my neck hurt so much. Actually, I barely had any facial pain. When I looked in the mirror, my face was so swollen that I couldn't recognize it, but when the director came after the surgery and said, "You look slimmer," I felt a strange sense of relief. I didn't have any facial pain, but I've never smoked a cigarette before, but I had so much phlegm that it was hard. From right after the surgery until I was discharged the next day, the nurses changed my ice pack all night long, gave me injections, helped me go to the bathroom, and were so kind.
I thought it would be very swollen because the bone was shaved, but it was really the worst swollen I've ever been and it was hard. There was no pain in my face, but it was so swollen that it felt like it was going to burst, and the tight feeling was so uncomfortable. When I watch YouTube vlogs about facial contouring, I thought everyone didn't have swelling, but reality is completely different. The swelling and bruising around the eyes made it look like a human face. I knew the swelling would go down eventually, but I was so stressed and had a hard time because I was worried that it might not go down and that my face would stay like this forever.
<17th day after surgery>
Because of the swelling, it was so hard to look in the mirror or eat, but after a week, life became easier.
I wore a mask and went for a walk, and I gradually got used to it. The swelling started to go down little by little from the first week, and by the 17th day, the bruising was almost gone, the swelling went down a bit, and on the 17th day, I finally got my stitches removed, so I felt like I was flying.
My mouth felt so comfortable after the stitches were removed.
It hurt a lot to have the stitches taken out. But it really happened in an instant.
The swelling is still far from going down, but I am satisfied because it seems like my face shape has been refined. My sensation has also come back a lot except for around my jaw. More than anything, it is amazing that my cheekbones are gone. Now that the swelling has gone down, my jaw area is very swollen, so I am really looking forward to seeing how it will go down.
<4 weeks after surgery>
It is the 4th week, so I went to see a doctor.
I took a CT and X-ray again, and I saw the doctor. I was relieved because I was able to check my bone images periodically after the surgery. It has definitely become much easier to eat and go about my daily life in the 4th week. My cheekbones have softened, but since I have a tendency for swelling to not go down easily, they told me that it would take about 3 months for things to change a lot, so I am waiting with peace of mind. I thought bone surgery was too big and scary, but if I had known it would be like this, I would have done it earlier, even in my 20s or 30s. It was less painful than I thought, and I think it would be worth it if I could endure it for a week in the beginning.
I'm really looking forward to the next two and three months.
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