Hey everyone, so today I am officially 20 days post op. These past 10 days have still emotionally been pretty rough for me because I’m still having a hard time recognizing the person in the mirror. Physically the recovery has been pretty easy for me, as you know i was only wired shut during my stay in the hospital and then was allowed to wear orthodontic elastics afterwards. I am allowed to remove my elastics whenever I eat or brush my teeth. Actually I saw my surgeon on Friday, and now that I’m going back to school (tomorrow) he told me I can wear my elastics only when I go to sleep and don't need to wear them during the day. I have been eating pretty soft foods, nothing to crunchy or anything, yesterday I did eat a piece of pineapple actually and it was fine. The swellings gone down a bit, I feel like it goes down a bit everyday. Yesterday we had a get together at my house, although I’ve been eating fine I still got more tired than I usually do after cleaning the house, or maybe that could be due to my lack of physical activity these past 3 weeks, I’m just out of shape. The hardest part has been adjusting to my new look for sure, since I’ve been on winter break these past 3 weeks, all I’ve been thinking about and reading about are jaw surgery recoveries, and hoping that my nose goes back down to what it was. My surgeon told me on Friday that I need to wait a few weeks for the swelling to go down, and if I’m still unhappy with my nostrils he may be able to do something about it, he didn't specify what though, and I was too depressed to really ask either.
Im going back to school tomorrow, full time, and I’m so stressed out about going back, I’ve only told 2 of my close friends about this surgery so I’m really worried about what people are going to say when they see my tomorrow. I hope no one notices, though I really doubt thats going to be the case, I’m not really in the mood to explain what happened to my face over the winter break. But at least now that I’m going back to school, it’ll feel like time is flying by that way the recovery process also (hopefully) won't feel that long. I am seriously overthinking this whole thing and I really hope everything goes smoothly, and that the size of my nostrils decrease on their own.
