With Day 4 comes some perspective. You know what? If you're gonna have this surgery you should really push for maximum movements. I don't even know how people end up with the pig nose and monkey upper lip, since I have 0 physical symptoms in that direction. But then maybe the alar cinch was just very effective.
ALSO Sinn like Arnett does the V-Y plasty on both lips. I mean I don't know if it's permanent. But I have Tom Hardy lips right now and I don't mind at all if they stay. I think this is something Sinn is just good at so it's further undermined any chimp lip that may have occurred.
But you know what I gotta say? The older you get, the less this surgery is really gonna make a difference in your life. I mean sure if you're a fit and healthy 24 year old male or young girl, and you have this surgery and it pops everything into place with your face --well you got like 20-30 good years to enjoy it. But as soon as you're in your 30s time is ticking and I just don't think it makes as much of a difference --even physically, the skin is so much slacker that it doesn't really show up as powerfully.
So if you're gonna have this surgery go balls to the wall and go early.
Oh well, nothing to report. Healing is fine, still swollen. I could totally be back to work or home at this point as long as I took breaks. That's pretty crazy considering I was in surgery for almost 9 hours.
But I've definitely found that people who have really good surgeons usually recover really fast, except for Arnett and Gunson patients, they always recover really really poorly. I don't know why, they often lose teeth, feeling, have complications with their HA etc. etc. etc.
Oh well, Dr. Sinn wants to take the splint out just to test bite and I think he'll do that tomorrow.
I'm not trying to be arrogant but all the nervous breakdowns and trauma and mental problems and horror stories about recovery sound so distant to me now. I mean it's not a walk in the park ,but it's not that big a deal whatsoever. If my surgeon said I had to go back into surgery RIGHT NOW for another procedure I wouldn't be concerned. But I think I'm gonna take the time out to let it all heal and stuff and then figure out if I want a chinwing later on (which I probably will).
Man the area where Sinn did the submental lipectomy feels really really hard (and it's of course swollen so it's delivering the opposite effect right now). Oh well..... I probably won't update much anymore. It is what it is.