Day 3 of surgery (7th Dec 05)

Day 3 - Y-V endo brow lift, bilateral upper eyelid reconstruction, left eyelash ptosis repair and upper eyelid ptosis repair

Day 3 (Weds 7th Dec 05), usual wake up breakfast call with medication and blood pressure; and then mid morning a nurse came in to wash my hair which she said felt like "wood" as it was so hard and filled with blood (I'll post pictures soon). It was very difficult for her to even comb it and she said I needed to use lots of conditioner at home and needed to wash it again. But she did a good job as she didn't hurt at all when combing my hair. (p/s it took me about 7 hours to detangle my hair in stages when I finally washed it at home and I lost a lot of hair during that time - I hope I haven't lost too much (yikes)).

I was given a lot of medication to go home with, steriod tablets, steriod eye drops, antibiotics, anti sickness tablets, tablets to coat my stomach, natural tears, more tablets and the Philippino nurse kindly wrote everything out neatly for me to understand as my vision was very poor and I could hardly see to read the labels and what it was I needed to take. As it was I had to use a magnifying glass at home with light at the end of it to check each time I took any medication to see what it was I was taking, just to check I was taking the right medication at the right time. It has been hard work as I needed to take medication from either 6am to midnight and every 2 hours (if not every hour) and different medications at each time.

The taxi ride home was ok and smooth and I wasn't car sick as I had my ReliefBand http://www.reliefband.com/whatisit.html with me which helped lots during the journey and I also used it on Day 2 and Day 1 of my hospital stay. It was great to arrive home to home comforts though it was the start of me having to look after myself, cook my own meals, take care of medication times and feed the kitties and set the alarm clock to take medications etc which was time consuming along with not allowing me time to rest.

One link I found which was useful re after care for endo brow lift is : http://www.drducic.com/patient/endo_brow.html.