Day 6 - Y-V endo brow lift, bilateral upper eyelid reconstruction, left upper eyelash ptosis repair and right upper eyelid ptosis repair
Today I braved it and drove to the local health and grocery store to get some well needed supplies and 80 mins, including driving time, was all I could manage, as I soon started to feel whoozy and tired amongst walking up and down aisles, making simple decisions like choosing groceries and looking for things like marshmellows to put in my hot chocolate. It's a good job my mother came along with me as I don't think I'd have managed without her carrying the bags. I don't think I was ready to venture out yet; and I think next time I'll do my shopping online, though it was an emergency today to the health store.
When we got back home, it was already time for my next dose of medication and lunch and I was feeling extremely tired; and as I didn't sleep well last nite, if at all, I promptly fell asleep upstairs for an hour on and off until the next alarm rang for my next dose of medication. At least I managed to get some much needed sleep.
My right upper eyelid was smarting today, feeling like it's been cut, and I'd held off on the pain meds for several hours as I'd missed the noon dose. On and off throughout the whole day today my right upper eyelid has still been smarting even with pain medication.
No pain today with the staples in my head and I look very bruised, like I've been beaten up! I have been feeling fairly emotional and tearful on and off since returning home from the hospital. I have been going with the flow and crying when the need arises.
It's Day 6 since surgery and somehow it feels much longer than that. My face seems to be normalising some and I do like the new look and forehead (smiles). I'm just not sure how my hair is going to look when all the staples are out and when I'm able to wash it again; and/or whether I'll need to cut my long hair shorter or get a new haircut. I don't want to be too noticeable at work when I return.
I wonder how long a brow lift lasts - I've read 5-8 years - though if this is how it is going to be, I think I'd be quite happy to go through another brow lift to get that fuller look in the forehead. If Jane Olver hadn't suggested a brow lift to improve the lower lids lumpy section, there is no way I'd ever have considered a brow lift as I was ok with my horizontal frown lines on my forehead and using Isolagen http://www.isolagen.co.uk and my own cells to minimise the lines.
Jane did mention that she'd recommend a few more top ups of Isolagen, 6 vials at each top up, with 6 months in between. If 2 vials cost either £1,500 or £1,700 (depending on which surgeon one sees), then 6 vials will be £1,500 x 3 = £4,500, which is about the same price I paid Chris Inglefield to do my original Isolagen injections including the biopsies. Hopefully when the FDA approves Isolagen in the US, the price will reduce in the next year or so as right now my priority is my next surgery, which will be the lower lid reconstruction to fix the bad job that my original surgeon did.
All in all it's been a very tiring day today. The hardest part, as usual is the meal times, making sure I take the right medication at the right time of the day, and I have a lot of medication to take, steriod tablets, steriod eye drops, antibiotics, stomach liners, antisickness tablets, more tear drops, tear lubricants and they're to be taken each 3-4 times a day. When I had my original bleph last year, that surgeon didn't even prescribe any eye drops or nothing - that's strange. I feel this surgery has been so much more professional.
My eyesight and vision are still blurry on Day 6 which is frustrating. I have to blink lots and it's even difficult to watch tv. I'm sure it's due to the steriod eye drops I'm using though if it's helping prevent infection etc, I'm ok with it.
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