I had my first follow up consult with Jane Olver today. Getting there was something of an endeavour as I was driving around North Greenwich car park for ages trying to squeeze in somewhere to park my car. It's the first time I'd ever tried to park there and the car park was absolutely full to the brim. Anyway, I made it on the tube ride to Bond Street though was let down by my TomTom GPS system which I was relying on to get me to Harley Street, though thankfully I recognised where I was, having worked in the West End/Oxford Circus many years ago.
Jane seemed pleased to see the results of my brow lift. She seemed bubbly today albeit had a cold and her voice was hoarse. She apologised for not seeing me after my surgery and explained that she'd come down ill on the Tuesday and had to leave surgery to go home. She said she usually does see her patients after and hoped I hadn't felt neglected.
She took pictures of my brow lift and also pictures of my eyes closed, left eyelid being the worst of the two; and commented that she may need to lift the lower left lid (which is what that original surgeon kept messing up - even after a canthopexy in July this year). She said we had to keep an eye on my eyes not being able to close and monitor the situation.
I'm not sure if she intended on removing my staples today and if today was just a quick visit to see how I was doing; as she initially said my staples weren't going to be removed today; and then she changed her mind and tried to remove a few staples. Before she tacked the staples, she removed my dissolvable stitches on my upper eyelids. She said only 3 of them would hurt but oh no, more than that hurt on each eye as she went snip, snip and snip and then tugged. My eyes watered with the pain. Ouch! She said that having the dissolvable stitches removed would give more movement in my upper eyelids. The removal process really stung. OUCH!
Then she tacked the staple removal. Oh boy, I was not expecting the pain. Some were excruciating, like teeth being extracted and my hair being pulled at the same time, and I bled (don't I always!), and I kept flinching. She said some of it was my hair being caught when trying to remove the staples which was causing the pain. It is what is is; though the pain was so totally unexpected as most of the websites I have been reading say the staple removal is not painful. Perhaps I have a low tolerance for pain.
Jane only removed a few staples from the top of my head and a few times there was a bit of blood gushing out, though she said that heads are very sturdy, bleed a lot, though bounce back really fast. When she had difficulty removing one of the last staples which caused me a great deal of pain and blood, she decided to stop and said we'd reconvene next week to remove the rest. I was grateful for the reprieve as the pain was fairly bad. Imagine the pain of your hair being yanked out of your scalp - that's something like what the staple removal feels like and when hair gets caught with the staples, it's even more excruciating.
Jane advised me to not touch or wash my eyes for the next 24 hours and to take care of my forehead similarly for the next couple of days.
We didn't get to touch on my left eye chemosis (I think that's what it is) as I forgot about that and we didn't discuss anything else too much. Jane wasn't feeling too well and neither was I as when I got there I was feeling fairly drained from the journey and light headed per usual (had felt nauseaus earlier and was wearing my nauseau watch to help with any nausea). Hopefully next week we'll both be back to some form of normality and discuss more.
Jane asked how I liked my upper eyes and I said I wasn't sure yet what the final result was going to look like as there seemed a huge gap between my eyebrows and the upper lids and it was all so new to me. I still can't imagine as that area looks swollen though from what i can see so far I do like it a lot and it looks very much better than my old upper eyelids. My lowers just let me down a lot now though we have to be patient and wait for everything to heal before we tackle that area.
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