Before <[day of surgery] revision eyelid surgery + eye correction photos> before <[before surgery] BEFORE> before <front comparison photo before and after surgery> before <3M Nexcare warming pad instructions> This year, the first digit of my age changed. I've entered the second half of the hundred-year life era. Raising kids, working, and running forward with my eyes only on what was ahead, at some point I looked at my face and it was completely aged.
While I was taking a break, I got an estimate at ㅇㅍ to do the eyes and nose surgeries I had had long ago, both of which were revisions, and I had decided to go ahead with the surgery, but then a sudden interview and a command to report to work came in, so I canceled the surgery with tears in my eyes, set up my laptop, and hurried off to work.
But what happened. After I got to work, they had put me in as a manager instead of the developer I wanted, which made me angry, and because there was no opening, they said I had to be a manager. I had no choice but to quit.
I couldn't get cosmetic surgery, I lost my job, and I was so angry I was huffing and puffing. Then a friend of my eldest daughter had eye surgery, and I ended up going along, got a quote, and booked the earliest possible surgery date.
(ps: I had it done by Director Kim Do-hoon at Tobi Plastic Surgery, and I am so, so sorry to the manager at ㅇㅍ. They were so kind and helpful.. I'm sorry.)
Human greed really is cunning. I had been opening my eyes with my forehead, so my forehead was already covered in wrinkles, my eyes were sagging, and even though I had double eyelid surgery long ago, my double eyelids were still thick and droopy, so it became a difficult surgery.
Sedation, sedation. Well, whatever. Since I'm getting sedation, let's do everything we can do. (If you have money, you don't have time; if you have time, you don't have money. That's the truth. Still, let's do it because opportunities don't come often.)
- Revision double eyelid surgery (including eye correction) - Lower eyelid fat repositioning - Liposuction (cheeks, double chin) -> These were the original goals.
But on the day of surgery, one by one, more procedures were added. Deep cheek area? To lift the cheek fat even a little, they strongly recommended thread lifting, so
+ Thread lifting, 2 long threads on each side = 4 total + On top of that, by chance, 4 short threads on each cheek side = 8 total + Corners of the mouth + lip filler (upper, lower) (I've always been bothered that my lips were small, had no color, and no volume. Lips are said to hurt too, so let's do it while I'm under anesthesia.) + Rejuran Healer, entire face (4 cc total) (My skin only bothered me for spots, but why did it look so rough.. let's do the painful Rejuran Healer HB while I'm under anesthesia.) + Added forehead wrinkle + cheek Botox
After adding everything, I suddenly got scared. Can I really do all this? Ah, whatever, I thought. If not now, there won't be another chance, so I just swiped my card for the long-term interest-free installment plan.
I was a little upset when the director said my eyes were old, too thick, and that the droopy, wrinkled parts might not improve, but I liked that he spoke honestly.
I got the anesthesia at 12:27, and when I woke up in the recovery room it was around 15:40? Had the surgery been a little over two hours?
Well.. I'd read a lot of reviews, so it didn't feel that awkward, and all I wanted was to reduce the swelling somehow. I have a trip to Jeju planned for the day after I get my stitches removed. Because of that, I didn't want the signs of cosmetic surgery swelling to show as much as possible. The first thing I did was look at my eyes in the mirror by the hospital bed. The right side, the part the director mentioned, looked uneven.
Took a taxi home. (Taxi fare was almost 30,000 won) As soon as I got home, I put the ice pack I had frozen in advance on my eyes and worked hard at it. Someone said to do 10 minutes and rest for 50 minutes, so I tried to do that as much as possible, and it seemed like the right eye was slowly going down and starting to settle into place. (Phew, thankfully.)
I was told to keep my head as high as possible while sleeping, so as soon as I got home I raised the recliner and my bed angle as high as it could go.
Current time is 8 p.m. and there's not much pain. If anything, maybe because of the thread lifting on my chin or the cheek liposuction, the area below my ears hurts a little, but not enough to... It's not even enough to take Tylenol. .. (Maybe because the anesthesia hasn't worn off?) I really acknowledge that the director makes surgery not hurt. I acknowledge it again.
For now, let's keep watching. The main goal is to manage it so it doesn't swell much on the second and third days as much as possible.... I have a lot of gatherings. I need the swelling to go down quickly..
From other reviews, for the medicine taken after surgery, people apparently go to the pharmacy themselves before payment and buy it, but at Tobi Plastic Surgery, they took care of everything, including the medicine, for me. Also, the ice-only cold pack they gave me at Tobi was better than the one I had bought in advance. There's no need to buy one separately. But I already had one of those 3M Nexcare long rectangular packs for the neck, and it was very useful for cooling my chin. (For reference) I still have to keep going to the admissions briefing I already signed up for, and there are too many church gatherings too. I'm praying the swelling goes down quickly. I'm really looking forward to tomorrow. Fighting, fighting, fighting
I'll post again on day 1 after surgery.
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