I had cheekbone surgery, square jaw surgery (they said they would remove only the cortical bone?), and deep cheek fat removal at ㅁㅇㅁㄷㄱ! My bruising and swelling were really severeㅜㅜ Maybe because of the deep cheek fat surgery, even the flesh inside my mouth swelled up, so it looked a little gross. Anyway, I took herbal medicine to reduce swelling quickly, so the really bad swelling started going down rapidly from day 4. Now I’m on day 9!
It was definitely a complex for me, but the director said my side cheekbones were not severe and that we should not cut the jaw angle below the ear, so he said he would just shave down the cortical bone(?) area. I also thought leaving a bit of the jaw angle under the ear looked prettier, so I agreed to do it that way!
After surgery, my cheekbones didn’t hurt at all. Maybe because of the general anesthesia, my throat felt scratchy, and that hurt more. On the day of surgery, only a little bruising showed, so I was able to go to the mart! The problem was my jaw. My jaw hurt so much!! I took painkillers and all, but it turned out that it wasn’t the operated jaw that hurt. Because my skin is weak, the area under my jaw where the bandage was wrapped had all peeled, the blisters burst, and it was oozing. The peeled area was what hurt, not postoperative pain, I thinkㅎ If you have weak skin like me, I think you can ask them before surgery to put something like Medifoam under your jaw in advance.
At first it was so hard because I could only eat thin rice gruel and beef porridge, but now I’ve kind of developed my own know-how, so I cut spaghetti into tiny pieces like porridge and drink it while trying not to chew as much as possible! It’s hard to call it chewing, but I can’t help moving food around little by little. I bought an immersion blender and grind things like crab sticks as finely as possible before eating themㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ I even grind snacks into powderㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋand eat themㅋㅋㅋㅋ I crush candy into small pieces and eat it too,.. ha, my brain only works well at times like this
+Questions I’m taking my swelling-reducing herbal medicine regularly, so I feel like most of the swelling is gone, but to a serious degree, my face looks the same as before. If I don’t say what I had done, no one would knowㅠㅠ How much had your swelling gone down by day 9? ] Even when I touch my cheek area, it’s soft, so it feels like a lot of swelling has gone down..ㅠㅠ Will it go down more from here?
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