After having the nasal packing removed and feeling somewhat human again, I started looking in the mirror. The tape was so sticky, and the adhesive came off in such thick, sticky strands that I cut some of it off. My biggest concern was the cartilage that had been sitting prominently at the tip of my nose like a white Go stone. Once it came out, the skin looked a little wrinkled. Other areas were taut, as if filled from underneath, but the area where it came out looked about 98% like a deflated balloon. A slight feeling of weak, lifeless skin remains. The skin does seem thinner than before surgery—or is that just my imagination? The swelling at the tip already seems to have gone down; will it go down even more? The inside of my nostrils is extremely dry… so dry… The shape where the columella stitches were placed also looks quite unusual. I want to get this sticky splint off already T_T
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