Hey guys.
So I am post-op day 3 now.
As you can see I’ve not got my drip pad on anymore,
because I’m not having much leakage.
I do use the drip pad at night
Only because when I’m putting the antibiotic cream,
it sort of it crossed the dry blood,
and then it sort of makes it like lubricate,
like lubricates it and it leaks.
But no like fresh blood and no trickles of blood today
which is good.
I think because I’m resting it’s helped a lot.
I’d like to, I know it looks a bit gruesome over here
but that is just dry blood, it’s just a bit of a tape
that’s held that together.
But as you can see from my first video my nostrils have lifted,
which I’m really happy about.
You can actually see my upper lip
which before I don’t think you could.
And when I look on the side the swelling is getting less,
and if you could see just a little bit of dry blood
under the nostrils, but the stitches are very neat.
The stitches aren’t so tender today either which is good.
I also wanted to show a picture from the side,
before just if this helps
because it really does show how much I hated my nose before.
So I don’t know whether it’s clear or not but there we are,
very bumpy, quite long, it’s got a huge dorsal hump,
but now it seems like it’s so straight from the sides,
it’s lifted and I just feel a bit more feminine.
Not much change from yesterday again.
Also with my bruising, absolutely no bruising,
in fact it’s gone down from yesterday.
Dr. De Silva always came across so gentle,
and calm in all of his approaches.
So for him to not cause me any bruising
it just made me realize again that he is absolutely amazing,
so gentle and he must have been really kind to me.
I don’t have any other symptoms or pain and discomfort.
I just felt really congested in the morning.
I think that we can start using the,
let me just show you, the nasal spray?
I think Dr. De Silva gave a really clear
prescription as to what I can and can’t use.
I can start using this after the 3rd day.
So it’s the 3rd day today so I might just wait
until tomorrow and start using this
so I can breathe a bit better.
I can breathe perfectly fine out of this nostril,
this nostril I’m starting to breathe out of it a little bit.
But there is a lot of dry blood as you can see.
Sorry I know this is not nice
but just a lot of dry blood which is hard to take off.
I’ve been taking these,
the Arnica tablets have been really good, the 30c ones.
They’re herbal medication, so you can’t touch them,
they have to just go straight into your mouth.
The bruising up here completely gone.
I had a bit of swelling up here, but no swelling any more.
I just feel fine in myself.
I just feel like the true sort of way to describe it
is just recovering from a really bad cold
and I just feel like I’m getting better.
I thought I should talk to you about
how long I have actually taken off work,
so I’ve taken off 2 weeks.
Dr. De Silva sort of recommends that 2 weeks
is enough for a full recovery which is good.
I also can start resuming to my most of activities
after about 7 to 8 days, not too much exercising either,
because it’s still quite obviously tender
and getting itself into place.
As opposed to driving you can drive.
I slept much better last night as well
maybe because I really just woke up
and started breathing through my nose again.
I think maybe tomorrow I would like to get out
of the house a little bit to get a bit of fresh air.
I think you are allowed to do this, it depends on yourself.
I mean some people feel a bit embarrassed
to go out with a cast on
but I really need to walk or something.
I started to have a bit more like solids foods now as well
because it doesn’t hurt so much when I’m chewing
which is a good thing.
And yeah, not much change at all,
just getting better and I’ll update you all tomorrow.
Thanks guys.
Bye.