Hey, this is day 6 after my rhinoplasty operation.
The bruising has significantly reduced today,
so it's very very faint under the eyes.
I expect it will be nearly invisible by tomorrow.
The swelling is reducing at the normal rate it has been.
As for discomforts, I'm feeling more and more
throbbing sensations in the bridge of the nose,
which aren't too uncomfortable,
just a different sensation that I haven't really experienced.
The cast itself is almost feeling tight.
I'm not sure why.
On top of this, I will say I had a lot more
dried scab material pass through my nose today,
which has improved my comfort significantly.
The small pieces of scab are very irritating
and are very difficult to remove.
I wouldn't recommend attempting to do so with a cotton bud,
or anything else.
I've just been very regularly applying the saline solution,
and that's helped to increase the rate in which they come out,
which means I don't have the irritation.
And the irritation also led me to need to sneeze,
which was very daunting.
I did my best to sneeze through my mouth rather than my nose
but that could've been quite bad, I assume.
Nevertheless, other than that,
a lot of the effects I'm having now are just along
the idea of anxiety about how my nose currently looks,
and what it will look like.
One of the things I found very helpful is to
assess my pre-op photos,
because when I'm busy assessing and analyzing every small detail,
I can infer about my nose in its current state.
In reality I can look back to the things that I'm unhappy about,
and notice that they are actually not there anymore.
Whereas other concerns that I had,
such as has the length of my nose changed significantly?
I can quickly rule out as, well no not really
it might just feel like that,
because the relative width has decreased.
But again, I mean, I would emphasize
I don't think it's a very good thing that I'm so analytical about it,
but I found that if you are like me you can't help yourself,
then looking back on previous photos is relaxing to say the least,
especially in my case where the changes you wanted
were reasonably minor, or not so much minor,
but there were no obvious flaws.
It was an overall improvement to the aesthetic.
There wasn't that a particular hump that I was looking to remove,
or a particular crookedness that was very, nearly obvious.
So looking at my previous photos helped me to say,
"Well, yes that was not a great nose before
and I can this is going to mould into a better one."
So more updates on that today
since the healing process now is pretty consistent.
Every day the swelling reduces a little bit more.
Every day the bruising reduces a little bit more.
And every day the amount of scab material
that I can see reduces more.
My breathing improves.
All of those effects taken to account,
I'm finally getting in
slow but full breaths of that.
Hoping that will increase.
It's definitely not back to its original state pre-operation,
but there is still a lot of swelling,
and a lot of debris up there.
So I'm pretty comfortable about that.
I now have all of my sensations of smell restored,
which has made eating a lot more pleasurable as well.
Previously the nose was so congested with scab material, mucus,
and indeed the antibacterial ointments,
that I didn't have much of the sense of smell.
I was still very much pleased with the amount I could breathe.
I wasn't completely blocked with my nose,
but everyday now I'm noticing that how much worse it was the day before.
It's a very positive improvement,
and it's something that's quite good.
Apart from that there aren't really
any other additional updates today.
I continue to take my medication as prescribed.
I'm now down to just the antibiotics
and the prescribed vitamins, and so far it's going well.
I was due to have my cast removed tomorrow,
but that's now been delayed, into the day after.
So I have an additional day with the cast,
which isn't too much of a problem
but it means it should look even more the better when removed, one hopes.
Thank you very much, tune in tomorrow.