Hey, so it’s day 5 of rhinoplasty recovery.
As you can see today I’ve washed my hair.
I feel fresh and clean.
And the thing was it was quite a difficult process.
I think my advice for future patients
because they recommend day 5 you should wash your hair only,
and I had tried to do it on my own,
I wasn’t very successful.
I think the only reason is,
is because if you have quite long hair like I do and quite heavy,
I had to tip my head back and then put the shower on top.
Obviously like scrubbing your hair like this
was moving my entire face, and it also felt really heavy
when I was showering it, and then leaning my head back,
so it was quite heavy pulling my head back
and then obviously it would pull my nose a little,
a strange feeling, but it would,
it was starting to pull my nose a little bit.
I think I would have been better with a bit of help
maybe from if you have family there to just sit on a chair
and maybe lean your head against the sink instead
because I did it in the bath, and ooh had to stop halfway.
I just scrubbed it a little bit on both sides
and then just washed it out,
because it was just too much for me.
I think it was a little bit early for me to wash my hair.
Maybe I’ll try again in the next couple of days,
I might be a bit more successful.
But you do feel a lot more fresh.
Still absolutely no bruising.
I’m on my last days of my antibiotics
and my other medication too,
and I’m gonna continue taking the vitamin C tablets
which helps the healing and continue taking
I think it’s the Arnica for the bruising and swelling,
I think that’s helped me.
So just to maintain that I don’t think there’s gonna be
more bruising anymore after day 5,
but carry on taking those.
Again not much change really.
Just what I did want to speak about is
if I was to change anything in terms of my recovery,
I would advise all patients to get the diazepam.
Dr. De Silva does a very clear prescription
before the surgery as to what medications should be taken
and can be taken on your own choice.
I actually crossed out the diazepam
when I went to the pharmacy
which is it’s just a tablet to help you calm down
and help you sleep I think.
I’m not really used to taking tablets and stuff
so I crossed that out.
And I didn’t really think about my recovery too much,
I just thought I don’t wanna take any medication.
But I think for the first day, the second day
and the third day you are gonna have sleepless nights
and you know because of the leaking the first day
and like a bit of discomfort
I think diazepam would have really helped me
and it could help like future patients as well.
And having a good night rest is
a massive factor in the healing process.
It helps you heal, and it helps you rest and relax.
So I think for future patients its best to have the diazepam
if you can’t sleep especially for the first night.
Not much change, apart from my stitches,
they last night I woke up only once
and I had a good 10 hour sleep which is good.
The stitches are starting to itch a little bit.
But I think that was quite normal
because itching is a sign of healing,
and I also feel like, I feel like my nose is like dripping
or like bubbling or something inside.
And I really feel like blowing it but there’s nothing there.
I think it’s just a bit of dry blood.
But as you can see I’ve taken most of the blood out
from my nose.
There's absolutely nothing there right now.
Just a little bit on the side here
which I can’t seem to get off but quite itchy down here.
I’m still applying the antibiotic cream on the stitches.
But the stitch are quite tight and in place
and no problems at all with that.
Absolutely no leakage and yeah that’s about it.
Apart from the hair wash nothing else today,
I’ve been eating okay.
I didn’t actually go out of the house today,
I stayed in and just took a bit rest.
I did try cooking today,
but I think my advice on that would be to just take that slowly as well
because picking up pots and pans and trying to drain rice
and stuff like that.
I know it seems like a minor process
but once you’ve had surgery you realize how much strain
it actually puts on your body.
So yeah, just to be careful on that.
Just show you from the side again just looking better I think.
I can see a change again today, less swelling.
I feel like it’s getting like smaller every day
and it’s just right for me, it’s exactly how I wanted it.
I’m just like really desperate now to get my cast off
and take the stitches out and see what it looks like.
It’s really frustrating because I just wanna pick it up
and lift it off and see my new nose,
but it’s all about patience.
So yeah I can’t wait to see Dr. De Silva again.
I should be seeing him on Friday hopefully,
that would be the 9th day.
I think normally they say stitches can stay in
up to about 2 weeks,
but I think Dr. De Silva likes to take it out within 7 to 9 days.
So that there's less scaring.
I don’t think I will have any scaring anyway
because I don’t have anything at the moment either.
And if I did then just to cover it with a bit of makeup.
But I’ll update you all on that on Friday
and yeah nothing else to say really.
I’ll post a video again tomorrow which will be day 6.
Thanks guys, bye.