I am one of the Dr. De Silva’s patients.
I went in today for a rhinoplasty procedure.
And it’s just about 7 or 8 hours since I went in.
So, I went in this morning, and I had my procedure done.
And I suppose basically the first thing I went in,
I got to meet the anaesthetist and the 2 staff there,
the 2 nurses, and everyone was really nice.
Then he just explained the whole procedure to me
and went through it really well and carefully with me
and answered all my questions, so I did actually feel
really relaxed going in for it, he talked to me about the seda,
sedation because obviously I had never had that done before.
So I went in for the procedure, and the only thing
I can really remember from it is I think towards the very end,
when they were just finishing up I could slowly start
to remember a small bit of it, and I think I was just coming
more around to my senses a little bit.
But other than that I didn’t, I didn’t feel any discomfort
or any pain, and afterwards I actually felt fine.
I, I felt maybe like groggy for about like,
maybe 15, 20 minutes I was just in the recovery room.
And then after that, I felt okay and I felt fine to go home.
Obviously you can see, I do have swelling
which is really unusual, and I suppose it’s,
it’s for Dr. De Silva and his patients,
I don’t think it’s, this is expected,
but I know my blood pressure did go up a small bit
during the procedure and that’s obviously why.
It’s not actually really too bad on this side.
It’s just a small bit of discoloration,
but obviously here it is,
but I have my Arnica tablets and cream
and I’m just going to take everything that I’m supposed to,
and vitamin C and stuff like that, and hopefully
it will just like help the healing process
as quickly as possible, we’re just going to see,
So at the moment, I have no pain at all,
I actually feel fine.
I'm just a little bit tired but I think it’s because
I didn’t actually sleep that much last night;
I’ve taken obviously all my medication;
I haven’t taken any of the painkillers,
because I just didn’t feel the need to
but that’s just personal preference for me;
if I do feel like I need to I will,
but at the moment, I feel fine.
For me, looking back on today,
I think it was pretty straightforward obviously.
The, the bruising wouldn’t be 100% ideal,
but I know it will go down in time,
and I think over the next couple of days.
Hopefully it will get better, I am doing icepacks
the whole time as well, so that has helped with the swelling.
Yeah, so today was straightforward.
There’s, there’s nothing I would change.
There’s nothing I would do differently I think
if I went back and now, oh I should have done this,
or I should have had something else prepared.
I just obviously I'd everything like I had all my medication
and everything before I went in, and I just read through
all the leaflets that was given and made sure
I knew exactly what was happening on the day.
So yeah, I’ll come back again tomorrow.