face lift on april 13!!

[superrmaren]

april 13th...a friday! good thing i'm not superstitious!

anyway, i'm having a little face lift to bring up my mouth a bit, make things more symmetrical, open my nose to make breathing easier.
i am so excited for this procedure! a bit nervous, but it's out-patient, i love my doctor and the hospital (dr. boahene at johns hopkins) it should be nothing compared to AN surgery but i'm still scared!

i wish this was erasing the facial paralysis rather than just making me look a little better. the plastic surgeon wants to wait 1 to 1 1/2 years for the facial nerve to come back before any re-animation surgery.  it has been about 7 1/2 months and feels like i've looked like an idiot forever! 

anybody else have a face lift or similar surgery?  (related to AN or not!)  i could just use a little pep-talk, see how things went, and a little advice!

xox

[er]

Hi
I have not had a face lift but I was looking at a picture of myself 3 months after surgery and I looked like a piece of clay that some one had just took one side of my face and pulled it down . I am glad I don't look like that any more but that picture comes back to life when I talk or smile. My nerves are slowly coming back but it will be 2 years on the 28th of this month.

Good luck you have more courage then I do
Eve

[nancyann]

Eve:  yep, that's a good descrition of what we look like with the facial paralysis...
Supermaren:  hope it lifts your spirits as well as your face!!! 
                   I know, the waiting it out to see if the nerve is going to come back is a PIA, but it has to be done !
                   I feel like all us facial paralysis guys are in a boat, & as the nerve regenerates (from just waiting or having the 12/7 jump)
                   one by one each person then gets out of the boat. So at least we have company !!!!(crazy, huh?)
                   Wishing you all the best, Nancy
             
                   

[Jeanlea]

Supermaren,

Good luck with your facelift.  Hope it makes you feel better.  I've been waiting for 18 months now.  I do have some movement.  It's coming back very slowly.  It would make waiting easier if I knew that it was all going to come back.  I always keep wondering, "Is this going to be it?"  If I don't move my face I've gotten to the point where I look fairly normal.  Just can't look normal if I talk or smile or laugh.  I don't know if the facial numbness has gotten any better. 

Okay, I am watching Grey's Anatomy.  There's a woman on there whose whole body is paralyzed except for her face and hands.  Guess I can live with the facial paralysis. 

Synchronicity?  Guess I needed to think about that right now.

Jean

[superrmaren]

Okay, I am watching Grey's Anatomy.  There's a woman on there whose whole body is paralyzed except for her face and hands.  Guess I can live with the facial paralysis. 

Jean

i watched that, too. it could always be worse!
xox