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[crystallinesnow]

Do skin clinics provide laser services to remove scars?
Would it be possible for me to do that before or after my jaw surgery? I just think I'd be swollen and I'm not sure if it's actually possible?

 

[thiefcat]

Karime said: ↑

Yay! Lets eat around there. Is the gingseng chicken soup good? I know what u mean about gastic problems. I feel like im getting an ulcer or something cuz my stomach has nothing to grind up. Im having a hard time chewing too n a hard time just closing my mouth, so eating has been a challenge.

Me too regarding ptosis correction. We will compare the doctors method. I kinda remembered it. I will msg u on the forum wen i leave the house.

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Karime.

I have never ate at restaurant at young dong hotel. Normally. I called and they ordered ginseng chicken fon outside. Yesterday version was nicer. To day I had for lunch and it was from another restaurant. I just called young dong restaurant and they don serve ginseng chicken. Just FYI.

 

[thiefcat]

Sorry I meant they serve it to my room directly.

 

[meliwaa]

http://kpsurgery.tumblr.com/tagged/liposuction

i just saw these transformations and my jaw dropped, but i'm still skeptical if they're real. can just liposuction really change the entire leg this much?

 

[ritchallthetime]

Karime said: ↑

Sorry, i just downloaded the pf app on my ipad. Wish i didnt cuz now i dont know how to post wout quoting someone else post, but since ritch asked. Here u go!

First bfore i forget, theres no Wifi in the recovery room.

Well i did it! N i cudnt have done it wout the support from u guys! Thank u so much for ur words of encouragement, your insights, knowledge, n research. Now it is my turn to return the favor.

I dont really know where to bgin. Friday nite: i fasted about 10 hrs b4 my surgery. I hid all my water bottles so that i wudnt accidentally take a swig. I packed some extra clothes since past forumers said they woke up freezing. (U don't need to here tho cuz first, my extra bag is still down on the 10th floor n their beds r heated so i was never cold. Id say just bring ur purse n pack ur sinecch in ur purse cuz mine is still downstairs �&#65533 as hard as i tried, it was a sleepless nite for me. O n like most surgeries, don't have any nail polish on.

Hospital: View-Dr Lee Sang Woo
Vline, sliding genio, chin implant removal n eyes-incisional dbl eyelid, ptosis w correction. Total 12.6mil

i checked in on the 10th floor, an hr before my surgery time. While in the lobby, i asked Ms Kim for a beauty consultants email address, but i think she thinks i keep asking for hers, so i still dont have one for u yet. The hard part is she's the only one I've heard speak English in the front, but she's an office worker, so her medical terminology in English is really really limited. I dont think she has too much direct contact w the doctors in her daily schedule, so if u do use her email from this forum, dont b worried if u that u mite not get recommendations on the type of surgery u will need or even pricing. Make it simple for her, just give her a cpl of dates u may want to visit. And know they do take walk-ins as i did the 2nd time i went there.

During this time, they had me change into their clothes, pack my stuff in a suitcase , wash my face n took more pictures. They went over medical consent forms n i met w the doctor again n this time asked btr questions. I know either in a pm, email or posting, i mentioned somewhere that i did alright wout translation services, but remember i left most if my medical questions in the lobby the first time, so i say bcuz of medical terminolgy n post op care, a translator wud b helpful, but i somehow managed wout one.

Dr Lee explained what he was going to do, how much he wud take off my sides n then explained while he wud make my eyes bigger, bcuz of my need for ptosis correction, my crease wud b smaller than id like. It made sense since i had read about ptosis revisions primarily for that reason.
Then we were off to the 11th floor. I got onto the gurney n they strapped me in. No catheter for my procedures, but i think they do for 2jaw. Never did find the nurse who spoke english ��. Then it began. Dr Lee marked my eyes. Cud smell the burning of my flesh from the laser. Ms Kim held my hand. I luv this lady. They told me to open n close my eyes several times. Then it was over. Next, the anesthesiologist came in said "bye bye c u later" n i was out cold. I liked that she added the "c u later" n not just said bye bye.☺total time 4 hrs.

i woke up in the recovery room. Ms Kim brought up my purse. Yay! my iPod! We chatted n laughed a bit. She said i looked younger cuz of the swelling. I look like that old lady on real housewives-miami! Dr Lee came by n said it went well. i asked him if he performed the surgery, but only bcuz there was another junior doctor in the operating room. He said yes. In my head I'm thinking, o no u didn't just ask him that. Ugh..so embarrassed.�� he told me it'd b safe to sleep it off, but of course i cudnt. In the last 6 days i've slept a total of 14 hrs.

i had to wait 7 hrs for my first sip of water. Im a total water whore, but i did it! Wudda been easier if i cud fall asleep. It is now 6am n my throat n lips r still dry. Bring ur lip balm-not that it has helped me much. Your throat will feel like u have a mild sore throat. A cpl of hrs after my surgery it felt as though my throat was tightening-closing up, like i was being choked, but the really sweet nurse said it was okay. I hope there was no translation issue there cuz that wudda been scary. We tried to communicate using her iPhone translation, but gave up. She even tried calling her boyfriend to help me. O how pathetic i m sometimes ��

For the next few hrs, if i laid down, i was fine, but if i got up i felt so nauseous. I did try n walk around throughout the nite, The nausea has finally subsided, as i can sit up to type this.
You will have this call button, but it rings through this entire floor. i didn't use it too much cuz i felt bad for the older man next door. I wanted him to get his rest. So id wait til the nurse made her rounds draining the blood from my pouch n asked her for things-mostly water. i still have an iv in me, but I'm not getting any fluids from it. i think it is just easier wen she pumps in the anti-swelling meds-which makes me nauseous. Pain-i opted out for any pain pump n pain meds cuz it makes me feel terribly wnauseous. Id rather b functional w pain, then miserably sick wout pain. On a scale of 1-10, id say my pain was a 6 but for only about 5 min after i initially woke up from surgery then quickly subsided to a 3, but if i breathe through n relax that area, it goes down to a 0. This is only in my chin area cuz of either the implant removal or the sliding genio. There was never any pain in my jawline nor eyes. I cud have a high tolerance for pain tho. Man, even the iv hurt more than my jaw n eyes. I havent eaten yet, not hungry tho.

My results: from what i can tell right now, my eyes look even, cudnt achieve the dolly look, but i think i will b happy w it.�� But, the entire nite i kept thinking i shudda done something w my cheekbones. I realized yesterday morning as i waited to have surgery, most of the b/a pics, the girls whether they had prominent cheekbones or not, got it done n even the pretty girls that i mentioned i saw in the lobby. For me, thats what i liked bout the b/a pics, but wen Dr Lee said i didn't need it, i thought i cud achieve that look wout it. But i looked in the mirror, nope, i cant �� In other clinics, i didn't really think that the zygoma operation made much of a difference, but Dr. Lee seems really good at it. He has done studies on zygoma operations n revisions which to me is more difficult. O well, now was not the time i guess.

Well as i was writing this, the nurse came n took out the iv n drains. K that was the most painful part n Just made me cringe for a sec. pulling out the drains was fine, but the stitches afterwards. Luckily it was quick. For me, it was more sore than my tongue piercing n tattoos. But like i said at least it was quick!

K, in all honesty my biggest fear was the GA. I even msgd snowstream w my husbands info just in case. They never asked me for an emergency contact at View. Guess they r that sure of their services ��

Made it back to my bnb. Got a free taxi ride home! Well started to get a slight headache n i think i got nauseous from the taxi ride or from no food, just had a protein shake tho. Hopefully that helps.

O they sent me home w a few cans of protein shake. 2 bottles of saline since i cant brush my teeth for a week. O n no washing my face either. not sure how to clean the eye guck now. Yuck! Sorry for the halitosis n my eye junk to all the ppl i will come in contact w. 2 ice packs, antibiotics, green pills n pain pills which i will just skip. This is y ud need a translator, i have no idea if the green pills r for my stomach bcuz of the painkillers or if i really need to take them.

Things to bring: lip balm, sunglasses, n scarf if u r doing facial contouring. O n im a big music fan so my ipod helped.

Cant wait to meet the other gals that ive been emailing n pming!

Sorry so long, but i think i covered everything �� plus marir said the longer the better lol

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Thats great insight, i'm glad its all gone so smoothly! Is it just relaxing and resting now or do you have other things planned?

 

[karime]

RitchAllTheTime said: ↑

Thats great insight, i'm glad its all gone so smoothly! Is it just relaxing and resting now or do you have other things planned?

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Thanks ritchallthetime, which btw, I luv ur forum name.

I hope that helps. O u can add to that I have super thick mucous phlegm in the back of my throat that makes sleeping even more difficult cuz it feels like I'm choking on it. Not sure from what tho. U have any insights as to y i have that, plz plz plz let me know. My nose was bleeding a bit, but I didn't get any nose surgery n my nose hasn't bled since I was like 8yo. So another weird thing. Just to know, so that if n when u go through w it, u will kinda know it is natural. Totally uncomfortable n gross, but natural. I hope...

Nope, nothing really planned, just hoping to c the city n meet as many ppl from the forum as I can cuz I don't wanna b cooped up in my place

Gonna meet up w Thiefcat n Ana_dancer for dinner now. Compare surgical notes w Thiefcat. Hehehe I feel bad for them, I m a site to look at right now.

 

[karime]

K Thiefcat n Ana_dancer,
Gonna go catch me a taxi. Hopefully they won't b too scared at me to stop
C ya in a bit

@Thiefcat, don't worry, we will figure out a place to eat. Just to warn u, I'm a super messy eater now. I really wish I had a bib.

 

[karime]

Hey I know there r quite a few of u flying in tomorrow.
Have a safe flight! Can't w8 to meet ya all!

 

[karime]

Thiefcat said: ↑

Sorry I meant they serve it to my room directly.

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Leaving now c ya at Highland soon! Hope cjchen sees this n joins us

 

[crystallinesnow]

Hey good luck you guys! Hope all your surgeries go successfully and you'll be able to heal fast. Keep us updated

 

[cjchen]

jessi88 said: ↑

aww good luck ))
Im in Korea,
so feel free to talk to me about
any questions !!

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Oh that's great to know!
I'm so happy there are other forumers here =)!
I really hope we can all meet up x)! keep in touch!

 

[cjchen]

Karime said: ↑

Leaving now c ya at Highland soon! Hope cjchen sees this n joins us

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Oh i missed you guys!
But hopefully we still have an opportunity to meet up later this week
(all bandaged up).
I hope you guys had fun =)

 

[karime]

cjchen said: ↑

Oh i missed you guys!
But hopefully we still have an opportunity to meet up later this week
(all bandaged up).
I hope you guys had fun =)

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O shux, but yes lets definitely try n meet!
Thiefcats eyes r looking amazingly beatiful n only 5 days post op, but she did have really pretty eyes to begin with. N ana-dancer is just adorably cute!

 

[babymode]

Karime said: ↑

O u r soo cute! sounds like u r gonna luv it! Its interesting how everyones account of the surgery is different. I guess just different methods. Happy healing girlie!

How r u cleaning ur eyes?

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Same to you! Ohhh theres much eye s*** especially every morning. On the second day when I woke up I was blind, all I could see was white. Then after blinking I managed to see a bit and I used q-tip to clean away the excess. What about you?

 

[jessi88]

Crystallinesnow said: ↑

Do skin clinics provide laser services to remove scars?
Would it be possible for me to do that before or after my jaw surgery? I just think I'd be swollen and I'm not sure if it's actually possible?

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Yes they do have laser service,
I think clinic preferrs you to do it after