So I booked a consultation and asked the husband to come with me. He's a surgeon so I trust his opinion and also, he isn't entirely happy about me cutting up my nose so I thought it might put his mind at ease. I know he wouldn't let me go ahead with the surgery if he wasn't confident for my choice in surgeon so I was perfectly prepared for him to veto it.
I had to pay a fee up-front for the consultation and wait for a couple of weeks until the surgeon was next in the country and in that two weeks I became a little obsessed with researching rhinoplasty on the internet!
On the day we turned up and I was a little worried that all the other patients in the waiting room looked scarily similar to each other. My husband assured me that this was just typical of the region ( we live in the UAE) and that those women had asked to look like that so I shouldn't worry that he was just churning out clones!
I had a load of questions in my head to ask and particularly wanted to know if he could also help with my irritating snoring habit!
The consultation itself was about 30 minutes, the surgeon asked me why I wanted the surgery and what I disliked about my nose. I then stood in front of a mirror and he pointed out what was technically wrong with the profile of my nose... And it was exactly what I thought so I was relieved that we were on the same page. He told me about the options for open and closed rhinoplasty and I was dead set on closed but he explained that he couldn't close up my "nose cleavage" with closed so I could think about it and change my mind later if I needed to, but he was confident he could get a good result from closed rhinoplasty if that is what I preferred.
When I asked about my snoring he popped my up on the bed and stuck some metal instructs up my nose to check out what was going on inside. He confirmed that I had large turbinates. These fill up with blood when I lay my head back which obstructs my airways and cause me to snore. He also said he could easily reduce these and help my snoring issue. Woo hoo!
My husband didn't say much and he didn't let on that he was a surgeon too, but after the consultation he said he was happy for me to go ahead as the guy knew what he was talking about. Phew! My husband can be a bit pig-headed at times and I was worried bed use the opportunity to stop me having it done altogether.
So that was it, mind made up, I just needed to book the time off work and mentally prepare myself.....
A couple of weeks later I confirmed my holiday with work and booked the surgery..... Cue more furious research!
Having thought hard about my "nose cleavage" and the look that I want for my new nose I have decided to go for open rhinoplasty. I think it will give a better result and I'd hate to regret not having the cartilage gap closed and possibly have to have another op at a later date.
So I'm signed up, ready to go and 4 weeks to wait. Eeeeeeek! So excited 😁😝😀
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