6 weeks looking more Shabby than Chic

Well it's not totally sorted yet, but I have to say I am pleased with it.  There is still a small scab at the end, and until all the scabbing is gone I'm not risking wearing make-up - I don't know whether it is possible but I have a horror of ending up with black scarring ;-).  (I stabbed my leg with a pencil when I was a kid and I still have that black mark on my leg over 40 years on!).
I went back to work, and have to say that was a very self conscious and slightly anxious day.  People's reactions are very interesting, they range from 'you can hardly see anything' to 'it's better than your old nose' (;-).  I am amazed at how quickly the scarring that has healed is fading, and I can see that it really won;t be long before I could feasibly cover it up with make-up - though I am strangely proud of it and the amazing skill that surgeon did.  I don't dislike scars so that doesn't worry me unduly.  As the feeling is slowly coming back in parts there are little jabs, and sometimes a feeling of crawling ants inside, but overall, I wish I had realised before that this was going to be the extent of it, and possibly even if I had had to have had a skin graft from my forehead, it would have healed really well as well.  I have also realised that the man I love loves for me who I am and really doesn't seem to care one jot what I look like - that is a wonderful thing to know.
I will have to sort out the date thing here, I wanted it to start at the top at the beginning and end with the final nose but it's all gone wrong.  Will come back to that at some point.

Slow Going - Still Giving Spot the Dog a Run for his Money

18 days after 

18 days after

Well it's not going as fast as it was.  When the dressings first came off it looked like it was going to heal in double quick time, but this end bit seems to have stopped in it's tracks a bit.  I suppose it descends on how deep it is underneath.  Whether or not it was going septic I have no idea, I was given antibiotic cream but that seems to make it worse and also made the scabbing start to crack so after a phone call to the hospital I have now stopped it, back to vaseline.  Still seems a bit pussey to me though.  So these pictures are  18 days after.  Not so long I suppose.  The funny thing is that the long scars down the side which seemed so pale to start seem to be getting darker red now, or maybe it's just my imagination.  I do know for a fact now that I am horribly vain, and have hardly left the house, and when I do it's with Alan by my side!  Back to see the doctor on Monday.

Update: (for Donna). 2014 and you can hardly tell it's there. There is a white scar, but that's getting smaller. Remember my nose was not straight to start with anyway. On my bad days I feel it looks a bit mangled, but when I am completely honest with myself I know that absolutely no-one notices. If I feel the need, I use a cover stick over the scar, but that happens less and less, and to be honest I just feel it is part of who I am.
I avoid being out in the sun now, and on really sunny days will even take an umbrella to sit under for the midday sun. I will sit and feel the sun on my face late in the afternoon. I have got totally used to the pale and interesting English look rather than trying to keep a tanned look with make-up or whatever, my skin is what it is. Yes I loved being tanned (albeit with fake and make up) but I've just given that up. Oh yes the mangled bit is also because in January I went back thinking it had come back again, they took another biopsy, but it turned out fine, but that is yet another scar on scar on scar, my poor little nose has had more operations and stitches on it than the rest of my body put together. (stitches at 16 for a non heeling spot / two nose straightening jobs, biopsy stitches / mohs / another biopsy = pretty mangled little area on face - but as you can see - it really doesn't show). MOHS surgery is amazing, I am incredibly thankful to all concerned (except stupid original doctor who I refuse to deal with anymore), for what I am sure 40 years ago would have been a complete mess. Donna - it's absolutely fine, seems huge at the time but as they always say about everything - give it time).