Day 4 – rhinoplasty recovery
Feeling a little more with it today. Yesterday was the first day following my surgery that I actually was up and about for most of the day. I also tried last night without taking the 30mg codeine before bed to help me sleep. Not the brightest idea in the world to be honest!
At around 1am I changed my mind entirely on that and took the pill. It is therefore true that when recovering from surgery you should just keep up with the pills. I wasn't in any significant amount of pain, I just couldn't settle properly.
My face looks pretty hilarious today. The swelling around my eyes has almost entirely gone, however it has moved down to the bottom of my cheeks and I look like a battered up chipmonk. My bruising is now very yellow which I also take as a good sign that I'm healing nicely.
In two days I go to get my packing removed which I'm really looking forward to - I'm assuming that I'm going to feel a lot more human when I haven't got a snorkel up my nose and huge bandages all over my face. We will see. 
I'm slightly concerned that because my nose is still oozing a little they may say I need to leave it in for a bit longer, but hopefully not. I'll be miffed if they do!
On a more personal note, yesterday was really nice because a few people came around to visit; my big brother, my little sister and her husband and their gorgeous daughter. Little things like that just make it a lot easier to deal with. Just goes to show, another thing they tell you about healing is to have plenty of support around and yesterday I stayed up and around til about 10pm, which was a huge improvement.
A little story from the anesthetists room - just before being knocked out the very nice people in the operating theatre were chatting with me a little and one of the ladies said, 'you look a little nervous'. I replied that it was 'my first time with general anesthetic'. Quick as a flash the anesthetist at the other side of the room piped up, 'yeah, mine too!'.
To much hilarity he proceeded to pump me full of anesthetic and said, 'say hello to Mr De Carpentier (the venerable surgeon)' ... and I replied 'hello Mr De Ca.......' and off I went.
