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Originally Posted by sumowira
A lot of what looked like was going to be nasty scars have blended in better than anyone expected. A couple - especially the big one - are going to take some time to see how they will end up. And now I'm pretty wrinkly because I was terribly swollen and the skin stretched and hasn't bounced back yet.
My therapist is concerned with how I'm dealing with not looking "right" enough to blend in and be ignored, and all the new people in my life, especially invasive inquisitive strangers. One of my doctors is a former classmate who I haven't seen since high school. Can you imagine?
Good luck with your surgery. Because it's on your face I'm sure they will take extra care to avoid a scar, and in the meantime you could style your hair to cover it. Hopefully a quick surgery will be all it takes for you to be cured.
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My sutures are out now...17 of them on my L temple to the outer side of my L eye. The doc did take care, but there is a "tuck" at the corner of the eye that is quite deep. I should be glad that I won't die from cancer, but I recall my reaction to another surgery from years ago that left a noticeable scar on the inside corner of that same eye. I couldn't go to the grocery store w/o having an anxiety attack and leaving my cart full of food in the isle.
I'm trying to convince myself that the "tuck" has not "seasoned" yet, as medical jargon goes. And I guess I can always take out a loan to have corrective surgery. I'll see my therapist on Wednesday for the first time since the sutures were removed. I don't know if he can, or would, write a letter to the insurance company (Medicare and BCBS) indicating how this "tuck" is affecting me psychologically. I don't know that I want him to even consider that action unless I can't function in public. Gosh, I hope I don't start w/the anxiety attacks, again.