50-Year-Old's Facelift Recovery Goes Wrong 😨

John Black Smith

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00:00I'm trying to be incredibly brave and trust this process.

00:04Some days you feel like you've made a mistake.

00:07I am scheduled to have my facelift done on Monday.

00:11A lot of people are going to say, well, you don't need it done.

00:13But like, this is the best time to do it.

00:15I'm turning 50.

00:16I'm doing this for me, for my birthday.

00:18And I am having done an upper and lower eyelid left and neck lift.

00:24Very turkey, gobble, gobble-ish.

00:26I'm having my cheeks and my jowls done.

00:29He's going to put some fat transfer here.

00:32Maybe a little bit of sculpting.

00:34She was really excited to get the procedure done.

00:37So we did it.

00:39We did the damn thing.

00:40I was awake during the whole procedure, pretty much.

00:43And I could remember some sensations.

00:45It was kind of like I was in and out, a little groggy.

00:48So we'll see what I look like tomorrow.

00:51The lower incisions are amazing.

00:55You can barely see them.

00:58So I'm excited to see what my face will look like when the bandages come off on Wednesday.

01:03I'm just taking some tramadol.

01:05He can give me anything stronger than that.

01:07There are lots of parts of my face that are numb, especially my eyes.

01:11So I have to be very careful.

01:12And I'm dabbing them with that fluid that's coming out.

01:16I told him what the desired effect that I wanted, and then he did his magic.

01:20Just told him what I wanted, and he was like, okay, sign here.

01:23Here's the price.

01:24The next day, she got the bandages taken off.

01:27He said I could come home and shower, which I did.

01:29Too sweet.

01:30Feeling like this is good.

01:32Feeling like he said my bruising is really good.

01:34I still have my stitches in my eyes, which will come out a week from today.

01:39I used to have like these little freckles here, but they're up here now.

01:43So it was just for reference to how far he moved things up there.

01:46Things were going smoothly until a few days later.

01:50What seemed like it was going to be a simple recovery became much, much more complicated.

01:55Incredibly brave.

01:56Incredibly stupid.

01:58Incredibly brave.

01:59To go through this procedure by myself.

02:01Incredibly stupid.

02:02To mess with my face.

02:04Incredibly brave.

02:06I post this whole journey online.

02:09Incredibly stupid.

02:11To open myself up to this much criticism.

02:13Even though I see improvements, I still feel like, what have I done sometimes?

02:17Some days you feel like you've made a mistake, and you just try to be brave.

02:22And then other times I'm feeling like, I guess not, just my necklace.

02:26Incredibly brave or incredibly stupid.

02:29You tell me.

02:30She continued to document her recovery online as she went through some of the toughest days imaginable.

02:36Yesterday was one of the hardest days that I've had.

02:40Physically, emotionally, mentally, I was exhausted.

02:43I was questioning everything.

02:45But then something beautiful happened.

02:47And so many of you reached out with kindness and encouragement, compassion.

02:52It reminded me that even though social media can be dark and unjudgmental sometimes,

02:57you can also be extraordinarily human.

02:59And I needed that.

03:01I need that.

03:03I want to say thank you.

03:07Than a second time.

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