Black eyes - reprised...

I have never had a cosmetic surgery and I hope I never have to have it! To me, the risk and the cost is way to much for just the sake of vanity. Now granted there are some people who have been in accidents and those types should indeed get plastic surgery but besides that I am no fan! No one is sticking a knife to my noise without good reason! I do feel bad for your friend though. Not being able to breath must be awful! I also imagine that three surgeries in one summer is no picnic either.

If I ever did it, it'd be strictly cosmetic. I've always despised my stubby, nubby little nose! It's an unfortunate cross of my mother's & father's nose...but mostly Dad's. As to your roomie--OWWWW!? Poor thing!!! Oh, & Elic, how many times, as editors, have we scolded writers for leaving off the final E in breathe? Shame, shame! I guess we need to do another zine, just to get you back into practice, eh, what? Maggiepie "Unquestionably! No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life." ~ Albert Einstein's answer to the query, "Do you believe Jesus was a real, historic figure?"

I am amazingly surgery free for my age. Some of it has to do with no insurance, but not really. I have had three surgeries in my life. I know, the black eyes are part of the procedure, and I sure hope she breathes easier when she is healed. I can picture them pulling those eyelids up.

not really unless you count a tooth abcess that spread into my nasal cavity. still haven't regained some of my sense of smell.but when cleaning catboxes,that's an occasional plus

Hi ya ElicBxn The only surgery I have ever had is to remove my tonsils and pollops from my throat. So, no I have not had surgery of any description on my nose. I have had my nose peireced a couple of times and the healing of that was bad enough, so I can imagine that your roommate is in quite a lot of pain even though her eyes are black, I think that is the least of her pain! Poor thing

I have not and hopefully will not sometime soon. I am going to a specialist as I am getting daily headaches and migraines. It is to the point that something is terribly wrong. I do wonder if it is due to my sinuses as I was told once years ago. Hopefully nothing major but the pain is too severe that I am very worried something is wrong.

Well, I have never had them have to do any type of surgery around or to the nose area. The closest I came was when 2 yrs. ago they did surgery on my eyes and did implants because of having cataracts. For me that was pain enough.

heck NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have never had that done to me either. My mom had it done though and we thought my husband was going to need it also but he didn't, thank God.

Never, it sounds terrible. I broke my nose once and I was aware of it constantly until it was healed.

I hope she is feeling better. No, thank heavens i have never had surgery on my nose & hope i don't.

Was the reason she couldn't breathe through her nose that it was packed with surgical gauze?

so whats afrin? guess i'll look that up. poor roomie. ive never had that surgery but ive heard its terribley painful. its going to be rough a long time i bet. so sorry. but maybe she will breath better now.

ElicBxn, Haha, I guess I wouldn't mind having black eyes after surgery since I already have them! But that's pretty cool, your eyes changing color after surgery. I'd want a really cool color, like blue or green eyes. I've heard people have purple eyes, and that'd be pretty cool too! I've never had a medically necessary nose job, and hope I never will. Nose jobs sound painful. For a while, when I was younger, I wanted to get my nose slimmed down. I have a pretty wide nose, and would love for it to be more narrow and defined. But I'm over that, and I've accepted who I am. So yay, fun story. Happy mylotting!

hi elicbxn oh I just avoided having to have a medically necessary nose job done when I had my infamous fall on the tile floor by' our elevator. I smacked down face down , broke my nose and a small bone above my right eye. I was x rayed from head to foot and had only a broken nose and the one nurse said I would be referred to an ent man for that but when I was admitted to the rehab hospital for my twisted right knee the doctor said no it was a simple fracture and no surgery was needed,. but oh my my eyes were black as coal and at first my fellow patients all thought i had been in a car accident,. oddly that nose fracture was not painful but the small break above my right eye hurt but oh my right knee,it was so painful and yet no broken bones .I was a Four Way nose spray addict for years too til my son insisted I quit using the stuff and go see an ent doctor who helped me to get unaddicted and I learned I had allergies to dust and dust mites so take benadryl at ni ght so I can sleep without my nose being all stuffy.

Nope I never had a nose job, my nose and everything on my face are all natural, but I did have surgery as a teen Not for vanity, but a very necessary procedure done won't go into detail but the sugery was really painful and stressful but it did improve my life a bit but nothing else done though.

I have and it was not a nice experience! I had a deviated septum for years from a knock I received on my nose when I was a young child and my parents as per usual did not bother to have it looked at. I put up with it for a long time and sleeping was the most difficult thing because I could not breathe properly if I lay on the wrong side. One day I decided I had enough and wouldn’t mind some time off work so I saw a specialist who recommended surgery and two weeks at home. “Wow, a fortnight off!” I thought, “Great!” All I can say is that I woke up after the operation feeling like a wanted to throw up and not being able to breathe because my nose was packed with gauze. Forty eight hours later and another sleepless night the doctor showed up to ‘unpack’ my nose using rather large tweezers. To say that I saw stars is an understatement! That is without mentioning frequent nose bleeds for the next couple of weeks. Yeah, great time off, indeed! Did I mention the black eyes and bruised cheek?