Consultations 101

Happy 2016!

The first week and a half of this year has been rough, and I had this really whiny post saved in my drafts but whatever. Dwelling on that shit won't do any good for me gotta move on! go go go

Today I'm gonna talk about consultations and how to prepare for them, both online and in person. What should you ask? What shouldn't you ask? My opinions below~

hi

It's been a while!!

Decided to revive this blog since I started doing research again on heading back to Korea. Even though I've done it before the past few days (research) wise have been kinda overwhelming. The basics I already got of course but actually deciding on clinics has been stressful. The ones I'm most interested in don't have any English staff, there are ways to get around that without hiring a translator (don't do that btw), but it's annoying and just another thing to worry about. Hoping to go back sometime in April-May but...we'll see.

The clinic I did my previous surgeries at, LIFE, has closed down. Both of the head doctors there seem to have went back to Grand clinic. I still stand by my positive review of Dr. Kim but I'm not sure if I'd wanna go to Grand.

2 month update, future surgeries?

Happy Thanksgiving :)

Chin

Healing from a chin implant is extremely easy, or at least mine was. I never experienced any huge pain or anything. Actually feeling the implant in your chin is really weird though. Sometimes I would have these odd tingly sensations I mentioned in the previous post. Those went away after about six - seven weeks?

My chin isn't numb anymore but I can still ~feel~ something there, almost like my chin is a bit heavy. I only really notice it when I think about it, during everyday life the bottom of my face finally feels normal again for the most part.

I'm really really happy with the results. It looks natural and the shape is so much better! I would have liked the implant to be a tiny bit bigger tho!! Pretty sure I'm done with my chin, unless I wanna play around with minor chin fillers or something. Leaning towards no right now cause I don't wanna risk messing it up...we'll see

B&A pictures can be seen below

Surgery day + recovery

Finally!!!

When I arrived at LIFE I was greeted by a temporary English consultant. LIFE got her from another hospital so I would have someone with me the day of surgery and for my first checkup. I was given a locker for my bag and then got changed. After washing my face and disinfecting my mouth they took my pictures again. I then had one final consultation with Dr. Kim. We went over everything I wanted and he drew correction marks on my face.

The consultant then lead me into the surgery room and the nurses began preparing me for surgery. I actually don't even remember falling asleep...but I know I was at some point because I have no memory of them doing stuff to my nose. I think I woke up around half way through the surgery? Pretty sure I actually FELT them inserting the chin implant through my mouth, at one point that had to drug me up more! It wasn't that bad tho whatever pain I felt quickly went away. After what felt like an eternity I heard the English consultant talking to me. Surgery was finally over. She helped me up and walked me to the recovery room.

In-person consultations

Back from Korea!

Okay, so this trip had a really bad start. My plane got delayed so I had to try and switch all my consultations to the next day last minute. When I finally arrived in Korea the airline forgot to put my suitcase on the plane...so all I had was my carry on.

They delivered my suitcase to me the next day (at midnight) but still, I had to do the consultations in my dirty travel clothes!!

1) LIFE Plastic Surgery

As mentioned previously LIFE was my first choice. My appointment was at 10 but I got lost (a taxi driver actually dropped me off at the wrong spot) I should have just used the subway from the beginning, anyway I finally reached but just my luck their English consultant isn't there anymore. Since my appointment got delayed, and it wasn't guaranteed I would make it to this one either, they didn't have time to find a temporary consultant for me.