As promised

So my face is starting to get back to normal now, the swelling is just about all gone, apart from the lower section of my right cheek, and the feeling is nearly all back too! And I managed to get a decent enough photograph of myself last night and I have put it together with a photo of myself from before my operation to get a before and after effect, and I can't stop looking at either of the photographs in complete shock over how different I look. Over the past 10 months I have looked back over photos and thought to myself, yes I do look different but actually placing the photos side by side I can now see exactly how different I look.

Showing the photos to my mum and dad today I got the same response and my dad then asked me 'well are you happy with the result?' and I wasn't very sure of my answer (to my parents shock). Its not that I don't like my new face, because I do I am very happy with the final result, and the fantastic job the surgeons have done but nearly one year on I still sit infront of the mirror every morning to do my hair and make up and think to myself 'that's not me!' its so strange looking into the mirror and its not you, or what I class as 'me,' looking back at you. It is a very strange feeling, something that sometimes makes me think back over the operation and wonder if I did the right thing going for the op, changing the way my face looks, should I have just left it the way it was? should I have messed with what I had?! But if anything it wasn't for vanity, it was under medical advise...

Anyway, what is done is done and I am certainly not going back through it all again to change it back! So here are the photographs for you to have a wee look, I am still swaying as to adding the photoghaphs from hours after the op incase I scare people...