Day 9 (1 day after cast removal)

Still feeling very depressed. No change in nose. Still looking like a fat sausage in the middle of my face. Mum told me to shower, do my hair and my make up in hope that this would make me feel better. And it did a little bit. But makeup and hair does not cover up the monstrority of my nose. Everyone keeps telling me to be patient. Been looking online at other people's experiences, and it has been fairly reassuring in the sense that there are a lot of people going through the same thing as me. And there have been a few accounts that I've read where there is talk of the swelling going down and changing the overall look of the nose. Have also read that most of the swelling should go down in 2/3 weeks but that the nose wont be completely healed till a year post op! Hoping and praying that what I'm seeing now isn't what it will look like in a couple of weeks. My next appointment with the doctor is in 6 weeks time, so I guess that is a sign in itself that this is how long he expects it to take for the swelling to go down, and for my nose to take its proper shape. Scared and worried that I may have made the biggest mistake of my life.