Day 11 - Tiny steps

Today

 Yesterday

The first day I returned home from surgery

There is not much difference the pictures for today and yesterday, except the red brusing is getting less, the edges are turning more yellow, and the color in the rest of my face seems to be returning.  But if I throw in the picture from the first day as a comparison, there is an enormous difference. The thing that I am noticing the most is at the eyelash line, there is still quite a bit of swelling.  

I think, until the bruising is all gone, the steps will be tiny from now on.  Dr. Kennedy said it would take two weeks and a couple of days.  I am 3 days away from it being two weeks--which, if you add the couple of days, I am really almost a full week away from having the bruising gone.  I'm glad I don't have any big plans.

I have noticed that if I use concealer on the red spots, it only tones it down. It doesn't conceal the dark, dark red bruising and the next day, the progression of the bruising going down is the same as the day before.