# Nosejob, the pictures. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 23, 2000, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947 "2000-10-23T05:35:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947/1 "2000-10-23T05:35:40Z")
Disclaimer: I look like hell. If you are at all squeamish, do NOT look at the site OR read the rest of this post. Also, in the last picture, my nose still loooks crooked, but the cartiledge is actually straight down the middle of my face. The surgeon really had to manhandle it to get it over so there is still serious swelling on that side of my nose. I’ve been told that it takes at least 6 months to see the final results, so maybe I’ll update the pictures again later. I’m feeling pretty good, no longer taking pain-killers, but still have some bruising. The underside of my nose is numb, can’t feel a thing. I have big old crusty scabs in my nostrils, so I’m still a mouth-breather for the time being. Enjoy! [http://my.treeway.com/sueduhnym/Nosejob\_Shots.htm?972278803](http://my.treeway.com/sueduhnym/Nosejob_Shots.htm?972278803) PS Thanks for the get-well card Zette, it really brightened my day! ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947/2 "2000-10-23T05:38:56Z")
Oh and there’s three pages of pics but for some reason you can’t access #2 and #3 unless you’re at the first nosejob page. I don’t care enough to try and fix it. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947/3 "2000-10-23T06:05:29Z")
Lovely as always. Good luck with keeping it that way:) ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947/4 "2000-10-23T06:15:10Z")
You’re looking good to me, Sue. I look forward to seeing how you look in a few short weeks, or months. Thank you for sharing this with all of us. I’ve been trying to read and follow your journey on this, just got very busy and kept forgetting to post to it. Hope all the bruising goes away soon for you. {{{{{{Sue Duhnym}}}}}} 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947/5 "2000-10-23T06:18:35Z")
Wow, it looks like you have gone through a lot. I will keep my fingers crossed that you get the results you want. Thanks for posting these. I had always heard that you get black eyes after a nosejob and now I see why. ---
**Author:** ![ChromiumGrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@ChromiumGrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChromiumGrin)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947/6 "2000-10-23T06:37:01Z")
Much pain? It looks like you won (or lost) one heck of a bar fight. It looks painful to me. Was it costly? My elegant schnozola has been flattened a few times and I’ve been considering getting it adjusted. However, I have this thing about long needles shoved up my nose, which is what the first doctor after the first encounter of my nose to someone’s fist wanted to do to numb it so he could straighten it in ER. I fled. (Why do ERs, when you arrive in pain, insist on inflicting more pain on you as a cure?) ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947/7 "2000-10-23T13:39:45Z")
i just kept flipping back and forth between before and after pics. back and forth, back and forth. I really like what they did for you. Although te bruising looks atrocious and painful. hese pics remind me of the old joke about someone’s scab collection. eeek! ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947/8 "2000-10-23T13:43:50Z")
i just kept flipping back and forth between before and after pics. back and forth, back and forth. I really like what they did for you. Although te bruising looks atrocious and painful. hese pics remind me of the old joke about someone’s scab collection. eeek! ---
**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947/9 "2000-10-23T13:50:17Z")
[Jackie Gleason Voice] Hum-ana, hum-ana, hum-ana! [/Jackie Gleason Voice] Looking good, dear! (Is it jut me, or does anyone else think she looks like Gillian Anderson in those pictures?) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947/10 "2000-10-23T14:06:51Z")
Count me in on that, jesuslynch. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947/11 "2000-10-23T14:14:39Z")
She kinda looks like Gillian Anderson, but with a much better looking nose 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947/12 "2000-10-23T14:44:57Z")
Wow… days 1-3 look really painful! I hope it wasn’t too terrible. The end result looks great though. ---
**Author:** ![StrTrkr777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@StrTrkr777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrTrkr777)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947/13 "2000-10-23T17:35:51Z")
No offense, the finished product looks good, but I gotta ask, why have it done? All the pictures I have seen of you look great as you were. I do not know if there was any breathing problems or any such thing (as I have shamefully not read previous threads) but from a purely physical standpoint you looked great before. Well, best of luck to you and if you for any reason decide one day to get breast enhancements feel free to post pre and post op pictures. BTW, that goes for the rest of the female dopers out there. 😉 Jeffery ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947/14 "2000-10-23T17:37:39Z")
Sue, I’m glad the surgery went ok and you’re doing well. You look great…again. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947/15 "2000-10-23T18:00:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ChromiumGrin \* > Much pain?..Was it costly?.. It was about $6000, in Michigan. The surgeon I used is a friend (and co-worker) of my Mother’s. Pain, not really…but I was taking Vicodin every 3 hours in a pre-emptive strike. I’m off the painkillers now and there is a little tenderness but it is completely bearable. ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947/16 "2000-10-23T18:17:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jesuslynch \* > (Is it jut me, or does anyone else think she looks like Gillian Anderson in those pictures?) I’ve been told that before, but I just don’t see it. Thanks though! I do consider it a compliment. ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947/17 "2000-10-23T18:37:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by StrTrkr777 \* > No offense, the finished product looks good, but I gotta ask, why have it done? Well, it was _really_ crooked, I had a deviated septum, I could only breathe out of one nostril and I had a bump. > [@](#): > > Well, best of luck to you and if you for any reason decide one day to get breast enhancements feel free to post pre and post op pictures. Sorry, I have enough up top…I could offer you some close-up of my next bikini wax though. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947/18 "2000-10-23T20:55:27Z")
Lookin’ good, Sue! I’ve had 2 _serious_ nose-breaking accidents (a softball when I was 14 and a fist last summer) so I’ve had to have two major reconstructive rhinoplasties. I don’t envy you in those first few post-op days! Ugh. I especially hated the mouth breathing. Thank heavens for Vicodin and ice. Did you have splints inside? I remember after the first surgery, they pulled those splints out my nostrils and I couldn’t believe how LONG they were! They must have been touching my brain. 🙂 This last time, I had to get back to work right away so I still had the cast and the black eyes…people in the building were asking my co-workers what happened to me but nobody would say anything to me directly. Turns out someone started a rumour that my then-fiance (now hubby) had beat me up and my wedding was canceled! Anyway, the results look great. Post us some pictures when all the swelling and bruising is gone. ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947/19 "2000-10-23T21:22:34Z")
So Sue, ummmmm, you got the leftovers still? I need nose parts for the synthetic doper I am creating min my basement. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947/20 "2000-10-23T21:56:44Z")
Gee, Sue, glad to see Tyson didn’t bite a chunk of your ear off, too. Hope you’re feeling better and can honk through the new schnozz soon. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nosejob-the-pictures/37947.md?page=2)