^You would need a left-handed hockey stick then? I haven't seen one of those before. I am wondering whether you mean ice or field hockey.
Soleiyu, have you had surgery on your nose? I think that would have to be up there with the most painful sorts of surgery to have as the nose is so sensitive.
I did the nose twice and it wasn't very painful at all tbh. The lips aren't painful either. The only really painful thing I did was a forehead lift. I would say, based on my experience, the only truly painful aestethic procedures would be facial lifts or surgery over a larger part of the body. Everything else just makes you soar for 3 days and after a weeks it's pretty much healed.
This thing with bandages for a month after rhinoplasty is a myth. You will most likely be able to go to work and appear normal after 7-10 days and you usually don't have bandages, just a little patch.
Also, this idea that people look "artificial" or like Jocelyn Wildenstein after a few surgeries is also a lie. I've had like 7-8 things done, three times in the lips, twice in the nose, forehead etc... and I still look natural, just in a better way. You get good results from doing repeated natural surgery, small procedures instead of forcefully changing everything fast the american/mexican/iranian way. I don't even have physical signs of surgery. I'm 100% healed and could go on and do 10 more surgeries at this rate without becoming like Michael Jackson. Modern, careful surgery doesn't give those exaggerated results, instead it builds nicely over time with repeated surgeries into a natural, smooth look.
The only downside is it takes a huge amount of money and years to achieve more dramatic results the nice way. A lot of people who do surgery don't have the patience so they end up trying to force the surgeon to turn them into Bride of Wildenstein immediately so they can go home to their kids and their middle class life and never have to spend that much again. Really good results from discrete surgery are built up over years of careful procedures.
People who expect dramatic results from just one procedure will, if the surgeon is good at least, be dissapointed because the body will heal completely and the results of surgery will be hard to notice. It's when you start repeating those small procedures over and over you start getting the customized appearence you want. So plastic surgery is in a way a lifestyle. A sort of continuing goal. This is typically percieved as something very negative, but in fact it's just like any other improvement interest, like cars, homes etc.
Waking up from anesthesia is more mentally painful than any of the physical pain afterwards.
