i, Guys! I am just back from 9 days trip to Kaohsiung to do my nose with Dr. Hsu. I am so relieved that I am finally done with it. While I am happy with the result so far, I dont think I will do this kind of lonely and secretive trip again.
I had my consultation with Dr. Hsu on Sunday, then went ahead with the surgery on Monday. As what people said, Dr. Hsu is a very nice doctor. During the whole process, I never met him in such a grumpy mood (I met him 5 times in different timing, and on my stitch removal day he needs to open his clinic 30 mins earlier to match with my flight timing) and what I love about him is his punctuality. You can also ask him anything and he will give u his honest opinions. He wont try to rip off your money. I was initially prepared with rib cartilage rhinoplasty, but after he told me the natural result that I wanted will be enough with ear cartilage then I did ear cartilage rhino instead. He is a figure that you can trust, and it is truly important if u decide to alter part of ur body.
On the day of surgery I need to be in the hospital before 9.30 am to do check up (if u do ear cartilage then u dont need to do x-ray). The surgery itself was scheduled on 12.30 pm. I wasnt allowed to eat anything after 2 am on that day and only can drink 1-2 zip of water before 9.30 am (I heard that too much water can cause nausea due to anaesthetic). I was under LA with full sedation (I was completely asleep during operation, eventhough the nurses told me that I MIGHT be awaken in the middle of operation – Thank, God!! -_- ) I was awake by 4.30 pm and got myself a few snaps with my mobile phone due to curiousity (haha) then felt so tired so I tried to go back to sleep but the sleep wasnt peaceful coz the nurses kept coming in and out to check my condition. My body was shaken coz I felt so cold (I believe because of the medicine inside IV drip) and I experienced blackouts twice. Once when I was peeing in the bathroom (need 4 nurses and 1 doctor to make sure I am fine) and the other one when I was by myself trying to climb back up to my bed. I always have low blood pressure and I guess that was why. During my stay in the hospital, I was on my lowest point. I never been hospitalised before nor did a surgery, and eventhough I can count myself strong enough to face needles and blood test (didnt really have problems with injections and IV drips in the hospital), it is more to moral breakdown coz I didnt tell anyone that I'm going to Taiwan for surgery. I was even scared enough to put my best friend's number down on my registration paper in case something happen with my surgery.
Also, in my opinion the nurses are nice enough if you talk more with them. I didnt talk that much, but I was being very polite to them (Taiwanese are mostly polite) and eventually they were being gentle and care with me too. Two of them were even trying to speak English with me before they knew I understand Mandarin. It is highly recommended for u who doesnt speak any Mandarin or Taiwanese to bring someone as ur translator. My mandarin isnt that good but at least still on conversational level
I was discharged from the hospital on Tuesday, and Dr. Hsu asked me to see him on Wed night to help me cleaning my nose. When some people found it painless or just rather uncomfortable, I found it quite painful and VERY uncomfortable!! Probably because my nose condition was keep bleeding and after a while it is stuck there become hard to clean. I will rather have my blood taken or having injections than having my bleeding nose cleaned by him -_- He then asked me to come again on Saturday to remove some of my stitches (he said to make the scar become less visible since he cut my alar quite high) and clean my nose again (sigh!). The stitch removal itself was painless but again the cleaning part really got my nerves. One thing I need to warn u, ladies (esp the long-haired ones), u wont be able to wash ur hair for a week and I found it quite disturbing. My hair become very oily and super itchy till I need to ask Dr. Hsu is there any way to wash my hair. He then nicely enough refered me to the salon accross the road and give the instruction to the lady not to touch my ear zone. After that he asked me to go back to his clinic again and have him cleaning my ear wounds (he just finished cleaning it when I asked him if I can wash my hair). I go back again to him on Monday to have the rest of my stitches removed (as well as my nose cast) and for the first time in my life I saw so many whiteheads on my nose!! I was quite freaked out..up until this point I'm still having running nose and it worries me what will happen if I already left Taiwan. He said it was normal so I guess I just need to wait...
Dr. Hsu told me to see ENT specialist in Singapore another 1-2 week to clean my nose once again and to remove the inner stitches. He then gave me the medicine to remove scar (quite exp, NTD 1,600) and some ointment too. He told me my current nose is still not looking natural, so I need to wait for few months till I can see the final result.
Lastly, I paid Dr. Hsu with SGD instead of NTD and it costed me more (eventhough not much) coz no banks were open during weekends and he doesnt know the exact exchange rate so I need to give him more and he didnt return me the rest. So I suggest if any of u decide to go to him, please bring NTD instead.
I wanna say very sincere thank you to those people in the forum who helped me significantly with the whole process..finding out informations, exchanging ideas, had a nice light conversations and most important part: supporting each other. You guys are truly awesome and if it wasnt because of you I wouldnt be writing this long essay

. Special thanks are for Missuglynose, Hello84, Angelfern for the constant support, also for Blissful09, Aadvark and Feline.Eyes for very generous input and informations. Thank you Thank you Thank you!!
To those who are planning to go for Dr. Hsu, good luck! I dont regret my choice choosing him as my doctor
