facelift

How has your week been? Here in Mexico it’s summer and I’ve almost beat my jetlag!

I thought I’ll share some pics and a video of my surgery I had in Sweden. Hope I don’t gross anyone out hahahaaa…

I felt my face was sagging on the bottom half and it was starting to look a bit like a raisin. I especially didn’t like the deep creases from my mouth down that I felt made me look like I was always miserable. I was recommended to see Dr. Maximilian Otte. Supposedly a perfectionist out to his fingertips. I felt confident after my consultation with him and we decided on a lower facelift and some injections of my own fat in the hollow areas. Surgery was then booked for April 25th.

These are the pics I took before and I circled what I was not happy with. And the last picture showing expected results 😉

I was to be at Akademikliniken at 7am on the 25th. Very excited and not nervous. I kind of like anesthesia for some weird reason. Like a supergood nap. Met with the anesthesia doctor or whatever he’s called, and he asked some questions and explained what he was going to do. Then with Dr Maximillian who pulled my face, tapped on the hollow areas, and drew marks on where he was going to pull, suck the fat out of me (inside my legs and belly) and where to inject it.

I was second in line to be operated on. Finally it was my turn, and the last thing that I remember is the anesthesia doctor asking if I felt anything. I responded “It feels like I’m at a club and had 2 tequila shots, amazing…” and then I was out.

3.5h later thanks to all of the painkillers I felt amazing and a bit groggy when waking up. My whole head was wrapped up. Had an ice pack around my lower face, my legs had some kind of massage things to prevent blood clots, and I had a catheter so I didn’t even have to get up to pee 🙂 Also some tubes behind my ears that let out any excess blood. Oh and my favorite part is when they feed you when you wake up! Tastes sooo good!

Felt pretty good to get it all removed the next day. Except for when they pulled the tubes out that was under the skin. See in the video 🙂

Took a shower and was released to go home. I thought I’d be more bruised and swollen, but I think I looked pretty presentable right after 🙂 This pic is when I got home the day after.

3 days after…

Hardest part was sleeping on my back, face-up. I like to sleep on my side and on my face. A week after I went back for a check-up and removing the stitches in front of my ears. The stitches behind my ears are stitches that dissolve by themselves.

I also had to take shots for 10 days to prevent blood clots. I really do hate needles. Thankfully my sister didn’t mind stabbing my legs 🙂 Here are pics I took this Friday. I’m so happy with the results. It’s still healing, but I can see a huge difference. Bye bye raisin-face!

And here’s a video if you still want more… Oh, and for some reason I had to show my titty in the middle of the video so be aware if you watch this in the office (NSFW) hahahaaa… Or are offended by tits 😉

https://videopress.com/v/56E3Jm1u?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true

Pretty much it. I feel great, but have to take it easy for one more week before exercising. Now I’m going to take a nap because jetlag just refuses to give up!

Nos vemos, Puma

Damn, time went by way too fast in Sweden. I got back to Mexico last night. It felt like I came to Sweden, celebrated Easter by visiting different friends and eating lots of candy, jetlagged, more friends & family time, had surgery, recovered pretty much, and then jumped on a plane back home again.

I was lucky that Sweden for once had pretty decent spring weather. The week before it could be sunny at noon and snowing a couple of hours later. Between all of the Easter meals my sister and I needed a walk. Something that runs in my family is that we can all sleep pretty much anywhere, at any time. This dock with a bench was a perfect nap spot 🙂

Right after Easter I had my consultation for a lower facelift. I probably could’ve waited a couple of more years for more saggy skin to pull up, but I’m not much for waiting when I want to do something. I was recommended a German surgeon whom my friend said he’s all about German precision. I was happy with the consultation and a surgery date was booked. All went great and I’m very happy. I will write a different post about this and show pics. Still have some bruising and swelling so waiting for final results 🙂

Something that’s great about Stockholm is there’s a lot of nature close to the city. I love being out in the woods. With my sister and 2 friends we hiked from Huddinge and checked out Tornberget. It’s a 10 meter high construction in the middle of the woods. It’s the highest spot in Stockholm – 111 meters above sea level, with great views from the top.

I always feel so happy when I’m in the woods and I try to make it a priority to spend more time outdoors hiking or camping. If I had to pick between a week hiking trip or say a beach vacation, I’d pick hiking and being outdoors any day.

After hiking we went to Karina’s summer house where they have a sauna right by a lake. Wow, perfect ending to the day and we actually got in the water too. I was going to write that we swam, but it was more like holding on to the stairs and dipping yourself and then hurrying back into the sauna. Obviously not before someone takes my pic!

Talking about sauna, me being a Finn and obviously loving saunas. But we’re also supposed to be very thirsty people, so my friend brought me 10 liters of vodka. Where and how she got it, probably is better untold hahhaaaa…

Spent a lot of time with my nephew, his girlfriend, and their “baby”. He’s 1 year and 3 months… is that a baby or a kid? First time for me meeting the little one and damn he is adorable. I’m not much for kids unless they are my friends and are cool to play with. One day we visited this incredible waffle place that feels like it’s in the middle of nowhere. It’s called Klockargårdens Våffleri. It’s about a 50 minute drive from Stockholm City in the countryside. It’s most definitely worth the drive if you visit Stockholm. So peaceful and tasty waffles!

It was great to be back in Sweden and seeing friends and family. Maybe I’ll make another trip there this summer. Now I’m very happy being back in Mexico City. Got some recovery to do and look forward to getting back to work 🙂 I leave you with the best thing coming out of Sweden after Puma Swede that is hahahaaa…

Cheers, Puma

Tag: facelift

3 weeks of Sweden