The emotional scars take longer to heal
Carrie Underwood performs at the ACM Awards. Photo: Michele Crowe/CBS via Getty Images “It’s not that bad!” my husband says when I emerge groggy from the surgery I’ve just had to fix my broken face.
I spring to my feet ready to shout “I’m OK!” to all the onlookers. But there aren’t any. Drivers go by. I’m alone in my upstate town, where I had recently moved after 14 years in New York City. I call a dozen and can’t get in anywhere until September — three months away. Where the fuck am I living? Why did I leave my One Medical membership? I text my X-ray report to my best friend, a pediatrician, and she tells me to get my broken-ass face to a dentist and an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist . I call an ENT, who takes a quick glance at my X-rays and says I need to see a plastic surgeon. ASAP.I’m averagely attractive and averagely vain.
It’s a good decision. My surgeon tells me that once she got into my cheek — through incisions under my eye, along the corner of my eyebrow and inside of my mouth — it was worse than expected. The part of the bone above my mouth was so shattered she couldn’t repair it. But she was able to put a plate under my eye to fix the fracture that was causing the dent in my cheek.It’s a minor surgery but I’m more incapacitated than I anticipated.
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