Minor Gore Warning – For The Injury Not Just My Face!

So the begining of the night started so promisingly, as you can see below. I was on my way to take a Cub Scout Troop on a ghost walk around my local home town. One of the ladies at work is a leader and new how much I loved the paranormal so asked if I would do it and i jumped at the chance. Unfortunatley I didn’t get very far.

The last pic taken with my original face

I am a rather hyeractive person and I get carried away easily, which you will come to see as you get to know me. As we started the tour I ‘somehow’ ended up racing one of the cubs down the road, he said I was super fast so I don’t feel I had a choice but to show off a little more. Well the street is cobbled. Man I went down like a sack of spuds and, for reasons unknown to me, I didn’t put my hands out. I landed straight on my face!

As I lifted myself onto all fours the first thing I noticed, other than the puddle of blood under my face, was my nose. I could see it clearly with my left eye. My vanity kicked in and I pulled it back round, I know! I assumed it would just click back into place but it didn’t, it felt like playdough. It was as I was playing with my nose that I noticed I had gone blind in my right eye. A few blinks put this right and by that time people had arrived to help. I looked at my friend and said ‘Is my nose straight?’ She took one brief look and said ‘Noooooo’ which actually made me laugh.

My Aunt once told me ‘One easy way to tell if your old is that if you fall, and people laugh, your young but if you fall and they come running, your old’

My mother-in-law took me to the hospital, shes a carer but did seem to struggle to look at me. As we sat in A&E we were chatting away, its worth noting that I felt no pain at any point. It would turn out the first thing that happend was the that I severed all the nerve endings in that area, I thought it was shock but at no point since has it hurt, in fact its still a little numb 4 months later.

Anyway as we were in A&E I looked over and saw a friend on the other side also waiting to be seen. I yelled at her, gave her a big smile and a wave but I will never forget the look on her face! I must have looked like something out of a horror film! So I went in to see the Dr who asked all the usual questions and said that everything seemed absolutely fine except for the fact he could see my skull. I suddenly realised why my mother-in-law was not looking at me. All my attention had been on my nose, I hadn’t ever registered the cut on my head! So the first thing I did when I left the room was take a selfie…

By following the bridge of my nose you can see just how on the wonk it was

He asked if he could stitch it but I stressed how vain I am and he agreed to glue it, which more than did the job. Then it was time to go home and recover / milk it.

I was offered more advice than I can I remember but the two things that have really helped are

• Keeping it moisturised 24hrs a day. I have sworn by Rabot 1745 Wonder Balm from Hotel Chocolat but they have discontinued it! It was perfect for everything so this is a real loss.
• Take Marine Collagen Suppliments in high dose. I take this from Holland&Barret, I will be using this long after the scar is gone! It has minimised pores and removed freckles as well as helping heal the scar.

It’s now 4 months since I did it and whilst I still have a small indent on my forehead it is fading fast, same goes for the cut down my nose.

The Positives

Free nose job! As you can see below I used to have a bump on the top of my nose, something that has made me self consious over the years, now it is gone.

A horizontal scar between my eyebrows has been great at reducing wrinkles! It has been impossible to furrow my brows meaning less wrinkles all over,

Breathing is easier! I have always struggled to breath when exercising as my nasal passage is very narrow but as my nose has gone down at the top it has gotten wide at the bottem meaning I can breath through my nose preventing dry lungs.

Timing It happened on the first day of a week off meaning no unpaid time off.

No Children Were Hurt During The Making Of This Blog – They were all able to confidently describe the ghost they saw push me by the end of the night

So you will have noticed from this post that I am one of those positive sorts, every cloud has a silver lining sometimes it’s just harder to spot.

Lots Of Love Kel xx