The Bond of Fate

This morning, too, a welcome connection came by.

 

A month ago, it was someone who had briefly returned home from a faraway country to undergo facial contouring surgery. Now, a month after the surgery, with only a few days left before leaving again, they had come in one last time to check on their progress.

While talking with them about this and that, I learned something unexpected.

It turned out that the person I operated on yesterday had seemed to have many questions and was very anxious before the surgery, so we had talked several times. They were now carefully asking me whether the surgery had gone well and how the recovery was going.

They also added that, if possible, they would really like to meet that person in person once and speak to them comfortably.

 

It was a very unexpected fact for me, since I had no idea that the two knew each other.

So I asked for the backstory, and they told me that although they had never seen each other's faces, they had met online while searching for various information about the same concern, and had occasionally exchanged messages.

Even in the past, among people who kept in touch online without knowing each other's faces, there were many times when the person who had surgery first contacted me hoping for the good recovery of the person who would have surgery later. There were also cases where, after some time had passed, those people came together to check on their progress.

 

But this was the first time they had met face to face and talked directly the day after surgery.

 

In a way, it is a part of themselves that they would not particularly want to expose, so I wondered how such consideration and warmth had come about, and with that happy feeling, I let them meet.

I felt that a new bond in a very precious and heartwarming connection had been created.

 

As for the technical process of the surgery I perform, I have always been confident that there is not even the slightest doubt or variable.

The basis for that belief is that I have been doing the same surgeries almost every day for 10 years and have continued to observe their later progress.

Over that not-short period of time, I have shared the stories and time of thousands of people, learning how they feel about the process at 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 5 years... after surgery—what kinds of discomfort, impatience, anxiety, or happiness they experience during those times—so it has naturally become something I have come to understand.

Therefore, the most important part of my attitude toward surgery is the happy future they will face after the operation.

 

Every time I begin a surgery, while looking at the sleeping person, I have had many thoughts, and I still do today.

'How much anxiety and fear must they have overcome to be lying here?'

'If you think about it, this is a surgery they could probably live without doing, with no major immediate inconvenience in daily life. So what brought them here?'

'How grateful should I be for the deep trust they have given me, enough to overcome such anxiety and fear, and how should I repay it, and how precious a connection is it?'

 

Therefore,

from my perspective,

during the surgery, sincerely wishing for their happiness and imagining a beautiful future is the most important part of the surgical process.

 

 

This morning, I watched someone who came to see me

form a new connection with another person who had shared the same worries and struggled with anxiety and fear.

 

There is no need to say that these bonds are precious to me,

and I started the day happily, hoping that for both of them, this connection would continue in a healthier and warmer way from now on.

 

If you do not mind after reading this post, I will also upload the before-and-after 3DCT images together.^.^