Laser Resurfacing, Day Two

This morning I felt very tired, on account of poor sleep. I finally accepted the fact that if I was to sleep at all, then I had to sleep on my side, meaning that I had to destroy the moisturizer layer on most of my face. I tried to make up for it by applying more as soon as I got out of bed.

On the plus side, my pain level is now down to mild itching -- no more suburn. On the other hand, I'm still puffy. I'm also redder than yesterday. My face is puddled with spots of blood and oozing yellow fluid, which I guess is moisturizer mixed with platelet cells. The laser tracks are obvious if you click to zoom, almost like rice terraces viewed from space! On my forehead, you can see how the bottoms of my horizontal wrinkles are mostly unscathed, while the surrounding flesh has been nicely grilled. I think this is the result of the dermatologist's attempt to flatten the neighboring plateaus in order to be more level with the depth of the wrinkles, thus diminishing the latter.