Dr. Sheibani,
It has been seven months since my face lift and I writing to express my heartfelt gratitude; your operation has restored my confidence in my appearance, and with hardly any real pain at all.
I want you to know that people have had a really spectacular response to your work. I stayed inside for 2 weeks after the operation, but on the 15th day I went back out into the world having told only one person about the procedure. Absolutely everyone told me how good I looked in a beard! You should have grown a beard years ago they said, It suits your face so well they told me. They saw a huge change, but thought it was my beard! Of course, it was the contour that you had created that they perceived through the beard that they were really responding to, without knowing it. Later, when I shaved the beard, people who knew me commented on how much good it had done my face to give it a rest from shaving! And strangers at the dog park, in the supermarket, at the gym asked me over and over if I was a movie star’. One day, a guy in the sauna swore he knew me from television but couldn’t remember which show I was on. And then everyone else in the sauna started to name shows and asked me if I was an actor! Now, at the seven month mark, swelling has subsided, tissues have healed, the work has had time to relax. I now no longer get the movie star remarks; but people still feel compelled to comment all the time on how well I am looking, how healthy. Of course, what they are really admiring is not my beard, my face or my healthy look, but your artistic eye, and surgical skill.
It is a very, very nice feeling indeed to have confidence restored at age 55, and the gratitude I have for you cannot be deeper or more genuine. I will always with you well, Dr. Sheibani.