Reader report: My second visit to Electrology 3000 |
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A reader reports on her second visit to Electrology 3000:
2nd Visit to E3K
I was a bit concerned after my first trip to E3K to start electrolysis work
on my face. My face took a while to recover, I took a week and half vacation
and the swelling was mostly gone, the bruising was completely gone. Since I
only have so much vacation though I was worried about a second visit. That
plus the fact that it took about 2 weeks for any hair growth to show, I
really didn’t have a good idea of what time to book. Realizing that my beard
growth was on the light side to begin with, and when speaking with the
ladies during my first visit (which took approximately 10 hours total time)
I scheduled just 6 hours for my second visit. I did speak with Irma about my
concern that if it ran over the allotted time, would they finish anyway and
I would pay the difference. She agreed and instead of one lady, I had an
appointment with 2 ladies again.
My trip out the first time seemed to work very well, arriving the day before
my appointment, asking the hotel shuttle for a ride to the local store to
pick up supplies for the 3 days I would be there. I bought travel sizes on
the dove bar of soap (I preferred Dove because some of the soaps actually
contain lye which I would not want to rub into my face after all the
electrolysis), toothpaste, and mouthwash. Enough orange juice, water, milk
and snacks so I wouldn’t have to worry about leaving the hotel for the
remainder of my stay. I thought that it would be good to force my jaws to
work so I bought gum to chew in the hope that it would help recovery, I have
a feeling that it was a good thing to do. Much in the same way if you were
to over do exercise or some physical activity, the next day all your muscles
are sore, I think it is good to at least be active instead of laying around
as it makes recovery much quicker.
I again ordered a large pizza and salad for dinner so I would be able to
take the salad for lunch the next day and have pizza for dinner the next 2
days. Breakfast each day was at the hotel buffet, a nice selection of eggs,
waffles, Danish, toast, cereal, whatever you feel comfortable having.
The hotel again provided a shuttle trip to E3K, I was a few minutes early
and ended up walking around the plaza until they opened.
The 2 ladies who were there to work on me were Sabrina and Star.
Star began with the injections and a few minutes later Sabrina came in and
they started. I was not as nervous this time, knowing a little more what to
expect as far as the discomfort when numbing the areas to be worked on. That
is not to say that the process did not have me taking deep breaths and
tightening every muscle in my body so hard that I was shaking while they
were doing injections.
I was very surprised when they finished up approximately 3 hours later; I
thought that it would take a while longer. I noticed after this 2nd
appointment that there was barely any oozing that night and the next day. I
suspect that it had a lot to do with the number of injections.
I spoke with Sabrina after the work was completed and she thought that
everything went well and that the next visit she would be able to schedule
only herself for half a day, if it runs over, she said she would stay to
finish. Star was nice enough to drive me back to the hotel again; I did tip
both ladies and thanked them for their work.
Today is 4 days later, there are a few bruises on a couple of the injection
sites, and the swelling on the upper lip is almost unnoticeable. There is
still a slight hint of the redness on the upper lip and chin, although that
lingered a few days longer after the first visit. I am amazed when I wash my
face in the mirror with the lack of hair on my upper lip and chin. My cheeks
are very clean and almost all of the numbness is gone, after my first visit
it took about 5 weeks for the numbness on my chin and upper lip to leave.In trying to look far enough ahead, (checking airline flight times to DFW),
it looks like I would be able to arrive approximately noon at the airport
and take the shuttle to E3K for an appointment approximately 1:00 pm local
time. That would allow me to save on an extra night at the hotel, as I would
still like to be able to apply the ice after the work is completed and the
next day to be able to apply hot moist towels as my personal feeing is to
ice soreness right away and the next day to apply heat.I am also trying to visualize far enough ahead so that when the appointments
drop down in time and cost I will be able to start the clearing in the other
area of importance. I think that after my 3rd visit, I will have a much
better idea of recovery time needed before I return to work. My thoughts in
starting at the end of August were using up my vacation this year for my
first few visits and then next year the recovery times would be much faster
and I would not need to schedule as much time off. The other concern was
the money required, this is a large sum of money that I needed to save and
with the possibility of being downsized, I realized if I did not start this
year I may never have been able to afford to, I would have always had an
easy excuse that I could not afford it.I hope you will find this information helpful while considering your own
schedule for treatments and possibly help in making it a little more
affordable.
