...an accident)? I was in a car crash three weeks ago and I got a really bad cut, which starts right next to my eye and running down my cheek. It was stitched at the hospital but the sutures got infected and they were taken out to allow the infection to clear up. I had antibiotics but it still took a week.

Now the cut itself is very red, but that's not what's worrying me - it's the swelling under the skin right next to the cut. I can cover the redness with make-up but the swelling makes me look like the Elephant Woman and there's nothing you can do to disguise it. The doctor says it's scar tissue but he's very vague about whether the swelling will ever go down. I don't honestly think he knows.

So ... I wondered, has anyone on here ever had this type of injury and how long did it take for the swelling to go ... if it ever did? If not, did you have plastic surgery and did it work? Thanks very much in advance for your help.