Dr. Jennifer Walden

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26 days post-op… healing, but (trying to) make it chic. ✨

Falling on the IG kinda chic trend inspired by Reese Witherspoon💗. Today at 26 days after face & necklift with upper lid blepharoplasty and nanofat transfer to the face.

Two days ago I was reunited with my old friend, Botox, 🥳 💉 of which I had been abstaining from for the past 5-6 months, yet getting in the forehead and brow muscles since I was a resident 😭! Yessssssss. Thank you, I needed that. 😍💕

Enjoy my post op kinda chic 🎠 carousel!

Heading to Crete kinda soon! 🇬🇷☀️😎

I’m excited to be part of the 3rd Mediterranean Conference of Plastic Surgery Innovations this September at the beautiful Elounda Beach Hotel. 🌊

I’ll be co-moderating 🎙️ the Facial Rejuvenation opening session with the indomitable Rod Rohrich and kicking off the meeting with a talk on dual-wavelength subdermal laser technology—looking at facial contouring, skin tightening, and where these technologies fit alongside facelift surgery. 🧮

My lecture is “From Predicate to Platform”: where subdermal laser actually fits next to the energy and surgical techniques we are already using. It’s the work I’ve been doing in the OR all year so hit me with your questions! 🙋🏽‍♀️

If you’re headed to Greece for it, find me and say hi. And if you’ve been on the fence, this is your sign! Lots of great faculty, interesting techniques, and conversations around where facial rejuvenation is headed! 🍋🇬🇷

Hello Friday and Postoperative day #18! 💉💕📆

This morning I performed my first major surgery under general anesthesia since my own facelift and lateral platysmaplasty—today I did a breast augmentation. My sweet patient is post-op day 0, and I’m post-op day 18. First pic is after surgery was finished and took off my gear to make sure everything was still put in the right place! 🤪

The cervical collar and the mask in the OR were a vibe. 💗 I’m 18 days out from a facelift and lateral platysmaplasty and upper lids, and the collar keeps my neck from flexing and shearing tissues that have been sutured into place and are still healing on the side of my neck. Operating means looking down for hours so the collar is what makes that safe. The mask stays on to help tamp down on facial swelling while moving around on my feet. It’s not the most glamorous OR attire, but healing doesn’t stop just because you’re back at work. My CRNA said looks like I’m operating in the Himalayans. 🥶😷🏔️

Grateful for a team that made today seamless and helped with all that retraction, (we prepped for it!), and for my awesome patient who trusted me with hers. 🤍 I also want to thank the my patients who are undergoing longer or more strenuous multi-part surgery who are patiently waiting for me to recover. I very much appreciate your understanding! 🙏

Laser Tuesday!

Perk of the Chief Medical Officer seat at Onyxa Medical: I get to put other lasers through their paces! ⚡️

Today we ran UltraClear on two patients who had Junera® — our 980/1470nm dual-wavelength subdermal laser — within the last four weeks. Both are already showing excellent results, so now we’re learning more about tissue remodeling and superficial skin treatment by stacking: energy from below with Junera, energy from above with laser coring and resurfacing. Finished with topical PDGF.

Junera works beneath the skin to stimulate remodeling at depth, while UltraClear addresses the skin surface with precision and has a skin coring aspect for more definition. I’m excited to see how this combination performs as these patients continue to heal!

And speaking of lasers… we’ve been working on something exciting at Onyxa Medical. If smooth, refined, “ironed out” skin with a minimum of downtime is your goal, stay tuned. We can’t wait to share what’s coming next. ☺️

Post-op Day 13! Turns out 13 isn’t such an unlucky number after all ☀️

Thirteen days after my facelift, neck lift, and bleph and
the swelling continues to improve every day. my incisions are becoming less noticeable, and it’s exciting to watch the result reveal itself a little more each morning.

Living the surgical recovery has been one of the most valuable lessons I’ve given myself. Healing isn’t linear. Some days you feel fantastic with your Starbucks Caffe Mocha Grande ☕️, others you go home from work and down Torchy's Tacos tacos and fall asleep 💤 🤪. Then suddenly, you realize you’re turning a corner!

I’ve been diligent about following every instruction I give my own patients: protecting my skin from the Texas sun with a hat and sunscreen (I used IMAGE Skincare SPF 50 today!), keeping my activity light, staying hydrated, and giving my tissues the time they need to heal. But I’m a diurnal / light-based being and getting outside and seeing sunlight keeps me sane and relaxes me 🌞.

To everyone following along on this journey—thank you to all who have commented, sent well wishes, DM’d, and checked in on both me and Dr. Aston. The messages, the questions, the kind words — I’ve read every one, and so has he!

I hope sharing the real recovery process helps demystify facelift surgery and gives future patients an expectation of what healing can look like although every patient is different!

And to Dr. Sherrell Jerone Aston… thank you for being the human version of Anthropic 🤖 and being able to find the blueprint of my younger self in your brain and hands, to take me back to that version. I said a prayer for God to bless those hands right before going out like a light 💉!! 😇

Inner healing has revealed to me of all people, the aesthetic plastic surgeon, that it’s actually not about vanity so much in that it reminds you that you can’t get those days back 🥺— and to enjoy and make the most of every day and moment in this life that goes by. ❤️🙂‍↕️

Post-op Day 11! ❤️‍🩹

A few milestones today👇🏽

First day back in the OR performing Junera treatments (yes… wearing the Junera compression face mask while doing it). It felt great to be back taking care of patients, even if I’m still [trying] to follow my recovery restrictions. But my surgeon did release me to start back lightly today! 🫡👏

Another checkpoint: all facial sutures are out, and half of the postauricular staples hidden in my hair have been removed. My posterior hairline is totally aligned and the postauricular (behind the ear) incision therefore is inconspicuous. Some expected edema around the periorbital area and midface, but that’s normal for this stage.

I also made my first public outing at my son’s band parent meeting! He even came and sat down by me 😏
Baseball cap on, hair worn down… Walked in wearing the hat, where I’m fairly certain at least one person clocked me as a transfer senior. Hahaha thank you Dr. Sherrell Jerone Aston, that video aged well😭😂🎓!!

Favorite thing? No Zoom or tech neck when looking down!! Jeez that’s a gift I never knew I needed so much. 💝📲


(i shared some of MY high school music for this post 🤓 much to my sons’ chagrin 👾)

Post-Op Day 8: The Surgeon as Patient (Still Trying to Behave)🏡

I’m officially back home in Austin, and my amazing clinical team in my office has taken over. Today was suture removal day—carefully removing some of the preauricular facelift stitches while intentionally leaving the high-tension sutures in place a little longer to protect the incision during this critical phase of healing.

As much as every surgeon wants to grab the instruments and “help” (I suppose that’s the right word 😜!), I’ve been doing my best to try to stay in the patient’s chair. Every so often I’d get handed the mirror to take a look and offer my two cents and give a few directions — old habits die hard! 🥴

Recovery is about respecting the body’s healing process afterward which means keeping my activity level low, listening when my nurses tell me to slow down, and even paying attention to things like blood pressure—which has been running a little bit higher than when in NYC. I’m doing my best to actually rest — which, if you know me, is the hardest part of any recovery.

And so they send me home❤️‍🩹😬….turns out being a good patient is a completely different skill set than being a good surgeon. My team is not taking any excuses from me!😭😅

One thing I’ve added to my nightly routine is LED red light therapy ⭕️ using my CurrentBody LED Light Therapy Mask. Red light (typically around the 630-660 nm wavelength) and near-infrared light (around 830 nm) have been studied for their ability to support wound healing by stimulating mitochondrial activity, increasing ATP production, improving microcirculation, and helping modulate inflammation. While it’s certainly not a substitute for meticulous surgery or proper postoperative care, it’s one of the adjuncts I feel fits into my recovery process. Now it’s part of my nightly wind-down, New York Jets shirt and all! 💚🏈

I’m so happy with the results and swelling is coming down each day! Healing takes patience — even when you’re the one who usually gives the instructions!!😅 Thank you all for your well wishes, support and all of the compliments to the chef 🤌🏼 (my surgeon) Dr. Sherrell Jerone Aston have been greatly appreciated!

Photo cred Rachel Isca 📸