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Operation 15 is over
Oct. 31st, 2015 10:30 amI had surgery on my sinuses yesterday. You have six sinus cavities in the front of your skull, with tiny little passages between them. Well, my passages had basically closed off and weren't passing air, and were also nasty little pockets of infection. So yesterday I had a balloonoplasty procedure done.
It was not pleasant by any stretch of the imagination, but I've also had far worse. Afterwards we went to Applebee's for lunch (tomato basil soup and half of a BLT sandwich, along with a chocolate mousse shooter, quite good after having fasted for some 14 hours). Got some excellent pain meds and I REALLY needed them last night! Woke up this morning and I was breathing quite well with very little pain, I hope to not use the pain pills at all today (they're a useful thing to have around the house for the occasional muscular strain/sprain).
I'll be on antibiotics for a week and steroids for another day or so. One of the things that my doctor is having me do is a saline wash for my sinuses, something I've been doing for three years. It's a NeilMed squeeze bottle, and I'm temporarily doing it three times a day instead of twice. It is amazing the amount of bloody gunk that's getting flushed out. But this morning is less disgusting than last night, so that's improvement.
So today will be 'sit around the house and do very little', aside from needing to dig in to homework that I need to complete tomorrow night, I think I'm going to dig out my copy of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone and watch some trash. I also have the premier episode of Ash Vs The Evil Dead on my DVR, that'll be a must watch considering what day it is. And maybe Corpse Bride or Nightmare Before Christmas. And going down to the BBQ place and getting a sandwich and a pound of brisket.
It was not pleasant by any stretch of the imagination, but I've also had far worse. Afterwards we went to Applebee's for lunch (tomato basil soup and half of a BLT sandwich, along with a chocolate mousse shooter, quite good after having fasted for some 14 hours). Got some excellent pain meds and I REALLY needed them last night! Woke up this morning and I was breathing quite well with very little pain, I hope to not use the pain pills at all today (they're a useful thing to have around the house for the occasional muscular strain/sprain).
I'll be on antibiotics for a week and steroids for another day or so. One of the things that my doctor is having me do is a saline wash for my sinuses, something I've been doing for three years. It's a NeilMed squeeze bottle, and I'm temporarily doing it three times a day instead of twice. It is amazing the amount of bloody gunk that's getting flushed out. But this morning is less disgusting than last night, so that's improvement.
So today will be 'sit around the house and do very little', aside from needing to dig in to homework that I need to complete tomorrow night, I think I'm going to dig out my copy of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone and watch some trash. I also have the premier episode of Ash Vs The Evil Dead on my DVR, that'll be a must watch considering what day it is. And maybe Corpse Bride or Nightmare Before Christmas. And going down to the BBQ place and getting a sandwich and a pound of brisket.
