having my nose broken

[fox]

So I realized this afternoon that I may not have mentioned ... much of anywhere ... that I'm going in for sinus surgery on Friday.

\o/

Septoplasty and inferior turbinate resection; basically I'm having them straighten my septum (which is seriously deviated) and shave back some of the turbinate bones, which are what make your sinuses curve like a river delta. Mine are hypertrophic - yay for them? - meaning my sinuses are waaay too narrow for normal purposes. The balloon sinuplasty I had almost two years ago has helped a lot, but this will help even more. (It's not the usual sinus surgery you hear about when people use the word "roto-rooter"; that involves scraping away a lot of built-up tissue. In my case the membranes are pretty much okay, it's just that even when nothing is swollen the walls are too close together because the bones are too big.)

I'm eagerly anticipating this and have been for months; I planned it for as soon after Easter and after curling ended so I wouldn't be letting hardly anybody down by being more or less out of commission for a week+ of recovery. But I'm also, this week, starting to feel anxious that the recovery is going to, you know. Hurt. My pain threshold is not outstanding, and even when I have a stupid little cold it only takes about a day before I'm whining about how crappy I feel. I apologized to Himself in advance this morning for the fact that I'm sure I will be a rotten patient. :-P

Comments

[mrshamill]

Yeah, it hurts, there's no sugar coating it. MrHamill was miserable for... well, he says he wasn't miserable at all, but you know him. I'd say it took him a good week to feel back to normal, and all he had was the septum straightened. He says you'll need diapers under your nose for a few days, and yeah, I remember that.

You don't have sleep apnea, do you? He fixed all this partially because he has it, and it did help. The CPap helped more, tho, imo.

Good luck! Eyes on the prize, you can get through anything short term.

[fox]

I don't think I do, no. (Have sleep apnea, I mean.) I don't snore, anyway. Sometimes I snurfle a bit, apparently, but not more than that. And I sleep like the dead. But I do generally wake up tired, so who knows if I'm micro-waking a lot during the night. No doctor has ever suggested that I be assessed for anything of the kind. I'm assuming that after a week of wretchedness everything will be better. :-)