Going under the knife tomorrow morning :S (page 9)

BFD

I'm sorry about all this, elsewhere, but once you are healed as hard as it may be to believe now, I know it will have been worth the misery you are experiencing now.

BFD

Mary

Oh and on a more gross note... the stuff that is coming out now looks like "blood jello".

Come on Elsewhere, you know what you have to do: pour that blood jello out on the ground in symbolizm of.....well, you know the rest. Just be careful and try not to do too much too fast or you'll end up worse than before you had the surgery.

Elsewhere

Free at last! Free at last! Thank gawd almighty, I'm free at last!!!

*** Takes long deep breath through nose ***

I went in to the Dr this morning and he pulled out all of the hardware. He let me keep the plastic tubing from one side. It's almost three inches long and an inch tall! Remember that scene from Total Recall when Arnold Schwarzenegger pulled that huge capsule out of his nose?

The only bad thing is the Dr said it looks like I managed to catch the flu while recovering. I'm all laid up with that awful "flu" feeling with aches and general blah feeling. Last night I had a 101.8 F fever. Granted, the fever went back down to about 99.5, but I still feel awful.

This sucks!

greendawn

You seem to have got over the worst part with the pain, having to sleep uncomfortably and many therapy related things stuck in your nose, wishing you a fast recovery for the remaining part.

ESTEE

Elsewhere, I'm sending you all the positive vibes I can muster.

Drink up!

*hugs*

ESTEE

jgnat

What I wanna know is...did you get raccoon eyes?

Gregor

The flu on top of everything else? That sucks and blows.

Elsewhere

did you get raccoon eyes?

Actually, no! The only outward sign that anything happened was a very "nasal" sound to my voice. Now that the hardware has been removed I sound normal again... oh and I can smell again too!

Here is a pic of the rubber-hose thing that was put in my nose... actually there were two of them, one in each nostril. Its function was to provide support while my septum healed straight and to give me an access for doing frequent sinus rinses.

Oh, and yes, they were stitched into place by sewing threw the cartilage inside the end of my nose (that is what the little blue thread thing is).

Gregor

Hell, that ain't nothin'. When I was a kid they used terra cotta pipes and would makes us walk 10 miles in the snow to get them taken out.

Elsewhere

Holy crap! At least it wasn't up-hill both ways!

The flu on top of everything else? That sucks and blows.

Yeah, and until it actually happened to me, I didn't think it was physically possible!

Going under the knife tomorrow morning :S

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