DECEMBER 1, 2008 @ 03:55 AM | NO COMMENTS
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The surgery was on Friday and it was brutal. I got local anesthesia, it wore off once and wasn't hitting the right nerves another time. The doctor removed three nasal polyps, a cyst, and some of the small bones that separated my sinus cavities. It was between an hour and a half and two hours on the table lying there awake with them poking in my nose. When it was over I felt like I had been hit with a bat in the nose and upper teeth. I still feel that way most of the time Korean's don't seem to believe in painkillers as being part of modern medicine. I spent most of the next day in hospital pajamas that are clearly too small for me and they were XXL in Korean size, crying blood for tears, because I am so Goth. Ok, maybe it was a side effect of the surgery. The bloody tears stopped Sunday sometime, I am not sure when.
I went back the following week and the nice doctor cut a chunk of bone out when he saw it exposed with out any thing other than a small warning of "this a pain, endure."
It still hurts. They took the nasal splints out Saturday two weeks later and I am still crying from time to time due to the pain as it just hurts, and they won't give me any painkillers other than Ibuprofen, or acetaminophen, that's right (Motrin or Tylenol) not something that would work like codeine, or morphine after surgery.
Currently, it is 17 days after surgery and it still hurts enough that I either drink or cry or both from time to time. But like the times I have caught on fire and been seriously burned you just get used to the pain, and learn to ignore it until it goes away and the healing is completed. I have a cotton ball stuffed up inside my nose, the doctor put it there after removing the splits, so only on one side, but my breathing is already better than it was and he is going to have to pull out "crusts." I think he means scabbed things from where he removed tissue and bone but when he pulled out the last one I almost decked him so he is a bit wearier of saying,...
The surgery was on Friday and it was brutal. I got local anesthesia, it wore off once and wasn't hitting the right nerves another time. The doctor removed three nasal polyps, a cyst, and some of the small bones that separated my sinus cavities. It was between an hour and a half and two hours on the table lying there awake with them poking in my nose. When it was over I felt like I had been hit with a bat in the nose and upper teeth. I still feel that way most of the time Korean's don't seem to believe in painkillers as being part of modern medicine. I spent most of the next day in hospital pajamas that are clearly too small for me and they were XXL in Korean size, crying blood for tears, because I am so Goth. Ok, maybe it was a side effect of the surgery. The bloody tears stopped Sunday sometime, I am not sure when.
I went back the following week and the nice doctor cut a chunk of bone out when he saw it exposed with out any thing other than a small warning of "this a pain, endure."
It still hurts. They took the nasal splints out Saturday two weeks later and I am still crying from time to time due to the pain as it just hurts, and they won't give me any painkillers other than Ibuprofen, or acetaminophen, that's right (Motrin or Tylenol) not something that would work like codeine, or morphine after surgery.
Currently, it is 17 days after surgery and it still hurts enough that I either drink or cry or both from time to time. But like the times I have caught on fire and been seriously burned you just get used to the pain, and learn to ignore it until it goes away and the healing is completed. I have a cotton ball stuffed up inside my nose, the doctor put it there after removing the splits, so only on one side, but my breathing is already better than it was and he is going to have to pull out "crusts." I think he means scabbed things from where he removed tissue and bone but when he pulled out the last one I almost decked him so he is a bit wearier of saying, "just endure."
Overall the things that have come out of my nose are well impressive simply due to the size of them. I had no idea that the nasal cavity is that big.
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I went back the following week and the nice doctor cut a chunk of bone out when he saw it exposed with out any thing other than a small warning of "this a pain, endure."
It still hurts. They took the nasal splints out Saturday two weeks later and I am still crying from time to time due to the pain as it just hurts, and they won't give me any painkillers other than Ibuprofen, or acetaminophen, that's right (Motrin or Tylenol) not something that would work like codeine, or morphine after surgery.
Currently, it is 17 days after surgery and it still hurts enough that I either drink or cry or both from time to time. But like the times I have caught on fire and been seriously burned you just get used to the pain, and learn to ignore it until it goes away and the healing is completed. I have a cotton ball stuffed up inside my nose, the doctor put it there after removing the splits, so only on one side, but my breathing is already better than it was and he is going to have to pull out "crusts." I think he means scabbed things from where he removed tissue and bone but when he pulled out the last one I almost decked him so he is a bit wearier of saying,...