nasal passage*

*it was either this or "POST: nasal drip".


hi. sorry i've been out o' commission. i have good excuses.


so i had my nasal polyp surgery two weeks ago today. i went under general anesthesia for a little over two hours (my first time ever experiencing that -- dada no likey), and they shaved out the polyps and straightened my deviated septum. dr. clarke shoved some packing up in there to help it all heal in place.

[warning: please put down your strawberry smoothie for this next paragraph.]

i (slowly) woke up and needed water NOW, so they got me some 'ice chips'. apparently, i had vomited pretty violently at some point right before i awoke; of course, i have zero recollection of this. i also had this "drip-pad" right under my nostrils to soak up the flow of blood. not the most physically ideal situation to wake up to.

i totaled about six (6) hours of sleep the next four days and nights, mostly due to the inability to breathe out m'nose. it wasn't 'til monday afternoon that i began to feel "normal": some of the packing had begun to dissolve, which provided some airflow out m'nostrils. wednesday morning i went to dr. clarke and he sucked out most of the rest of the gunk that was up there. that was the turning point; my first inhalation after that was evidence enough that this surgery was worth it. i was already breathing better than i had in literally years.

it's now two weeks later, and i am a new man. seriously. before the surgery, i would ordinarily wake up about every 90 minutes-2 hours most every night (and fall right back to sleep, but it still was interruptive). the last seven days have consisted of full-ish nights of sleep (barring my three-day trip to boston last weekend to my sister's kick-ass party for getting her Ph.D.), and i feel better every day!! i'm so thankful.

dr. clarke is tha man. i told him he changed my life. he took it well.