Kalera -- do NOT let it keep bleeding -- it needs to STOP in order to
heal.
Also - you can actually lose a significant amount of blood from
that sort of thing.
Drink lots of fluids - stay hydrated.
The liquid hydrocodenone will be your friend - we
had to get liquid something (not that) but just codeine
I think for Chris - he couldn't swallow the pills after
the second day --
REST - SLEEP - DRINK FLUIDS
I would say that from what they did
you will be feeling far better, and far perkier
in 2 weeks....
just like my Chris - he was always dragging...
I think the damn doctors stunted his growth as
a teen because they wouldn't do anything -
saying it wasn't "serious" - but he grew after
he had them out - surprise surprise.
But by then he was nearly 21 -- and past his
good growth years.

Hope you've started on that stock of
banana popsicles too.
hugs --
rest girl!
Cheryl
Kalera wrote:
Actually I got back last night but I was too thrashed to post anything.

So I was totally not expecting the main part of my surgery to be the
sinus thing. I thought that was kind of an afterthought, more of a "hey
as long as we're in here anyway" but then it turned out that my left
sinus cavity was blocked by a huge cyst and has been filled with
festering solid matter for, evidently, years, and my right one was
sporting a slightly smaller cyst. In the meantime my turbinates had
swollen to like four times their normal size, so he "trimmed" them,
which sounds like the grossest thing evar. I think he might have done
something to my deviated septum as well.

My nose is all swollen and my face hurts. Also an astonishing amount of
blood keeps coming from it, which is apparently normal and fine. It's
slowed down since last night; I sat over a bucket last night and just
let it flow because I got tired of changing the gauze. There's some sort
of plastic framework inside my nostrils, which I get taken out on Monday.

Compared to the sinus reaming, the tonsils are a minimal inconvenience,
although solid food would be nice. Veggie broth with silken tofu cubes
is really not so bad though. Also I have the biggest goddamn bottle of
oxycodone and also, for real, a whole quart bottle of liquid
hydrocodone. I am waiting for Moxley to come home with some tofutti and
other foods more substantial than jell-o and popsicles.
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