Sinus Surgery Update
// July 2nd, 2008 // post
Disclaimer: I do have vicadin in my system, so this post might reflect that fact. ;o)
So everything seems to have gone quite fine with my septoplasty (I’m beginning to like the term “sinus surgery”) today. I really didn’t expect to be awake, much less lucid today. But I’m doing pretty well!
When I woke up this morning, I went for a jog. My surgery was at 10:15 and I woke up at 7:30. I knew that I was not going to be able to exercise for a week or two so I really wanted to get in one last hurrah. I took it at an easy pace and ended up going just under 6 miles. I wasn’t sure if I was going to be doing myself a disservice or not. But other than being a bit hungry (no food after midnight last night), it seems to have been a good idea. I’m already having trouble sitting all day and went out to water my plants tonight. Dave got upset with me for that. 
I learned that water counts as food and I couldn’t have any past midnight either. But they neglected to mention that part. I love my water. Fortunately I didn’t have much and the anesthesiologist was ok with it because I had it much earlier in the day.
I have never had surgery before, so this was totally a new experience. First, they put an IV in the back of my hand! Gross! It hurt like a mother trucker. And even through today, the incision point actually hurts worse than my nose sometimes.
I have also never had general anesthesia before. I was expecting a gradual “out”, but no. It was sudden for sure. I have NO idea what happened in that surgery room. One minute I was talking and the next I was waking up in pain. I couldn’t swallow or cough for the next couple of minutes. They rushed to get pain medication through that darn IV in my hand. That was weird. Soon I was able to get some precious water and was feeling better. Dave came back in and they wheeled me out to his car.
The bottom of my nose does hurt and it’s swollen a bit, but neither is as bad as I expected. I got a pretty good nap earlier today and have been awake for a good 4 hours or so. The changing of the gauze is pretty nasty though. It makes me think of those horror movies where people see something really awful or are tortured in their brain and they always show blood dripping out of their nose. It’s just that graphic. ;o)
I’m hoping that I won’t have to wear this gauze for the July 4th/double birthday celebration with my family this weekend. I have a good three days to recover before then so here’s hoping.
I hope you enjoyed my drug-laced post for today. Thanks to everyone for their support. I think it’s going to be such a great improvement in the end!
