ClintCanada
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For years I had trouble breathing through my right nostril, had it checked out and the doctor recommended surgery to 'open up' the nostril. Basically my septum looked straight on the outside but on the inside it was bent slightly and I had restricted air flow. I had the surgery at about 10:30am yesterday and am supposed to get the packing removed tomorrow.
By the way -- I'm just sharing this surgical experience -- no one else to talk to at the moment . . .
So yesterday when I'm discharged my wife is driving and as we're leaving the parking lot I feel like I've got something in my sinus that I need to suck out -- gross storey but like when you're sick and you've got an 'oyster' than you need to suck out and get rid of. So I suck a little bit and this clot comes loose into my mouth. I've got the vomit bag from the hospital ready in front of me and I start spitting it in but I realize this thing feels like its got some texture -- it's like chunky. I started pulling it gently with my fingers and I realize its gauze -- the packing from my nose was coming into my mouth from that opening in the back of the throat. So we turn the car around and go back to the hospital. I had already gotten about 12" into my mouth by this time . . .
When the original gauze packing was put in, I was under general anasthetic, so didn't feel a thing, but after about an hour, the doctor's assistant, a medical student comes over to remove the original stuff and re-pack it . . .
It wasn't a good experience to say the least -- getting the packing put in the second time around was maybe the most painful thing I've ever had done -- these thing were like pieces of cardboard instead of gauze and about 4 1/2 to 5 inches long -- **** it was like some alien optopsy scene off the X-Files having them pushed up there . . .
anyways -- that tells me 1 thing -- my nostril is now obviously allot bigger than it used to be in order to take that packing, so when the healing is done hopefully I'll be breathing allot better . . .
By the way -- I'm just sharing this surgical experience -- no one else to talk to at the moment . . .
So yesterday when I'm discharged my wife is driving and as we're leaving the parking lot I feel like I've got something in my sinus that I need to suck out -- gross storey but like when you're sick and you've got an 'oyster' than you need to suck out and get rid of. So I suck a little bit and this clot comes loose into my mouth. I've got the vomit bag from the hospital ready in front of me and I start spitting it in but I realize this thing feels like its got some texture -- it's like chunky. I started pulling it gently with my fingers and I realize its gauze -- the packing from my nose was coming into my mouth from that opening in the back of the throat. So we turn the car around and go back to the hospital. I had already gotten about 12" into my mouth by this time . . .
When the original gauze packing was put in, I was under general anasthetic, so didn't feel a thing, but after about an hour, the doctor's assistant, a medical student comes over to remove the original stuff and re-pack it . . .
It wasn't a good experience to say the least -- getting the packing put in the second time around was maybe the most painful thing I've ever had done -- these thing were like pieces of cardboard instead of gauze and about 4 1/2 to 5 inches long -- **** it was like some alien optopsy scene off the X-Files having them pushed up there . . .
anyways -- that tells me 1 thing -- my nostril is now obviously allot bigger than it used to be in order to take that packing, so when the healing is done hopefully I'll be breathing allot better . . .
