Not to mention:
BAND NAME!
Hey, while you’re in, see if you can get them to put in a spigot. That way you could moonlight as a roving snot dispenser. Kinda like a kegger, except really disgusting.
That was my primary joke. My backup joke was to remind you to try very hard not to think about how they make mummies. 
So.
Are you a zombie now or what?
No, but just to make things worse on me, I found out that I have a funeral I have to go to this weekend. 
I’ve been napping all day, but this news has just totally drained me today. That science weekend may have to wait longer than I thought.
Tripler
Man, life always kicks me in the balls in January.
Feeling better today Tripler?
Do you mean drilling, as in metal screwing into bone, or do you mean drilling, a heavy suction pump shoved up your nose?
Because, you know, neither one sounds like much fun.
Physically, I am, thank you.
ivylass, I meant drilling as in “metal into bone in order to open a window between all the sinuses”. Yesterday morning, when they pulled out the ‘non-dissolvable packing’, I could feel the cotton all the way up in my forehead. It wasn’t pretty.
And the Vicodin isn’t working all that well, so I’m popping Tylenol too. But at least my nose has stopped running like a faucet, and has slowed to the occasional ‘drip drip’.
Tripler
This all had better be worth it. :mad:
My dad described it like that magic act where the guy just keeps pulling more and more handkerchiefs out of his pocket.
Go to your post office, get the shot glass I sent you, and drink yourself into a stupor. Wake up when this is all over.
:eek:
I wish I could draw better than I do–the nose tampon thing is begging for illustration.
I’ve been there. I had surgery to repair a deviated septum that was blocking my sinuses and leaving me with chronic sinus infections. It was so nice to be able to breathe afterwards! Congrats on getting through it, Tripler.
Wasn’t that nose-tampon just great? I was sure they had decided to mummify me and they were starting by pulling my brain out through my nose with a hook.
One bit of advice. If you feel a sneeze coming on in the next few days as you heal, which is likely because the healing may make it itch a little, just let it happen. Do not fight the sneeze. You will only make it worse. Trust me.
Illustration? close.
Eeuuww.
Well, I gotta go out of town for the weekend on some unfortunate family business, but I’ll give you an update on the runnings of my nose next week.
Besides that, it’s 2247 local . . . It’s “Vica-Time!” And thanks to the makers of Tylenol, it’s “Tyle-Time!”
Tripler
Toodles, for now. . .
My sister had that done too, and for whatever reason they also splinted her nose. As in, stuffed some long-ass plastic splints up in her nose. She couldn’t believe it when they pulled the splints out, how those had ever fit inside her head.
I had one of those nose-tampon things a few years ago when I had a nose bleed that wouldn’t stop. Doctor swore no one would notice it at work…yeah, right! Big white thing in my nose will be invisible! Plus I couldn’t breathe except through my mouth, and couldn’t sleep, and when they pulled it out…gosh, was that thing long!
Hope you’re all better soon, and sorry about whoever died.
I’ll be going for sinus surgery myself in March. Before my CAT scans I was hoping it would one of those hot pokers up the nose deallybobs that other people have gotten - instead - I a “on the right side opf the maxillary antra … a smoothly rounded mass ariseing from the floor of the antrum” and “a large smoothly rounded mass of soft tissue density posteriourly within the right sphenoid” in other words cycts or polyps (most likely mucus retention cysts) in my sinuses (I got my test results in my purse).
What scares me is the sphenoid sinus cyst is way inside the head – like way back there where my brain & eyes and big veins that supply blood to the brain & stuff.
So it is endoscopic sinus surgery for me - and I’ve made the ENT promise not to touch any of the important stuff while he’d inside my head!
But I did find out that I have one the the straightest septums the Dr. has ever seen.
Well, today I am back . . . and I present this detailed account not to be gross and disgusting, but to portray a scienfitically accurate picture of what I’m going through.
Aside from some bleeding at night earlier on in the week, the thing is going pretty smoothly. The splints are still in and come out on Thursday, but for the most part, all the drainage on the nose end has stopped.
While on the plane back into GF today, I did start sniffling. Then I started snorting. Then I started . . . pulling back on this little hangy-down feeling in the back of my throat and hacking it down and out into my throat . . . only to feel this what I can only describe as a “big mass ‘o’ goo” drop out of the back of my sinuses and into my throat. Right then and there I wanted to run back to the plane’s bathroom and spit it out to observe what my tender cranial innards had wrought, but we were descending and the pilot had turned on the magical “Fasten Seatbelt” light. I momentarily considered holding it in my mouth until I got home, but it was too big and squishy. So, I swallowed it.
However, when I got back and was waiting outside a few more masses ‘o’ goo came to fruition, and I politely spit 'em out to take a look at 'em: It seems the dissolvable packing they filled my sinuses with is starting to break down, and I think I’m starting to drain out a lot of the old icky goo (the stuff that got me drilled in the first place). I’m also definitely healing up, because the stuff was full of blood. So, is it normal to be hacking up bloody phlegm?
I also quit taking the Vicodin because it wasn’t working worth a damn, and it made me too damn groggy in the morning. If I want a hangover, dammit, I’ll earn one the old fashioned way.
So there ya be. I can walk around, breathe through my nose, and it quit draining. I think tonight I’ll quit wearing that tampon underneath my nose.
Tripler
I am a big mass ‘o’ goo, muscles, and bones.
I just wanted to let you know that your update literally made me gag, which isn’t common. Congratulations.
Sorry/Thanks!
I’m not sure which way to take it. I’ll be less gross next time.
Tripler
Like I said, it was all for the sake of science.
Glad you can breathe, Tripler, even if it was gross. Though intriguing.