For as long as I can remember I have suffered from horrible allergy and sinus problems. And when I say suffer, I mean it. After a while I just dealt with it and did what I could to manage the issues. Finally Shaun made me an appointment with an ENT that came recommended to him and the rest is history.

It was discovered that I had a badly deviated septum on my left side, blocking 95% of my sinus passage and polyps on the right blocking nearly 80% of my sinus passage. The only course of action at this point was surgery. So after a CT scan, some blood work and some fighting with our insurance over the absurd, I was scheduled for surgery. On December 5th I went in for outpatient surgery to have the septum repaired, the polyps removed and my sinuses roto rootered. Surgery went very well and even discovered a large cyst in the sinus behind my eye which was removed and biopsied. Its not cancerous, thank goodness but it probably explained the sharp pain in my eye when my sinuses were very full, which was often.

I am recovering well and the swelling is pretty minimal. I had to wear a funny little nose sling filled with gauze as my nose would bleed consistently but that has stopped and I am free of it. There are drainage tubes inside my nose, which creates most of the swelling that you can see. Those should be removed this week on Tuesday! Even though I am not supposed to breathe through my nose, I can feel a difference already. Cant wait to get the tubes out and see what happens!