Recovery Day 6

Well, all is well in septoplasty world except for the giant bruise that's decided to pop up from the IV that was in my hand. I have my appointment in a couple days to remove all the random bits and pieces. Splits, any thing else they may have forgotten..

I've noticed how short of breath I've been getting though. Today I was on the phone to the TAC and later to one of my co-workers, and had to catch my breath as I spoke. And also tonight J and I took the boys around the dog park *crutchless!!* and I was seriously breathless on the third lap. I feel like a smoker again...

Anyway. That's all for now...
xo

Recovery Day 5

Today was my first day out in what feels like years.

I went (without my crutches) with J to Mitre 10, Kiwi Koncern, got a pie and then headed to the nursery to pick up a couple seedlings and to the market for groceries.. Came home and I basically passed out on the couch. Exhausted. I never knew such simple things could really take it out of me.

My nose is looking ok. I have noticed the swelling go down a lot, and Thursday I go in to have the surgeon look it all over. Hopefully after that, I’ll have a bit better time with it all. I hate not being able to smell or taste or anything. I love food. I miss it.

I had a lovely time it all up yesterday. Grossest thing ever… cotton swabs, saline and ewwwww. I won’t go into details…

Tomorrow morning, I head to my GP to have my knee looked at. So hopefully, nothing too awful there. I’ll probably be heading to physio again on a regular basis, but it should be covered, or at least reimbursed by TAC. Fingers crossed.

So anywho, at the nursery, we ended up leaving with seedlings, a fern tree, a new feijoa, and a bay tree. Yeah. Wasn’t expecting that! But all good. J planted everything when we got back. The seedlings are in the aquaponics system, which I think he’s got nailed down now! Well, except for the fish… no fishy-fish as of yet. He has the watering system on a timer, so this will be the first week it will be totally up and running. So happy! Can’t wait to see how it all works!

Anywho, I hope everyone had a good and safe weekend!!

xo

Recovery Day 3

The packs in my nose are dissolving.

Hideous. Just absolutely disturbing.

I desperately want to blow my nose. And the best part??? The right side – aka the side I could breathe out of is breaking down first. After all this and I still have yet to breathe out of my left side… sigh* I’m sure it will improve. But you know me, too damn impatient.

The headaches are getting to be only slightly less annoying. I still have to pop a good four Panadol a day, along with the antibiotics, and my regular meds.

But something good – because I can barely taste anything, I’ve cut a lot of the sugar and salt out of my diet. Not to mention, I haven’t drank any alcohol. What’s the fun of drinking wine, cider, beer or port if you can’t even taste it?? Well, hold on.. I know the answer to that. But you know what I mean.

Fingers crossed I’ll be good to leave the house for a short time tomorrow to do some grocery shopping and maybe go with the boys to the park if it’s nice enough.

Sorry for the boring as posts. This is what happens when I'm house-bound...

xoxo

Recovery Day 2

I know I should probably be more sleepy than I am. And I know by the end of my two weeks, I’ll be going something fierce along the lines of stir-crazy. But hey, who can argue with wanting to get a couple loads of laundry done and some vacuuming.. It’s not all bad.

Anyway. From what seems to be a successful septoplasty and turbinate reduction surgery, everything is going pretty normal. My face is a lovely amount of swollen, my eyes have NOT gone black and blue yet, fingers crossed they won’t. My nose is like a dripping faucet, a combination of blood and whatever else has decided to join it’s presence. I know. Gross. It feels like I have a really really bad head cold. It’s weird and extremely hard to stop myself from blowing my nose. Or sniffing. Or anything.

The headaches I can do without. It’s like I’ve had a hangover for the past two days now. Headaches, slightly on the migraine side of it. Light is tricky, sounds need to be low. But my ears feel plugged up at the same time. Oh the dilemmas.

J notice last night, that my nose is slightly straighter. Which is kind of cool. Once the swelling goes down, it will probably be more noticeable, but to see it already is pretty funny. My nose was always just sort of smooched to one side. Which of course was part of the problem – ya know – breathing and all…

Anyway. As I am starting to figure out, the screen on my computer can only be dealt with in small doses, that is my cue to get some more Panadol and juice.

Thanks everyone who has been keeping me in their thoughts!!! 

I can’t even begin to thank you all!

xoxo

*septoplasty, here I come

It's all happening. It's now officially a countdown until I go in for surgery. Yuck!!!

I've had sinus and breathing problems for ages and ages. To the point where I can only breath out of one side of the nose. And poor J has to put up with the horrible sounds and gasping for breath in the middle of the night. Apparently, I snore like a banshee! ;)

My nose won't look much different, except for the massive amounts of swelling for a couple weeks, but I'm not concerned about the way I look. I've lived with a crooked nose for 30 plus years. I just can't wait to be able to take proper deep breaths!! Really excited actually!

From looking at my CAT scans I had done a few months back, I think my nose is even more crooked than the diagram. Fantastic.

Can't wait, but nervous as!

Also, I just want to say thank you who has kept my Grampa in their thoughts as well. He has had to undergo open heart surgery in the last week, but he is home! And doing fabulous!

It's so hard to be this far away from the family sometimes. Especially in these sort of situations. I'm just thankful my family was able to be close and on the texting and keep us up to date down here! Thanks Mom!!

Anyway, on a lighter note - more creative note...

I'm working on a couple new drawings. There is a rather interesting story behind them, of course... Think true loves lost, widows waiting for their beloved sailors out at sea, think of cold and light fingers touching the back of your neck ever so gently.... Yeah. Something like that!!!  Can't wait to share - but I must be patient!

That is all for now - but remember who you are!
xo