Fixed!

Am I sexy or what?!

That was the evening following my surgery. Aside from the puffy eyes and slightly swollen face, I wasn't in tooooo bad of shape. I had to wear that "moustache dressing" for 4 days. Isla did not like seeing her mama with such a funny thing taped to her face. I mainly stayed in bed Thursday-Sunday and avoided contact with the world. I felt like I had the world's worst sinus infection. My head was so stuffy and it was constantly throbbing. The pressure behind my eyes and ears was so uncomfortable. I mainly laid in bed, in a dark room, sometimes with the music on low. TV hurt my eyes after an hour or so, and normal lights did as well. I couldn't focus on anything for more than 15 minutes. I couldn't even read! I was very bored and restless. I had a bad reaction to the first antibiotics I was given and got some lovely stomach issues on top of everything else! And the first pain meds prescribed to me I wasn't allowed to take because they didn't go well with my anxiety meds...so I was only taking Tylenol which was pretty much crap. I didn't actually get my good pain meds until Monday...and by then I didn't really need them. JIP! I do like me some vicodin though :) Although, I swear it makes me paranoid. So I've taken them at night to get some good sleep, but I've been convinced that my heart is going to explode or that I am going to choke on my own bloody mucus that constantly drains down my throat. Yes, I know that is super gross. I've been spitting huge wads of blood lately. My nose is still stuffy and I can't blow it yet. Plus I still have dissolving gel packs in my nose that should be close to gone. The drainage has been nasty and has given me a really questionable stomach. And probably bad breath. I think possibly the only thing that is grosser than the drainage is that I wore the same jammies for 3 1/2 days straight. I didn't even attempt to shower until Sunday night. You should have seen my armpit hair... I can't even imagine how I smelled! Eeewwies!

All in all...I'm happy I had the surgery. I really wish I would have been in more pain and had less sinus pressure though. The whole foggy head thing really sucked. I barely hung out with my kid those 4 days because her squealing and belly laughs made my head feel like a ticking time bomb.

I see my doctor today and I am hoping that everything is healing normally! There is a chance the polyps can grow back in the future and cause some blockage again. I'm hoping since now my septum is straight, that I'll at still be able to breathe better even if the polyps do return.

Yay for surgery! I can't wait to breathe out of my nose.