I woke up this morning stuffed up as ever and throat is dry
and had a little more pain than yesterday.
I'm pretty sure it's a combination of sleeping in bed and not the
recliner for the first time. I've been running around all day, and haven't
taken any pain killers. Not to mention I
can't keep my hands away from my nose, and I might as well give up on the
"no sniffing" thing, because as much as I try not to, it happens
completely involuntarily.
Today I’ll get this get the splint off (yippeee) and
stitches under my nose removed. I'm going to ask Dr. Jayakumar if I really have
to wait another 3 days to get the moustache dressing taken off. I feel like I'd be just fine to return to
home as soon as this splint is off, tomorrow afternoon even, but then again,
coming back requires me physically lifting and rolling patients, so I don't
want to cause any setbacks to my healing.
I'm just so BORED. I feel like
I'm serving a room custody. I haven't
been since last Tuesday, and I'm usually such an impatient person. Last night I
made an unsuccessful try to go upstairs which this nurdes saw and strictly
warned. I’m NOT allowed to leave this corridor without their permission. And
getting their permission is out of question I know. I'm accustomed to move here and there,
travelling etc, and now I'm watching movies, reading, and sleeping full time.
The splint is gone!!!
About 12.30pm, Dr. Jewel came with her assistant to take
this splint off. i laid back down again
and she cut them first then pulled them out the worst bit is the cutting as she
pinched my skin overtime, not deliberately but accidentally her scissors hit on
my skin. Then she removed that splint with a forceps. This doesn’t hurt me much
just a feeling of rubbing a sharp ended thing slightly. When she took it off, I
really didn't expect the dramatic difference and I was kind of stunned for a
minute. With the splint on, I can't keep
my hands away from my nose, the hanging part of threads was hitting inside and
always a heavy feeling like something pushed inside my nose. I was dying with tooth ache so asked Dr. Jewel
for help, she said she’ll send dentist Dr. George to have a look. I asked about
the cast removal but she said she don’t know anything about that better I ask
with my surgeon.
Dr. Jayakumar appeared almost 2 hours after Dr. Jewel gone.
He said everything looking great and if I wish I could go home and return after
3 days to get this cast off. But I think I should prefer to stay since my home
is sooo far away from this hospital. Evening I ringed Dr. Jeomy and complained
him about the toothache. He suggested gurgle saline water, no need of taking
antibiotics as already I have one twice a day.
Bruising is turning yellow, some red around my eyes but
looking much better. The best news of all is that since this splint off I
finally can breathe out of my nose!!! It's just the tiniest little airway you
can imagine, but for me mentally it makes a huge difference. This is the one
thing i've been waiting for since surgery day. I've started using isotonic
nasal spray and keep taking steam in the nostrils to keep it low. I'm still major
congested, but at least i have a tiny airway that i can breathe through, it
makes things much better and probably won't need steam except at night now. I
had a great bath; i just washed my hair being really careful not to get water
on the cast. I then rinsed my body off in the shower. I feel great after
showering. I am in a totally different place from yesterday. Im starting to
feel like i can start doing some reading now and a bit of light work emails,
before all i wanted to do was sleep and watch anything to distract my mind.
Today’s symptoms:-
- Pain = none, eye sore, slight headache and tooth ache.
- Congestion = heavy but less than day4.
- Bruising = under both eyes turned yellow.
- Swelling = slightly on upper lip, eyes and nose but better than yesterday
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