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Jul

Insomnia Week

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Here’s the septoplasty update. My nose seems to have completely healed, but there are some post-operative swellings that refuse to die down.  I believe the technical term is “edema”. In any case, they must be dealt with, and so the surgeon’s prescribed all manner of pills and nasal sprays. The side-effect: insomnia! Sleeping at 3 [...]

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May

Septoplasty Update

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I’m back from the checkup at the surgeon’s. He castigated me for not hydrating my nose with the prescribed saline solution, but in all fairness, I wasn’t exactly eager to shove hot salt water up my nose in the hours following my surgery. In any case, I have to do it now to dissolve the [...]

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May

Septoplasty

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Last week, on May 6th, to be precise, I underwent a septoplasty. This post will chronicle some of my experiences in the hope that it might help people with questions about the procedure, espeically if they are about to undergo it themselves. Last Feb, the specialist diagnosed my chronic sinusitis as being caused by a [...]

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