Keep track of your health (or why I've been gone a week)

[lawrocket 3]

Hi, Michele. I thought I'd be like you here.
I owe my fiancee a lot. Mainly, I owe her for finally getting me to treat my persistent sinus problem - to "take care of" myself. Asshole that I am, I reckoned I'd just live with it till she made it clear that a particular someone is very cross and "grossed out" by the sounds my nose makes.

I had surgery on Monday morning to fix my deviated septum and drain my sinus infection. The good surgeon discovered that the reason why treatment did not work these past couple of years was that soft tissue had grown over the last several years to fill the entire sinus. Due to its extreme size, it was necrotic, and took an appearance of something that was not a polyp.

The next day, when pressed for specifics on what he was saying, he listed off several types of cancer that were the leading suspects. Of course, my fiancee was with me, which was a frightening thing.

Thursday afternoon, I received a phone call asking to hold for the doctor. "Oh my fucking God" was silently muttered until he told me that there was no malignancy, and he'd see me in a couple of days.

The point: my case was very extreme. There is no reason whatsoever I should have let this go on for as long as I have. Because of that, I've been in the worst pain I have ever felt for the last week.

I've worried about cancer and other grotesqueries. I've had a procedure that was FAR more severe and extensive than it ever had to be because I thought I could just live with it, and I thought that my original doctor knew what he was doing.

Most heartbreaking, I've involved the comfort and fears of someone whom I love and adore. I thought I could handle these problems. SHe shouldn't have to.

You have a nagging injury? Do something about it. Steady back pain? Go to a doctor. Toothache? Fix it. Despite my current pain, I now know for the first time how it feels to breathe properly through my right nostril.

And, my lovely lady can soon be around me without being grossed out.

Michele: I wouldn't be saying this stuff if not for your openness about your issues. Well, something as seemingly minor as a sinus infection can be a helluva lot more than that. And this agony will be worth it in the coming months.

btw: it looks like I missed out on a lot of stuff going on here. It was well worth it.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[Michele 1]

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Michele: I wouldn't be saying this stuff if not for your openness about your issues. Well, something as seemingly minor as a sinus infection can be a helluva lot more than that.

So glad you had no malignancy. And I love the word "grotesqueries." I shall file that and use it sometime!

And, Jerry, thank you for that. Sometimes I've wondered what on earth has possessed me to write all this so very personal stuff up and post it...and then I get a note like this, and realize why....

Good to know you got it handled. And people, if you have an issue, go get it checked. Please.

Many hgus to you, and tell your lady I say hello! And give her a big hug from me.

Ciels-
Michele

~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek
While our hearts lie bleeding?~

[kai2k1 0]

Thanks for posting this lawrocket. Michele's openness is the reasion that i had my procedure done. Good luck with your recovery.

There's no truer sense of flying than sky diving," Scott Cowan

[JeNnEjEnN 0]

Crazy..I had the EXACT same thing. 6 years ago. It took 3 doctors and over a year of sinus pain/infections/antiboitics...etc. before any of them could figure it out. Turns out I had a non-malignant tumor/polyp so big it filled up my entire sinus (only one side was affected) and hung down my throat (golf ball sized)! Gross huh? Still have no reason why I got it, so who knows if it will happen again, but I have yet to ever get a stuffy nose no matter how sick I get now. That's pretty cool... guess they must have removed a lot?!

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