consider me an ancient egyptian.

Where do you suppose doctors get their information on how someone’s treatment and/or recovery will go? Formstack follow-up survey? Grey’s Anatomy? (Or Gray’s Anatomy, for that matter?) Trial and error? General guessing? I’ve already blown the lid on how sinus surgeries go (in short: very, very painfully) – and at my follow-up appointment today, Dr. ENT was super surprised … Continue reading »

that time they vacuumed my nose off.

Yesterday, I went through endoscopic sinus surgery, bilateral endoscopic ethmoidectomies, middle meatal antrostomies, sphenoidotomies, bilateral endoscopic frontal explorations with possible tissue removal, bilateral inferior turbinate reductions and septoplasty. If you understand what any of that means minus “endoscopic sinus surgery” and don’t have any kind of medical-oriented degree (or cheated/Googled), color me super impressed. In … Continue reading »