I last wrote early in the morning on Tuesday. Later that day, around 10:30am I started bleeding from my nose. Gushing blood. I lost probably a cup or more of blood in a couple of hours. This estimate is approximate because for a while I was going through wads of paper towels before I ended up leaning over a large measuring cup and letting it drip because…. it wasn’t stopping with the pinching. I couldn’t lean my head back at all because I was drowning in the blood.
Luckily our wonderful babysitter was here. She went and got her mom, who is a practical, lovely woman. The mama took me to the hospital. I stayed there by myself. Want to know how you get priority treatment in an ER? Walk in with a large measuring cup full of blood with more blood rapidly falling into it. My ass didn’t hit a waiting room chair. I walked into triage and then into an exam room. No waiting. The lovely doctor tried a few things and ended up shoving something called “rhino rockets” up my nose. Basically balloons that put pressure on the inside of the nostril to stop bleeding. I was there until 3:30ish. I was barely not bleeding at that point, but I had an appointment with my surgeon at 4:15.
I went to the appointment with my surgeon. He took the rhino rockets out, looked around with a scope and declared he couldn’t see why it happened. He put a different kind of packing into one nostril (not both nostrils like at the hospital) and sent me home.
Around 8pm I started bleeding again. I lost 1/2 a cup of blood in the 15 minutes that Noah tried to call an advice nurse and I said, “Fuck it. We are going back to the hospital Right Now.”
Once again I got VIP treatment in the ER. They are sure nice about blood loss.
The new ER doctor said, “I’m calling a surgeon. Now.”
I think I went into surgery around 10:30? I was completely done and dusted and in a room by 12:30.
The surgeon cauterized an artery in my nose. He put a bunch of dissolvable packing in there too to help seal things up.
I was discharged the next morning. I was told I could go around 7:30. Of course that means it took till 10:30.
I’m home. I feel like warmed over shit. This surgery feels more awful than the original septoplasty in many ways. I’m exhausted. I hurt. I think the flu vaccine as I was leaving didn’t help.
I feel completely horrible.
But I now have a roof on the addition to the house. I’m not dead. I still have a future.
And things plug on.
Oh, yikes! That sounds so scary! I hope everything seals up like it’s supposed to this time.
My fingers are crossed. Not much else I can do besides sit on my butt.
Oh, hey, the bleeding not for fun not on purpose thing doesn’t sound pleasant. Glad you got it taken care of and are better now.
🙂 I’m improving quickly then slowly.
Yikes! Unplanned surgery is even less fun than the regular kind. And the sitting around waiting for discharge paperwork… ugh. I hope you are healing!
I think I’m healing. I’m being boring enough to heal. But my head hurts all the time. Hopefully this fades soon.
I am glad you got that dealt with. I hope the healing goes smoothly from here on out. It is also good to hear you have the roof on your new addition to the house before the rain hits. I hope everything weathers the storm ok. Hugs if you would like them.
I would love your hugs. Yeah… things are boring but less stressful. I should stop complaining. Whine. Whine. Whine. Ok, I haven’t stopped yet.