Let the `’Light Shine

For far too long, I have had migraines, and for far too long I’ve been trying to tell the doctors that it is somehow tied to my nose.  First I get a really upset nose - I used to think it was sinus, but it was congestion - then it presses really hard on my right eye, and then the migraine ensues.

I was laughed at, some doctors thought I was hypochondriac, another took X-rays and said we have to fix that devieated septum.   see, as a child, I always insisted in partaking in every outside sport and game available at school, soccer with the boys before school, netball after school in organised teams, softball, running, everything I could play in that didn’t have conflicting schedules.  Notice all the ball sports?  And then consider a kid with one of the worst hand-eye coordinations you can imagine, and put this kid, with that combination on the softball field standing with a glove held high, eyes towards the sky, just waiting for that ball to come down.  It almost never occured to me to move my glove slightly so that for a moment I wouldn’t actually see the ball, but catch it, and so ended up with a lot of balls caught by my nose.  This was also true for netball, there too I would get stunned like a deer in front of headlights and end up catching the ball with my nose.  Hence the deviated septum. There is just so much abuse any body part is expected to endure without being crippled.

But this is not about how I catch balls, this is about my nose.  Finally 20 years later, I went to an ENT surgeon and said I have to have to have to get off any medications related to sinus, nasal congestion and particularly painkillers.  And all of those I take as a result of nasal congestion.  He took a look, sent me for a CT Scan - oh the pictures are so pretty, and they burn it on a CD with a software that lets you drag it and you get a little movie of your skull in thin slices.  It’s SO amazing!

So I came back and his prognosis was this.  He would break my nose, then burn it.  ahahha . no not really, I just think it sounds good like that.  The choices were to break/fix the septum, and / or to burn the turbinates - those parts in the nose that swell up from allergies and when you sleep to let you know to turn on the other side.  Burning them accomplishes this:  It creates scar tissue under the surface, and scar tussue is scar tissue, it does not swell up. so Badaaaammmmm. drumroll, no more swelling!

That is the option I chose.  Yesterday morning we burnt my turbinates and now I’m in a good healing process.  I slept so well last night.  and funny thing is, my nose doesn’t hurt, and it doesn’t even feel more uncomfortable than any other day prior to the procedure!  Just goes to show in what a sorry state my nose is, that after a surgery I don’t feel a difference when it is swolen up!

I won’t be able to go riding the Fazer , or my own Suzi for a few weeks, because wind does hurt. funny istn’ it ?