Quick Note: I’m sharing this based on my personal experience and research, but I’m not a medical professional. This post is for informational purposes only and isn’t medical advice. You can find my full medical disclaimer at the bottom of this page.
Just a quick update for today. I really don’t have enough brain cells available for more than that. Not to mention that if I quit dabbing my nose for much more than two seconds, it just starts dripping down my face. Yesterday was my surgery. Although labeled dental in nature, it really crossed the border into medical in my mind. I had to have part of a tooth root removed and sealed as well as having some infected tissues removed and whatever they had to do to my jaw to purge it of the infection. The procedure was supposed to take only an hour but ended up taking two due to the extensiveness of the infection. Then about ten stitches later they had me on my feet and on my way home.
Yesterday wasn’t too bad. I made it home. Ate some pudding. Watched some tv and took some Ibuprofen. Woke up in the night with a headache that was trying to crawl it’s way towards a migraine. I didn’t even play games with that. I took my Maxalt and a motion sickness pill and went back to bed. Felt reasonably ok when I first got up this morning. Swollen and sore but bearable. But then, it was like my body woke up to the realization that something had happened to it. Next thing I knew, full blown sinus attack. Nasal draining, itchy and watery eyes, sneezing and a feeling of internal hives crawling up inside of my face from the site of the surgery. I think I’ve gone through over a box of tissues at this point. So far it’s been almost seven hours and despite throwing antihistamines and nasal sprays at it and even taking my Dupixent a few days early, there still seems to be no end in sight.
The hardest part though, is the feeling of being transported back through time to the years when I felt like this, worse than this actually, on a nearly daily basis. Feeling this way again just drug me back and has left me struggling with the feeling of overwhelm and terror at ever feeling that way again. No matter how many times I tell myself that I just have to hold on a little longer, it is still nearly unbearable.
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