Nose Surgery

The month of January, I encouraged Kevin to attend Ear, Nose, & Throat Doctor to check with his nose situation. Kevin had difficulty breathing through one side of his nose and believed his nose septum was not straight. Kevin met with doctor and had x-ray and scan for sinus. Luckily, he didn't have sinus problems. That was a relief because if he had sinus issues from the scan, then he couldn't be able to get his nose fixed up because sinus issues can cause infection after he had lasik eye surgery in December. However, his nose x-ray showed that his septum was not in right place and needed surgery to fix it. Kevin was scheduled to have surgery at the end of January.

Two weeks ago in the morning, Daddy, Gabriella, and I went to the Pre-operation area at the First Hill Swedish Hospital for his nose surgery appointment at noon. The nurse transported Daddy to the surgery room while Gabriella and I waited in the waiting room for about four hours. During the waiting room, several people loved to see Gabriella about how adorable and happy she is. They approached us and talked to Gabriella. It had been a long day for me and Gabriella. Daddy's surgery was taking about an hour and then they took him to the recovery room for another hour. After waiting for two hours, the nurse was supposed to come to get us so we would go to see Daddy. Unfortunately, we had been waiting for other two hours. We were wondering why took so long until found out that Daddy had difficult with low oxygen in recovery room. That was why we waited that long. After four hours, the nurse finally called us and took us to the recovery room to see Daddy. He was doing great. Surprisingly, I didn't see any bad bruises or even swelling on his face!! He had no pain from his nose because he was on medicine. That was good!

After Daddy recovered, they discharged him the same day. We all were looking forward to going home in the early evening. I was his "nurse" to change the pads for his nose until his nose bleeding stopped. However, I put air mattress up in living room so that Daddy could lie down and listen to television while he put an ice packet on his face. Also, we slept separately for a few days because I didn't want to punch or hit his nose accidentally during night.




So far, his nose is almost fully healed and is still stuffed up. Last Thursday, Daddy had E.N.T. Doctor appointment for nose check up. Doctor said that his nose was great and pulled out some dry blood and boogers out of his nose where it was hard to reach. After he took them out, Daddy could breath easily. Doctor said that it would stuff up again but it was normal. It will take about two weeks to a month for it to heal before it becomes normal and he is able to breath better. Again, he has E.N.T. doctor appointment for his nose second check-up in two weeks.