Nose Job - TR

Ever since I can remember I've had respiratory problems, mostly involving my nose/sinuses/etc. Some years have been better, others have been not so great. The past 3 years have been an ever increasing hell. I've had a constant headache, can't concentrate, get sick for weeks instead of days... Well finally, thanks to lph, I found a great doc. Took a CT a month or so ago and it turns out that I had a severely deviated septum.

I don't know how it happened. Perhaps I was born with it, or it was that time I jumped the pool fence and landed on my face, or when I ran headfirst into the parking meter after seeing Chariots of Fire, or the time 20 guys jumped me...

In any case, I couldn't take it anymore so I went under the knife on Thursday. Yes, I went in for a septoplasty...the number one excuse to get insurance coverage for a nose job. So I've been telling everyone I'm just getting a nose job. :D Frankly, I love my handsome Roman nose. But what good is something you can't breathe through. So I went for broke and got the most practical nose possible...

http://www.cinekolossal.com/star/m_n...in/martin4.jpg

What do you think? Did I make a mistake? Should I have gotten this instead?

http://news.softpedia.com/images/new...Birthday-2.jpg


Thankfully, they didn't change a thing. It was all internal.

Are you sure it wasnt just your swarthy moustache that got in the way of your breathing?

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Originally Posted by Core Shot

Are you sure it wasnt just your swarthy moustache that got in the way of your breathing?

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No, that acted more like a filter.

GOD FUCKING DAMNIT!!!! I WANT TO BLOW MY NOSE SO GOD DAMN BAD RIGHT NOW!!!! FUUUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!

It's like having an itch under a cast and not being able to scratch it.

I dunno, Arty. Daryl Hannah's nose strikes me as being just a little too effeminate...even for you.

Next day she was back at the office. The two casts were there on his
desk, side by side. "I'm twins," she giggled. Schoenmaker reached out
and snapped the plaster nose from one of the masks.

"Now," he smiled; producing like a magician a lump of modeling clay
with which he replaced the broken off nose. "What sort of nose did
you have in mind?"

HOLY
FUCKING
SHIT!!!!

I
CAN
BREATHE!!!!

My entire life, I've had respiratory problems. When I was a kid, I had sinusitis and asthma. The asthma went away after high school as did the sinusitis. But about 3 years ago, my nose got really really bad again. Worse than ever before. On good days, I could only breathe out of my right nostril. On bad days, it was rough to breathe out of either. My sinuses wouldn't drain, and when I'd get sick I'd stay sick for over a week. Basically, I was in hell.

Well today I had the splints taken out from my surgery, and I took the deepest breath I've ever taken in my life. And then I went to pilates and discovered just how rad this is gonna be.

Many thanks to lph for the ENT doctor recommendation. If I had never seen Dr. Manoukian, I would probably be wallowing in misery for the rest of my life. He did an amazing job fixing up my nose and I'm so friggen' stoked to be able to breathe like this. What's really scary is that I'm not even 100% yet.

I'm so friggen' happy.

I just love a happy ending. Go git some [air], Arty!!!

Shit, how are we going to keep up with him on the skintrack now?

Congrats, not being able to breath sucks.

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Originally Posted by Telenater

Shit, how are we going to keep up with him on the skintrack now?

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Oh, I won't be going any faster. I just won't be scaring everyone in the group and chasing away wildlife with my hacking and coughing.

damn...but will we know where you are now?

:D

kidding buddy.....that's sounds (no pun intended) awesome :)

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Originally Posted by Arty50

HOLY
FUCKING
SHIT!!!!

I
CAN
BREATHE!!!!

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Thanksgiving. For some its a turkey, for others a nose.