Sinus Surgery

 

Wednesday, July 24th was the day of Doug's sinus surgery.

He had to not eat or drink anything after midnight on the 23rd.

He is shown here at about 6:30 am for his BEFORE photo. 

This is Doug's first surgery in a hospital setting,
but he has had anesthesia for wisdom teeth removal.
So he was pretty ready to get this show on the road!

We were supposed to be checked in to the Surgery Center by 7:30am with

surgery scheduled at 8:30am.  The surgery, however, did not start until 9:22am.
Doug had great nurses that kept him calm.

Doug had a functional endoscopic sinus surgery to remove the polyps in all 6 of his sinus cavities.

He then had a nasal septoplasty, to correct his deviated septum and hole in his septum.

Nasal splints were placed to keep the nose straight. The splints will be removed in 7 days.

 

The surgery lasted until 10:37am when the doctor came out and told me everything went as planned and that Doug should be able to breathe much better now.

Doug would remain in the PACU for an hour before moving to a lower level of recovery.

Doug was given quite a bit of pain medication in surgery and the first recovery room so had a little difficulty waking up.  He would spend the next two hours in this recovery room.

He did have a little nausea, but was given Zofran for that and he was able to walk around the unit.

 

 

Post surgery, has gone better than I expected. The nose is painful but he only needed strong pain medication for the first 24 hours, and has been on Tylenol since then. 

He has had a little bit of a cold during this...this is not cool - when you can't blow your nose.

 

Wednesday, July 31st is his follow-up appt and he will have the nasal splints removed.

He is already noticing he can smell things he hadn't smelled before so that is good.

Thanks for all the calls and emails checking on him.