Throw back information about surgery and after surgery

Hello, I wanted to post some pictures that I found. I wish that i had posted these the day of, but there was a lot going on. There are so many things I remember about recovery now.

1. Vertigo on about the fourth and fifth day after surgery. I was laying in bed on an incline trying to get some sleep. I closed my eyes when all of the sudden the room started spinning. I jumped out of bed because I felt like I was going to vomit. I could not go back to sleep for hours, it was awful because I was so tired and all I wanted to do was sleep, but being dizzy is the worst. I called my surgeon the next day and he told me this was normal and shouldn't last too long. He let me know that they do some tapping during the surgery, and that will sometimes cause some imbalance to the equilibrium. It lasted a day and a half.

2. Blood clots in the nose. When they do the surgery, there is obviously a lot of blood that will come up through the nasal passages. Although I didn't experience a bloody nose through recovery, I did however, have huge blood clots trapped way up my nose. Dr. Bell told me not to blow my nose, so I got a flashlight and looked up there. I saw the clots, they were super hard, pretty much mucus and blood, just hardened. I took some tweezers and gently pulled these huge hard clots out. You have no idea how satisfying it was, and how much better I could breathe after that. Gross, but that's the reality of it.

3. Spitting up blood. Every time I brushed my teeth or rinsed my mouth out, blood would be in the sink. I would sort of clear my throat and spit, and blood would come out.  I know that it was just old blood from the back of my throat, and also some that most likely caught in my expander, and incisions.

This was 8 days after surgery, I was so swollen! By the way, check out the message Dr. Bell has on his white board.

8 hours after the surgery

Day of surgery

Day before surgery, getting my expander in.