My enemy...my sinuses.

For the past two or three years I've had a pretty chronic sinus infection, meaning it never goes away. Between October and the end of November I was on four different rounds of antibiotics, all of which would make my infection go down for about a week and a half and then the headaches would come back. I was fed up with the headaches, being exhausted, and all the antibiotics messing with my body, so I went to see an ENT. (Ear Nose and Throat Doctor)

We have a family history of bad sinus structure, sinus infections aren't hereditary but bone structure is hereditary and that's where my problem comes from. The doctor did a CT scan on my face and said the openings of my sinuses were closed and he thought a balloon surgery would work well for my problem. So Friday I had my surgery, my mama, dad and Kyle were all there waiting for me. The nurses got me prepped, laughed at me for not knowing how to put the booties on, and got me hooked up to an IV. The doctor said my surgery would be about an hour, it ended up lasting closer to three. The balloon surgery only worked on two so they had to cut and scrape the other two. The doctor said my bone structure was very bad and definitely causing bad sinus infections and headaches.

I'm still pretty sore, and have two small black eyes from the blood settling. Most of my pain has been my throat from the breathing tube that they had in while I was out, apparently the tube scrapped up my mouth and throat pretty bad and that's been annoying. But I'm recovering well, not very swollen and you really can't even tell I had surgery. I'm thankful for all the people taking care of me, I'm so lucky! My parents have both woken up in the middle of the night to make me toast and give me my medicine. Kyle has been right next to me for like four days straight almost haha. He makes me smile and laugh, and tells me I'm beautiful even with a big cold sore on my lip and black eye haha. I'm the luckiest girl in the world, no questions asked.

Now I'm just ready to be off my pain medicine, too many episodes of Intervention have made me scared of strong medicine. I should just need it for a few more days, mostly to help my throat heal so I can eat still. I can breathe better already and haven't had a headache in 4 days which is a record! haha.

Hope your week is going well and you're enjoying this beautiful Christmas week! :)