Megan's Surgery

So for some of you this might not be something you want to know about but I am writing it down so that I can always remember my experience. On September 3rd I had Dr. Walker fix my deviated septum. When I was 5 years old I was twirling around on a Sunday afternoon with my brothers from couch to couch and got dizzy and fell. Of course my nose hit right on the end of the couch and my nose broke. The doctor never corrected the brake and just let it heal which made the middle bone and cartilage of my nose crooked. I have been unable for 20 years to breathe out of one side of my nose. So now that we're in the Air Force and they would fix it for free I figured why not? I have never had surgery before or been knocked out so I was a little nervous but everything went really well. The surgery took about 2 hours and then an hour in recovery and I came home. I must say thank you to my friend Aimee for watching the girls! It was a huge help not worrying about them. They removed the crooked bones and moved some of the cartilage and then put splints in each nostral to stabalize it all with some stiches. As you can see in the picture the splints were big and uncomfortable but I had them taken out on Tuesday so I could finally breathe out of my nose. I had to wear the gauze dripp pad until tuesday as well from constant blood and mucus drainage(sorry probably TMI) Today is Wednesday and I am finally feeling mostly back to normal. My nose is still very tender and I still have stiches in my nose but other than that it just feels like I have a sinus infection. The worst part about all of this was I had an allergic reaction to the medicine they gave me and the first night I was up itching everywhere and then the next day was throwing up and felt nauseous for the next 4 days. I couldn't keep anything down so that was not fun! Anways it was definately worth it all. My actual nose does not look any different.



This is when I am 5 years old and had broken my nose.

Before surgery I was feeling pretty good.


After surgery not feeling so great. I was really groggy.


Such a stylish thing isn't it? Yeah this is was I looked like for the next 5 days!


The girls were very worried about me and especially Adalyn didn't want to leave my side because she was "taking care of me"


Not a pretty picture but if you look you can see my splints in my nose.


3 days after surgery. My nose was swolen and I looked HORRIBLE!!!


That was one of the splints in my nose. Yikes!