Re: Please pray for me

[Guest guest]

Dear J,

You will be in my thoughts and prayers as you go for your surgery. I know God

will be with you to provide healing, hope and restored quality of life. Be of

good cheer, you will have a lot of prayer support from this board, and God

DOES answer prayers. :-)

Sometimes the waiting for things is the hardest part, so try to remember to

breathe deeply this day and try to focus on how you'll be feeling better after

you are finished tomorrow. God bless and keep you,

[Guest guest]

My husband had sinus surgery a few months ago. First let me say that he had

a BAD case of polyps and his experience was probably extreme.

Here are a few things we learned from the experience.

My sister got him one of those eye packs that you put in the refrigerator to

cool. He said that helped immensely for the pain and swelling. I think she

got hers at Bath and Body Works. You might want to get 2 if you can afford

it and switch them out. I don't know how many people you live with, but we

ended up sending our kids off with Grandma and Grandpa for a few days.

You'll probably want quiet. Noise hurt his head very badly. (Drs. tell you

you'll have mild discomfort. This may be, but we didn't expect a headache

like this. Which actually makes sense. Think about your worst sinus

infection...that's what said it felt like.)

The best thing to do is to sleep as much as possible. The dr.s did give him

good painkillers. Speaking of drs. Because it's day surgery, these

heartless people expect you to get up and get out. At least they did with

my husband. So I recommend you have somebody with you who can go to the mat

for you and tell these pushy nurses that NO, you are not ready to jump out

of bed and go home right away. Also, they wanted my husband to eat crackers

before he could leave, but they didn't give him anything to drink. Whoever

goes with you should make sure they give you a sprite or something FIRST,

then crackers, because your throat will be really dry and sore. Also,

insist on a wheelchair when they make you leave. The nurse offered to take

my husband outside while I got the car and they made him walk. He said he

was terrified he would fall down and break something.

I don't mean to scare you. Like I said, had a bad case. The surgery

lasted much longer than they expected, he had a hard time coming out of

anesthesia, etc. BUT surgery is still surgery and the way they do this day

surgery really aggravates me. Take your time at the hospital. Have someone

there who will help you and insist you get what you need. And don't walk to

your car!! )))

Hope this helps.

Kristi

PS. Just a note....you will NOT be able to return to work the following

day, as my silly husband thought. He ended up taking 3 days off + the

weekend.

Also, his eyes and head hurt too much to watch TV, but my sister had given

him a CD/Book on tape...he said that was good for distracting him about the

pain.

Please pray for me

> Good Morning Everyone!!

> I hope everyone is doing well. I hate to ask you but I was wondering

> if you could take a moment to pray for me. On Wednesday I go in for

> Sinus surgery and I'm scared to death!! This surgery is a result of

> my orbital decompression that I had a few months ago.... my sinus'

> have been a mess ever since and I have so much pressure on my teeth

> its making me crazy. While they are in there doing the sinus surgery

> they are going to try and decompress my left eye a bit more.

> Has anyone else had sinus surgery?? Just wondering what the recover

> is like.....

> It would mean the world to me if you could pray for me!!!

> Thank you so much.

> Hugs,

> J

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