The Other Side!!!! - Upper, Lower, Genio, etc for OSA

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Greetings all,

Sorry I haven't written, was kind of out of it Wed. thru Sun.; Mon

and Tues. I had too many other things to catch up. When they say

days 3-5 are the worst...believe it, but it's all behind and I feel

better every day!

Had my surgery on Nov. 2nd around 1:00 pm, was in the critical care

unit until Thursday, Nov. 3rd and Doc asked if I wanted to stay (go

to a regular room) or go home. Chose to come home.

Everything went as planned except the fact that I had the worst nose

and sinuses to work around (sinuses are very small, but sinus cavity

is big). The tubes that they put in your nose for your breathing and

your stomach caused some major bleeding in my nose so it took them an

hour to get that squared away (I was of course under).

OS moved my upper ahead 5 mm and up 5 mm, moved bottom out something

like 17 mm, I believe he expanded my upper and put a chin implant in.

Needless to say, went to the OS yesterday and saw the results on xray!

My breathing passage went from 4-5 mm to a whopping 15-17 mm!!!!!

What an amazing before and after xray. Can tell a difference in my

breathing already!! Just wished this nose would heal up.

Getting kind of tired of this liquid diet, but was finally able to

dring through a straw this morning (was using a small food baster

previously).

Actually had some mashed potatoes on Mon., boy I never realized how

much we take eating for granted. Might try scrambled eggs maybe by

Fri/Sat. I'm banded shut with minumum movement, but if I can get

them in the mouth and squish them on the roof of my mouth, I just

might be able to add one more food item to the diet.

I've lost about 5-6 lbs so far, but that's OK, I did my fair share of

eating and gaining pre-op. Right now, just trying to keep a steady

flow of liquids, vitamins and nutrients to heal quickly.

I took pre-op, 1-day post-op and 5-day post-op pics that I will try

to upload as soon as I can...right now I'm going to go take a rest

and apply some heat...been sleeping a little better each night, but

still have bouts of pain in my ears (due to banding) and my right

side still being swollen.

Oh, fyi on the ice...heat dilemna. My OS instructed me to use ice

for the first 48 hours, but definitely heat after that. He said that

ice for too long will cause infections. Which makes sense, because

after you control the amount of swelling, you want the blood to flow

to the area to heal. I notice that when I use the heat...yes I feel

like I puffed up a little, but after about 15 minutes or so it goes

down and I definitely feel better.

Sorry for such a long post, but I wanted to let everyone know how I

was doing.

Thanks for everyone's support!!!!

Sandy

PS - Regarding my son's College Soccer Semi-Finals, unfortunately

they lost 2-1, but my daughter taped most of it (until the battery

died) so I did get to see it. They played an AWESOME game, but 2

yellow cards on one of their guys (which neither one was deserved - I

should send a copy of the tape to the officials) caused them to have

to play one man down for the last 20 min. of the game and couldn't

hang on....Oh, well, they made it that far...the first in a very,

very long time.