i have perhaps reverted back to the state of things long before i knew that Anosmia wasnt forgetting things when you hit your head.\u00a0 That place where i spent more than 30 years as an organism that could faithfully interpret information from the nose & the mouth.\u00a0 Its an easy place to fall back into.\u00a0 Its precisely where smell & taste work their magic: where you dont notice them until they’re absent.<\/p>\n
A month & change post-op.\u00a0 5 weekly appointments with Dr Rust.\u00a0 Each less grizzly then the last.\u00a0 Each with me leaving having heard that i am healing beautifully, that he could park a car up there, and that no, i cannot resume swimming laps.\u00a0 Regardless of how well i am healing, its too early to speculate let alone start asking questions about my sense of smell or the return of the bastard polyps.<\/p>\n
I did have a touch of an infection up there 3 weeks ago, which Dr Rust said was not only mild, but totally expected in the weeks & months following such surgery.\u00a0 So after a quick taper of Prednisone & 14+ days of antibiotics, OF COURSE i can smell & taste.\u00a0 That always happens when i shove those two drugs up me.\u00a0 So its double-down tentative to take stock in how well i can smell these past few weeks.\u00a0 For inside of 1-2 more weeks, i could be back to 10%.\u00a0 So day by day.\u00a0 I’m enjoying what i can while i can.\u00a0 Changing a diaper when i squeal in delight cause i can smell it from across the room.\u00a0 Dragging 2-fingers under my nose after pumping gas.\u00a0 And being San Francisco, smelling delightfully kind weed being smoked quite near-by on my walk to the ferry in the afternoons.<\/p>\n
Pretty much, for the past 2-3 weeks, everything smells & tastes like they did on this day<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Per doctors orders, i’ve continued the nasal rinses.\u00a0 But they’re horribly disappointing just now, arent they?\u00a0 No more debris. No more clottia. Just the same damned saltwater i’ve just mixed & squirted up there.\u00a0 On an interesting note however, is how much of that rinse gets up into the difficult sinuses it never reached before.\u00a0 After each bottle, after i stop dripping then blow, i can get a full 1\/2-ounce more simply by bending over for 10 seconds so the cavities can drain.\u00a0 I then can smile at people for the next 30 minutes as fast-dropping dribbles can unexpectedly evacuate my new nose.<\/p>\n Of all the things the past 5 weeks have given me, i would say the best has been the mornings.\u00a0 Once i would wake up and not know which direction my nose would go that day.\u00a0 If it started compacted, i was doomed to that fate all day.\u00a0 If it was oddly clogged, i might have a chance of breathing well from at least one of the pipes.\u00a0 Either way, mornings sounded like audio feeds from a rendering plant, with matching discharges into the shower or 12+ kleenex blows before i left the house.\u00a0 i now wake up with both barrels bored-out and free of matter.\u00a0 Which isnt to say that the shape or architecture of my sinuses are in a fixed position.\u00a0 Because from one morning to the next, the air-flow is simply different up there.\u00a0 Its either going to be something i can feel or something i can hear.\u00a0 But either way, its clear and mostly dry.\u00a0 Which is a dream.<\/p>\n I have moved from 1x weekly appointments with Dr Rust to every other week, with my next on Tuesday 5\/19,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" i have perhaps reverted back to the state of things long before i knew that Anosmia wasnt forgetting things when you hit your head.\u00a0 That place where i spent more than 30 years as an organism that could faithfully interpret information from the nose & the mouth.\u00a0 Its an easy place to fall back into.\u00a0 … Continue reading D-DAY +30<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9,154,169,171,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}