It was just over a year ago when Michael and I made an early morning drive up to Tacoma for a little heart ablation action. That experience was not, to put it mildly, his favorite day ever. Aside from the anesthesia fun, his leg "burped" out blood and got an extra 40 minutes in the recovery room as they convinced his body to clot at the catheter site. Michael was a champ through it all, but it was rough.
Fast forward to this spring when the ENT showed us a CT scan of his nose and pronounced his septum extremely deviated. Oh, and they have a surgery for that. At first, Michael was opposed to the idea. However, the thought that he could breathe through both sides of his nose and the subsequent benefit to his crosscountry PR times won him over.
Once he was on board, the trick was finding a date the ENT had available and that didn't interfere (much) with Michael's numerous extracurriculars and the end of the school year festivities. We settled on the Wednesday right in between the end of the school year and the beginning of summer school. Unforunately the date still conflicts with the crosscountry pre-season training (yes, it's a thing) and he'll have to pause his weightlifting routine, but you do what you can with what you've got.
This morning found us checked in and chilling in the waiting room. One of us had eaten breakfast, the other spent a lot of time discussing food options for after the surgery.
Intially he had big plans involving Pizza Hut. The anesthesiologist was skeptical that he'd feel that way later, but cleared him if he wanted it.
He was less interested in that option after the procedure. It was a quick one (about 30 minutes) and there are no hilarious stories about him coming out of the anesthesia, but he was feeling woozy and his throat was sore from the intubation tube.
In the end, we settled on a Blizzard with a dose of Tylenol and Vicodin for good measure. With the post-op swelling settling in, he likely won't experience the full benefits of the surgery until next week but the ENT said everything went well.
Later I told him that he needs to have his wisdom teeth removed but we'll do that next year because I think he should only have one surgery a year.
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