I had my routine check up with my GP [general practitioner] today, and I continue to like him a lot. [Side note: I am capable of learning from other's mistakes and brought my Kindle. Good thing, too, as I had an hour wait due to flu season.] I have no real health complaints, I'm fit and hale, my BP is textbook, yadda yadda, and as we're wrapping things up, he asks, "Anything bugging you that you forgot about?"
"You know, I've only been able to breathe out of one side of my nose since I was a kid. I always thought that was normal. ...it's not, is it?"
"Uh, no." [shines light up my schnoz makes note] "Yeah, you have a deviated septum, pretty severe, actually. Wanna have surgery?"
"Yeah - I mean, should I?"
"Is it affecting your quality of life?"
I thought for a second, then went in for a penny and a pound. "I have a hard time making out with the Mister because I can't breathe out of one side - my kissing side."
He laughed and asked if that was important enough for surgery. !!!!
"Doc. Make outs are totally a quality of life issue."
He scheduled a CT and an appointment with an ENT to get this checked out. HEE. Who on earth could doubt the importance of make outs?!? Before I get "concerned comments about being heedless/slap-dash with surgery, I have issues breathing, always have, and hey! Let's fix that if we can, yes? And the bonus is the new Euro-Extended Make Out Stoney Remix! \o/
ION: I found last night's ep of Big Love to be incredibly disturbing. I also am 100% convinced that Gennifer what's her butt [Margene] is a one-note actress and she's getting on my last damn nerve. The dancing? Good lord.
"You know, I've only been able to breathe out of one side of my nose since I was a kid. I always thought that was normal. ...it's not, is it?"
"Uh, no." [shines light up my schnoz makes note] "Yeah, you have a deviated septum, pretty severe, actually. Wanna have surgery?"
"Yeah - I mean, should I?"
"Is it affecting your quality of life?"
I thought for a second, then went in for a penny and a pound. "I have a hard time making out with the Mister because I can't breathe out of one side - my kissing side."
He laughed and asked if that was important enough for surgery. !!!!
"Doc. Make outs are totally a quality of life issue."
He scheduled a CT and an appointment with an ENT to get this checked out. HEE. Who on earth could doubt the importance of make outs?!? Before I get "concerned comments about being heedless/slap-dash with surgery, I have issues breathing, always have, and hey! Let's fix that if we can, yes? And the bonus is the new Euro-Extended Make Out Stoney Remix! \o/
ION: I found last night's ep of Big Love to be incredibly disturbing. I also am 100% convinced that Gennifer what's her butt [Margene] is a one-note actress and she's getting on my last damn nerve. The dancing? Good lord.
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I love those "one last thing" conversations with my doctor. It always seems that those are the ones that turn up the real issues. Too bad we can't have "so, how are you doing?" kind of appointments with our doctors as a regular part of health care.
Hope things work out for you and the septum. That sounds like a pretty miserable condition, actually.
And yeah - there should be a bi-yearly, "Say, Doc, what do you make of this..." type appointments.
It's been bad when I'm trying to really work out hard, like full out running. Must be why I've been a sprinter since junior high?
I'm glad you're getting that looked at and hopefully fixed. Deviated septums are just no good.
I keep wishing there was a good way to ask a doctor about those "...er, is it SUPPOSED to work this way?" questions, especially when one isn't having physicals and doesn't have insurance. SIGH.
Oy, the lack of insurance. My sister is without insurance and I just worry about her all the time. I'm trying to build up enough of a relationship with my GP to get him to bend the rules and sneak her in on my insurance. I grew up without insurance, so now that I'm covered, I'm all about using it.
Truer words never spoken.
He laughed and asked if that was important enough for surgery. !!!!
Hell yes it is! :P
Good luck with everything in regards to that!
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Hey, extended euro remix. You can't say that to a European and not have him pull a glowstick out. (secret: all EU citizens carry glowsticks on their persons 24 hours a day)
But in all seriousness, it is weird when something you had all your life turns out to be medical issues. Cue story about my crooked fang and an inflammation of the lip that required surgery.
I'm glad to know that should I ever go undercover as a European I will require glowsticks on my person. And black head-to-toe, clearly.
WHOA! Good thing you had that looked into, as well! Infections can be naaaaasty.
once i had my knee fixed last year, I wanted to jump and run all day because it no longer hurt!
Oh, dude, you will be unstoppable when you can breathe free from both your nostrils! Making out, walking and running, getting enough oxygen to all of you! \o/
Oh my goodness, I cannot WAIT to breathe deep from both sides! Maybe I had superpowers that were dampened because of the lack of proper O2 to CO2 transfer in my cells! I MAY BE ABLE TO FLY, J!
I've known a couple of people who had that surgery. It wasn't fun for them. OTOH, my dad got to send one of the guys from work who had that surgery a basket of pansies with the note, "Get well, ya pansy."
Ahahaha, that's a great gag gift after surgery - my kind of humor!
It must have been romantic though, every time you're husband would kiss you you'd be swooning all over the place in a romantic faint. Of course you'd be blue and twitching, but still, very romantic.
Big Love was so disturbing. It was crawled under my skin, could barely pay attention to Flight of the Conchords, I dreamed about churches and hymns all last night disturbing. I actually liked Ginnifer Goodwin the first two seasons but I have to agree with you now. In trying to give Margene's character depth they're really showing her limitations as an actress. On the flip side I think Chloe Sevigny should be handed every acting award there is.
Chlo Sevigny is absolutely fantastic. Knowing that she's such a New Yorker, elegant, and hip and watching Nikki... she's absolutely perfect.
And now I'm thinking of putting the lotion on the skin, because I'm broken like that. It was the corrective surgery bit. ;D
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