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Hospital Update...
21 August 2006 16:02So, I've just got home from the hospital, via a chemist to fork out £13:30 on two different types of prescription goop.
My appointment consisted of a quick examination (getting metal things shoved in my nose to open my nostils wide, which felt very weird. Then I had some spray squirted up my nose to "freeze it", quickly followed by having a pipe full of optic fibres rammed so far up my nose it came out in my throat. This was somewhat less than comfy, made my eyes water somewhat. My nose (an throat) still feels somewhat weird now. Of course, whilst that lot was in there, he was still asking me questions and expecting me to manage to respond... I think about all I could say was "Eeeeh *cough*" and "Aaaa *Cough*" and "*Splutter* *choke*". Still, he seemed to be able to understand my strange gurglings and chokings, so all is good.
The doctor blokey said that whilst there's a chance the prescription goop will make the problem go away, it's not very likely. He did say that even if it doesn't sort me out, though, it should make the symptoms less bad for a while.
I'm now waiting for an appointment for a CT scan... where they'll have to strap my head into a frame to stop me moving about whilst they shove me in something that looks like a prop from a sci-fi anime and fire radioactive beams through my noggin. Joy. I wonder if they'll be injecting me with strange goo (aka: contrast materials) too - just to make sure I feel properly wobbly whilst they do it? I have no idea if they need to for a sinus CT. I guess I'll find out when I get there!
Also, reading the instructions on the Goop-A bottles (I'm on Goop-A for a month, then Goop-B for three months), I have to keep Goop-A in the fridge! Damnit - this is going to make it hard for me to remember to take it, especially as I have to contort myself in strange ways to actually take the stuff. I have to kneel down and then tip my head forward so the top of my head is on the ground and then put drops into my nose so that they drip down into my inverted nostrils. If I take them in a non-inverted fashion, they'll end up in my stomach and not in the right bit of my nasal cavity. Damned gravity. Has to go and make everything awkward, doesn't it.
My appointment consisted of a quick examination (getting metal things shoved in my nose to open my nostils wide, which felt very weird. Then I had some spray squirted up my nose to "freeze it", quickly followed by having a pipe full of optic fibres rammed so far up my nose it came out in my throat. This was somewhat less than comfy, made my eyes water somewhat. My nose (an throat) still feels somewhat weird now. Of course, whilst that lot was in there, he was still asking me questions and expecting me to manage to respond... I think about all I could say was "Eeeeh *cough*" and "Aaaa *Cough*" and "*Splutter* *choke*". Still, he seemed to be able to understand my strange gurglings and chokings, so all is good.
The doctor blokey said that whilst there's a chance the prescription goop will make the problem go away, it's not very likely. He did say that even if it doesn't sort me out, though, it should make the symptoms less bad for a while.
I'm now waiting for an appointment for a CT scan... where they'll have to strap my head into a frame to stop me moving about whilst they shove me in something that looks like a prop from a sci-fi anime and fire radioactive beams through my noggin. Joy. I wonder if they'll be injecting me with strange goo (aka: contrast materials) too - just to make sure I feel properly wobbly whilst they do it? I have no idea if they need to for a sinus CT. I guess I'll find out when I get there!
Also, reading the instructions on the Goop-A bottles (I'm on Goop-A for a month, then Goop-B for three months), I have to keep Goop-A in the fridge! Damnit - this is going to make it hard for me to remember to take it, especially as I have to contort myself in strange ways to actually take the stuff. I have to kneel down and then tip my head forward so the top of my head is on the ground and then put drops into my nose so that they drip down into my inverted nostrils. If I take them in a non-inverted fashion, they'll end up in my stomach and not in the right bit of my nasal cavity. Damned gravity. Has to go and make everything awkward, doesn't it.
