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Old 10-12-2005, 12:15 PM
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A setback

I thought everything was going well, but at 2:30 in the morning I suddenly started bleeding profusely out of both nostrils. I grabbed a box of tissue as fast as I could, but wound up getting a lot of blood on myself (bare chest actually, managed not to get any on my clothes this time), and tried and tried to get it to stop. After it kept going on for 15 minutes, I went to the ER. BOY ARE THEY SLOW. I wound up staying there until 4 am, at which time the ER doctor said they'd scabbed over enough that he thought he shouldn't mess with the scabs to attempt to reinsert packing, and I should see my Ear-nose-throat doctor later today (whom they called and talked to, he's the one who did the surgery). Not sure what he can tell me, except I guess to make sure that laying in bed I didn't accidentally roll over and mess something up, like my septum. But I'm going in to see him - I skipped out on work again obviously, and I've been wearing gauze on my face all over again....
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