I thought I should post up a brief explanation on why I "disappeared".
Basically on Monday I had pretty extensive sinus surgery (polyp removal and some reconstruction). It was necessary because the polyps were aggressive, affecting not just proper airflow but causing inner ear issues to boot.
The surgeon is an ENT with a superb track record in the field and used a pretty new procedure with multiple CT scans forming a 3D picture allowing extremely exact work - the rig looks a bit like something out of a science fiction movie.
I finally came out of the anesthesia completely early this morning, and then as is wont to happen with shock to the systems (like cutting inside your sinuses) plus sleepless nights before surgery due to work and a death in the close friends club I basically slept myself out today.
Recuperation will take a few more days for things like residual clotting from the procedure that the surgeon will clean out Friday but once it is healed I will have a lot of peripheral life changes, for example:
a) Flying without having to track a steroid before the flight (to push the polyps back enough to avoid eardrum damage).
b) Improved sense of balance from having always unblocked eustachian tubes
c) I gather I probably will have a bit of change in my voice too, again courtesy of the restoration of proper airflow
Other solutions (medicines, natural, homeopathic) were pursued first. Surgery was the last option, and I give my surgeon kudos for the entire way this was handled. This guy is a pro's pro!
Basically on Monday I had pretty extensive sinus surgery (polyp removal and some reconstruction). It was necessary because the polyps were aggressive, affecting not just proper airflow but causing inner ear issues to boot.
The surgeon is an ENT with a superb track record in the field and used a pretty new procedure with multiple CT scans forming a 3D picture allowing extremely exact work - the rig looks a bit like something out of a science fiction movie.
I finally came out of the anesthesia completely early this morning, and then as is wont to happen with shock to the systems (like cutting inside your sinuses) plus sleepless nights before surgery due to work and a death in the close friends club I basically slept myself out today.
Recuperation will take a few more days for things like residual clotting from the procedure that the surgeon will clean out Friday but once it is healed I will have a lot of peripheral life changes, for example:
a) Flying without having to track a steroid before the flight (to push the polyps back enough to avoid eardrum damage).
b) Improved sense of balance from having always unblocked eustachian tubes
c) I gather I probably will have a bit of change in my voice too, again courtesy of the restoration of proper airflow
Other solutions (medicines, natural, homeopathic) were pursued first. Surgery was the last option, and I give my surgeon kudos for the entire way this was handled. This guy is a pro's pro!
) - the MRI hadn't shown how bad the blockage was. once the recovery time was over it was amazing - I could easily breathe through my nose for the first time in my life. I could sleep on my left side which I had been unable to do due to the blocked nostril and the most miraculous thing was it did NOT change the shape of my nose. 
yeah every celeb. who gets a nose job whines they had a deviated septum - well that problem can be easily fixed without the need for cosmetic changes to the nose. 
