Thursday, May 21, 2009

Chris' Nose Surgery

(ode to my favorite fine art photographer, Thomas Ruff )
but as you can see his nose use to slightly bend to the left



Chris and his head surgin, Chris (Dr. Cote)

Him prior the morphine...

...and post :)

after surgery

those damn green socks with the sticky tabs on the bottom... you know what I'm talking about

Exhausting couple of days! Yesterday was 12 hours at Walter Reed Medical Center while Chris got his nose surgery. Well, he actualy got an open septorrhinoplasty with alar rim graft placement, bilaterally, untilateral right spreader graft placement, caudal septal extension graft, right dorsal onlay graft, transdomal sutures placed, with left conchal bowl cartlage harvesting.... actually I think that's on the menu at Mc Donalds .... No, but in layman's terms, he can't breath well out of his nose because of a deviated septum, this was to fix that. He actually got one done about 6 years ago, and they not only botched it, but also made his nose crocked. So this is the second try. But with nationally renowned Dr. Chris Cote (who worked on the US's first face transplant, great doctor!).

But it was a long day.We ended up getting home around 9pm last night (got there at 6am)Once home I had to wake him up every 3 hours to drain his nose and give him his meds. I didn't sleep well a. waking up every couple hours and b. for fear he would bleed to death (he had to be rushed to the ER 16 hours after his last surgery due to bleeding). But, thank goodness, he made it through the night and today was doing surprisingly well! He ate, sat up, was even able to clean his own nose! But I had to go to work today, on top of my, maybe 2 good hours of sleep, so it's been a long couple of days.... Again tonight with the meds every 3 hours...I'm going to have to get some sleep some time. He get's the cast off next Tuesday, so stay posted! :)

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