A reader notes:
My nose packing was suctioned out of one nostril through my mouth. This occurred about 14 hours after surgery. The night nurse set up a suction device, like dental hygenists use, soon after surgery so I could rinse blood out of my mouth/throat instead of swallowing it and vomiting (wishful thinking!). The surgeon had to be paged—the gauze was being threaded from my nose through the back of my throat and hanging out my mouth (a nurse taped it to the side of my face until the surgeon showed up) and I was gagging. Boy was the surgeon mad at that nurse for giving me the suction (I didn’t know what I was doing, my surgery had ended at 8 p.m.).
Anyway, the surgeon decided NOT to repack that nostril, the other side came out four days later. Now, at over 6 weeks post-surgery, the “early-unpacked” nostril is caved in a little. It’s not horrible, but it is noticeable and definitely not up to par for what should be a world class rhinoplasty result. Although I haven’t sent pictures of it yet, the surgeon said that it should be repairable, but that they always wait a whole year before doing any nose touch up.
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