Thursday, July 14, 2011

Nose Bleeds

So for the last month and a half I have been suffering from nose bleeds.  I have had 10 nose bleeds in that month and a half.  It started at work one day and hasn't stopped.  For at weird moments it comes on.  At work, in the car before work, heading out to Portland, coming home from Portland, and lastly lots at home.  I went to the doctor a couple of weeks ago and she couldn't find anything wrong so she sent me to a specialist.  I saw the specialist today and this is my last time going.  Not a fun experience.  He was a great doctor but it hurt.  He took his tools (Nose devious and a suction tube) and stuck the nose devious seeing thing, sorry don't know the name, up my good nostril and said that looks great and then moved to my not so good nostril.  Then he took his suction tube while the other thing was up my nose and sucked stuff out trying to find the blood vessel.  You guessed it.  He found it.  Once he found it he stuffed some cotton anesthetic up my nose.  Very weird feeling let me tell you.  He then put a cloth on my upper lip right under my nose.  He asked for my hand and then when I didn't give him the right had he asked for the other had and then he apparently didn't like that had and asked for my other hand.  So confusing when I only have two hands.  Finally he got the hands that he wanted in the correct spots.  One on the cloth on my lips and one squeezing my nose.  After a few minutes he took the cotton anesthetic (supposed to numb the pain) out of my nose also weird feeling.  Then he took a cauterizing stick and stuffed it in my nose where the blood vessel was.  He was pressing so hard that it almost brought me to tears.  I'm not sure I pressed hard enough because it hurt.  Definitely don't want to go back.  It hopefully will be healed in 2 weeks.  Yay!!!  If not I'm still not going back. 

1 comment:

Mama Griffith, said...

wow thats crazy! I hope it heals!