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hollysmom

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3. I wish you the best.
Sat Feb 22, 2014, 03:59 PM
Feb 2014

While they were in there, they fixed a deviated septum, but my mother was mad that I did not have my nose trimmed. Kind of shocked me, I always liked my nose. For 3 days I had to sleep sitting up because I automatically breathe through my nose unless I am sitting up. as hard as that is some times like when I have a cold. They pack you nose with so much gauze I could not believe how long it took to get it out - it was like a bad magician with the endless scarf trick.
Yes the year with coughing and phlegm was bad - how bad was it? I kept a bucket next to my bed so I could spit in it at night. I went though a box of tissue or two a day. It was so bad that my dog who refused to sit on my bed for a minute because it was my bed(she was a stickler for proper behavior) I woke up choking one night (;like I did so many) and she was sitting on my bed looking down at me like she was going to do CPR.

The doctor said to take 6 weeks off from work, I really only need 1 week, but then my dog had surgery, so I took the rest and did not tell them I was better and I carried the dog in and out of the house because her legs were in a cast (so much for no lifting, she weight 70 pounds, ha ha.

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