Diary: January 2007

I'm baack!

Well, that was fun. Went in at mid-day yesterday, met doctors, and went down to theatre at 4. They stuck a needle in my hand, turned on the anaesthetic, and I just had enough time to explain to everyone present that I make websites for a living before I fell asleep. Odd, it's usually the other way around.

I woke up about 45 minutes later to find that they had decided not to remove my adenoids - instead, they had just trimmed the tubinates a bit. Oh well, I won't complain as long as it helps - makes for much ...

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3 Days Later, Still Dripping

My nose is still dripping, 3 days after the operation. Well, dripping is a slight misnomer - it's a veritable deluge. On the rare occasion that it pauses, it merely seems to gather for a renewed assault; I have just under one second of warning before it it pours from my nostril, down my face, and flows from my chin. This, ladies and gentlemen, is mucus on a mission.

But it does pause from time to time, and I have had several moments of clarity where a nostril opens up, air flows down through my nose, and, in those rare ...

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Nose, Work and That Framework Thing Again

Quick update on the nose - 6 days and still dripping. It's gradually getting better, but I wish the doctors had told me something about what was going to happen afterwards - I assume this is normal, but then Wikipedia does little to reassure. Bad Google.

Work, on the other hand, seems to be going well; I'm going to launch another new client site today that has been in development for some time, and so am gradually clearing the board to leave some time in the day to develop personal projects and to branch out a bit. Apologies if that ...

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Typical!

As most regular contact with clients is by e-mail, I don't often get many phone calls, unless there's something urgent. In fact, weeks can go by without getting a call. Even so, I never turn my phone off.

Last night though, my nose had decided it didn't like me, was being very uncomfortable and had given me a splitting headache, so I went to bed early and turned the phone off for a good nights sleep. So of course, this morning I forgot to turn it back on, and when I did there were answerphone messages from ...

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