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 moments, I think, I have smelt. Today I think I might have smelt bacon.

But it didn't last, and I am left wondering if its intensity was due to true improvement, or merely a lucky sniff as in the past, intensified by the past few days of total blockage. It's a bit like tearing a corner of wrapping paper off a Christmas present and seeing the letters 'Wi' - when it comes to Christmas, will I unwrap it to find a Wii, or "Winnie the Pooh" socks again?

I have no idea how long my dripping nose will last; I haven't seen a doctor since before the operation, and the ward nurses were about as informative as a whiteboard at a RNIB convention. But I can put up with the dripping, I just want to know - will I be able to smell?

Comments

Tristan

It is entirely possible that your new cyborg nose implant did not smell bacon:

http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2006/11/robot_identifie.html

Hope the dripping stops soon!

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