December 26, 2006
Things that are not cool
There are certain things which your body just instinctively knows are not a good idea. Things which you want to shy away from without even having to think about it. Like someone sticking a four inch metal suction spike up your nose and pulling things out with it.
Fortunately, when someone tried to do that to me this morning, it turns out I was paying him to do that, because he was my surgeon. Even more fortunately, he had shot my head full of topical anesthetic, so while it did feel distinctly and remarkably bizarre, it didn't actually hurt much.
Still, the whole time, my body was screaming "Have you completely lost your mind?! Get that thing out of there!" But it all worked out. I can breathe even better than before. I had never really appreciated just how pleasant taking a deep breath can be. Before this week, it always involved building pressure in my head, so I didn't do it much. Now it's, well, a breath of fresh air, as it were.
