Yesterday I had the trifecta of Sleep Apnea surgeries all in one fell swoop. UPPP, tonsilectomy and septoplasty. In lay terms, I had my tonsils removed, the soft palette of my throat reduced and the crooked innards of my nasal passages repaired. Doing amazingly well today, I think, considering. Mainly I have the mother of all sore throats, which really makes it hard to swallow — but, otherwise, I’m mostly OK. Just a bit out of it from the pain killers.
It’ll be a few weeks before I’m really getting back to normal. Most people lose 10-20 lbs after having this surgery. It’ll be a few weeks after that before I can really tell whether the surgery has been a success. Minimally, it should at least help reduce my propensity to strep throat infections, and improve my sinus and allergy issues. At best, it will fix me so I can breathe while I sleep at night without the mechanical assistance of a CPAP machine.
