Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Poor Alika's sinuses

Alika has had sinus problems since she was a little girl. She had sinus surgery when she was about 16 and had her adenoids and tonsils removed. For the past couple of months she has had recurrent sinus infections and her CT scan showed that a sinoid cyst found a couple of years ago was growing. Dr. Hill decided it was time to remove the cyst. This morning Alika had surgery. They discovered the sinoid cyst wasn't really a cyst it was scar tissue that had formed a pocket for snot/mucus to accumulate and fester causing chronic sinus infections. She also had a deviated septum which he corrected while he was in the neighborhood and he removed some bone on both sides of her nasal cavity to make her air flow easier. Hopefully, she will be cured of her chronic sinus problems. I'm not kidding when I say she has been full of snot since she was little. She was the saddest little girl always sniffing and blowing her nose. She'd cry because she couldn't breath and then when she cried she really couldn't breath. It was pitiful! Her room was always full of tissues overflowing out of the garbage can, behind her bed. She hasn't been that pitiful for a long time but her sinus problems haven't improved. She wasn't in much pain when she woke up but she was throwing up and miserable. She is better then this evening

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