Not as bad as I’d been led to believe
The surgeon broke my nose last week. She straightened a badly deviated septum and resected the turbinate structures in the nose. The upshot is that when everything has healed, I’ll be able to breathe through my nose. I haven’t been able to sleep more than 3 or 4 hours a night for months because my airway shut down. Soon I should be able to get a good night’s rest.
I was prepared to have two black eyes and a tampon-like cotton packing shoved up each nostril for a week. But I escaped those indignities. In the mean time I can’t sleep for more than an hour before I wake up. I’ve been sleeping 4 or 5 on hour stretches each night.