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Yesterday was another ENT visit to Dr. Tabor at the USF Health building on the TGH campus. He’s really growing on me; great chair-side manners, very knowledgeable and confident, and the technology he uses that lets me see what he’s doing fits me perfectly. Like usual, he hit “record” on his high-definition scope for this visit, and I’m so glad he did! He found a small polyp growing in my right side that was nearly coming out of my frontal sinus opening, and therefore completely blocking it from draining.
This is why I have monthly appointments – that polyp was not there 4 weeks ago to the day.
The video below is a tad graphic, so if you can’t handle blood or fluid, I’ll let my mild description be enough for you. Don’t worry, I won’t be too graphic in my description for you, unless your stomach is extraordinarily weak – in that case, I can’t help you; I’m biologically gross because of CF.
When Dr. Tabor saw the polyp’s location, he decided he wanted to remove it… now. I instantly wondered how he was going to shoot me up with lidocaine without me flinching. Sure he uses topical numbing, but I’m sure I’d feel a pinch with the needle and juice for that split second. I’ve had lots of cavities and even had a shot in my big toe and sensitive hamstring, so I know what that first pinch is like.
Answer: he just went with the topical spray and said, “tell me if this hurts,” as he went up with the forceps in the image above and grabbed it and pulled it out. I’ve been trying to figure out a similar sensation to describe it. It didn’t hurt, but it was a noticeable tugging that I had to resist with my neck muscles. I’d say that it felt like the faint “pop” that I remember from pulling out my very loose teeth as a kid. He went back to get some leftover tissue a second time and I would say that was more of a tug than the first one.
I expected to see blood all over the place since this is what they do in surgery, and we know how much bleeding that causes. There wasn’t any, though, and the video shows him getting a little trickle with suction a couple of times and I stayed a little while after as we burned the CD of the video and he showed me what he did before I left.
Before you watch the video, I’d like to apologize for two things, seeing as how I’m a designer and this does not represent my knowledge of what looks good. The font is hard to read, but I kept selecting black, but it never changed. I tried to get the text of the pre-The End scene to be the same as the rest, but that also didn’t change. I’ll watch more tutorials on iMovie when I’m doing my treatments. I know I’ll be making more videos with my next computer, as this one was agonizingly slow 43 minutes to finalize a 55-second video that took me about 20 minutes to create. I’d also like to add a nice music track soon and delete this sentence. Without further ado, here it is:
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CF Fatboy is a small business owner flourishing in Tampa, FL. He and Beautiful have been married for 5 years and are doing everything they can to ensure they have a long life together.
