DarkFact wrote:> Oh, it's sorta boring story but I had nasal surgery due to nasal polyps (that they
> didn't get to fully remove, apparently I'm a gusher and didn't know it) had me recovering
> from surgery for a couple weeks and I decided (Indiana, 25 degree weather) that I
> was good enough to start walking to work a week after surgery. Got about ten minutes
> into the walk, sneezed, and immediately started having a waterfall nose bleed that
> wouldn't stop. Called an ambulance in between choking on my own blood flow, it slowed
> down by the time the fire truck and ambulance got to me.
>
> Declined a ride to the hospital, I called in to work and walked home and relaxed
> for about an hour, coughed and then the nosebleed started again worse than it was
> before, so I quickly gathered my stuff into my pockets and locked the door behind
> me to bleed out on my porch steps waiting for the ambulance to come back. I think
> it happened (the body wear, cracked the original screen protector too but the screen
> itself was fine obviously) before the ambulance got to me the second time. I went
> to the hospital the second time. EMT thought I was a gunshot wound victim when she
> walked up to me the second time, my arms were caked in blood crust, red bloom all
> over my shirt and a huge pool on the steps. Somehow I hadn't lost enough blood to
> require getting any once I got to the hospital. Clearly I survived the experience.
>
>
> Lots of weird side effects and complications from the nasal surgery but I coulda
> come out worse and I'm pretty much back to normal and breathing better overall, can
> use my CPAP again. I can almost feel the palate of my mouth again, and it's only
> been a month!
Glad to hear you're doing much better!!
