Turbinator: Salvation

[mrissa]

Timprov's turbinates are a shadow of their former selves, as is his uvula, and his tonsils are gone. While he does not appear to be in any danger of injuring himself leaping about and frolicking any time soon, the surgery itself went about as well as such a thing could be expected to go--better, in fact. "This is the fastest we've ever discharged a tonsilectomy patient!" one of the nurses kept repeating.

There is still the recovery to get through, and swallowing is not the most fun he's ever had. But to start with the procedure going well: hurrah! Onwards! Wiktory!

And on a much more trivial level: so glad to be out of that freezing cold hospital I can hardly tell you. It is in the 80s here today on the Fahrenheit scale. I was wearing wool socks and jeans and a shirt and a hoodie, and I kept putting my hands on markgritter's laptop to warm them, because you could hang meat in the family lounge of that hospital. Uff da.

Comments

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Oh, most excellent. Do please pass on my congrats and best wishes for a speedy recovery.

[pameladean]

Thank you so much for the update. And my very best to Timprov.

P.

[moiread]

Woohoo! I was going to e-mail later to ask how it went, so am glad for the update.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Hooray for record-setting discharges!

Maybe I should go to that hospital's family waiting room to sleep the next time it gets this hot.

[timprov.livejournal.com]

Hooray for record-setting discharges!

Er, um. I think we can be happy with the one and hope for no more.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I make fun of your nose.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Great news. Hope his recovery goes smoothly.

[panjianlien.livejournal.com]

I'm so pleased to hear it! Swift and uneventful healing to Timprov!

[prettymuchpeggy.livejournal.com]

Good News ... he has an offer of icecream from me if he so desires it.

[timprov.livejournal.com]

I have little projection, but I can do scales in the bottom half of my range already.

[prettymuchpeggy.livejournal.com]

I am glad to read that and look forward to listening later. Take care.

[keilexandra]

Hooray for Wiktory!

OT: Can you identify which is which in your icon? I think this is the first picture I've seen of all three of you.

[timprov.livejournal.com]

I'm on the right. (mrissa's left. Whatever.)

[keilexandra]

Neato, thanks. Hope you're feeling better!

(I giggle at the size differential. M'ris looks so tiny, but hear her rawr!)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Do hear me rawr!

I'm 5'6", though, so adjust your mental image of my smallitude or the guys' bigitude accordingly. Our furniture was chosen on the assumption that I would be the shortest person to sit on it regularly, so it manages to fit all of us. (My mom and grandma are both also 5'6", and Grandpa was, so I'm not the only person my height we were planning for. Still, when dlandon or pameladean come over, they need extra cushions or they need to curl their legs up.)

[keilexandra]

Wow--you definitely look shorter next to the guys, hehe. 5'2" over here, down near the floor. :D But I suspect Scandosotan genes are generally taller than Asian ones.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

And since you live Out East instead of in the Upper Midwest, I figured you weren't used to looking at pictures of men and estimating heights above six feet.

When we lived in California, I could never lose markgritter or Timprov in a crowd, because they always stuck out above it. Here, I had to readjust.

[freelikebeer.livejournal.com]

Every time Mark takes a picture of himself at his desk, I get the impression that he is like 5'8" [sitting, hunched to view his cam]. He's definitely more viking when he is standing up.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You should see his "little" brother go from sitting-and-slouching to standing full up. Eep.

[numinicious.livejournal.com]

This is excellent news! I'm very happy for the both of you.
I believe the appropriate prescription at this time is ice cream or frozen yogurt? I admit I am not entirely sure, but either way I am crossing my fingers for an extra-speedy recovery.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

He has already had local buckwheat honey ice cream.

[moiread]

For some people, that is called "being spoiled rotten". For you guys, that's pretty much just a regular day. Isn't it?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yah, I can't honestly tell you that the quart of it was bought with Timprov's surgery in mind. On the other hand, we would have made sure we went back and got another quart if this one was gone by the time he'd had this surgery.

[numinicious.livejournal.com]

... Can I live in your kitchen, please?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We also have local strawberry ice cream (local strawberries, local cream) and also mango. Non-local mango.

[numinicious.livejournal.com]

I am not terribly fond of mango, but I do have a mango tree, so I shall just give them all to you.

But YESYESYES to the strawberries!

[timprov.livejournal.com]

Sure.

[laurel]

Yay! Here's hoping recovery goes just as swimmingly as the surgery. Or better.

I suppose watching Twins game as he recovers is right out, 'cause he'd be tempted to yell at the TV which probably isn't healthy just now.

[timprov.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can be very vocal if I need to be.

Maybe I'll turn it off if Breslow comes in, though.

[laurel]

I saw a graphic in the pre-game show (I think I had it muted due to the Coomer factor) that indicated Breslow was picked up off of waivers by Oakland.

Rincon is out there as a free agent, but I don't think the Twins are that desperate yet.

[timprov.livejournal.com]

Mythbusters time.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Also he is more a growler than a yeller.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Excellent news!

[one-undone.livejournal.com]

Yay! So glad to hear Timprov's surgery went well and that he's out of the hospital and working on recovery.

*thumbs up*

:)

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

Good to hear. Ice cream to all.

[talimena.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! (Except for the freezing cold part.)

[aliseadae]

hooray!