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kenske
- August 28th, 13:45
Finally saw the Ear-Nose-Throat specialist from Anchorage today! I got the green light to get my tonsils removed, and the option of a Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP for short). UPPPs is a surgery where they remove your tonsils, uvula, soft palette, adenoids, and pharynx. It's a painful procedure, but I'm totally willing to try, I mean, I haven't had a real surgery ever, so I have no idea how painful it will be, so not just jump into it? UPPPs are only effective a little more than 1/3 of the time, but since I really do have gigantic tonsils (and have had them all of my life) and my sleep apnea was only mild, not severe, I have some higher chances of it working. At any point I can just get the tonsils removed and forgo the UPPP, if I choose.
During the appointment, the specialist asked for my sleep study, and all the clinic had was a piece of paper that said I had sleep apnea from Fairbanks Memorial hospital. She told them that she needed to see the results from the study and they told her that's all they didn't have anything else. She looked over at me and gave me this look like, "they should really have your study on them, this is not okay" and I told her "yeah, for a couple months after I was diagnosed, they didn't know that I had sleep apnea." So yeah, that was fun.
So, probably in October, I'll head down to Anchorage for the surgery, and I'll have to stay down there for 10 days, so they can watch for bleeding (the biggest concern with the procedure). Not sure how that'll pan out with my classes and stuff, but this is for real medical stuff, so they'll have to deal.