He talked about nose bleeds. I had a 10-20 year stretch in my life with almost constant nose bleeds that thankfully went away (poor/no health insurance means you just deal with it and move on, go USA!) but I can think of how I would sometimes blow my nose after a nosebleed and I’d get a big clot. I have to think, seeing how some of those are so loose, that at least one would have come out when he sneezed or blew his nose?
I’m glad they solved his immediate problem at least. Not surprised he didn’t want to be seen on camera, from a different vantage point.
Late last year I had nose surgery to fix my deviated septum (broken in a fight nearly 40 years ago) and remove additional tissue. I was awake the entire time with only my nose numbed. I admit I wasn’t happy with the idea but apparently that is how these are typically done. I could immediately breathe better than I can ever recall so I was almost glad to be awake.
Yes, quite “aseptic”, if you allow.
But then, I’m the one that two weeks ago complained I could not follow my own surgery (broken ankle) because they put up kind of a screen…
Yeah, I’ve pulled bugs from noses, ears, once from an eye. Can’t say we ever anesthetize for that. Sometimes I do use lidocaine to drown them in ears, not sure it anesthetizes the ear, but does the bugs and they don’t thrash as much. It’s a fun procedure, honestly. And the yuck factor is part of it. Plus the instant relief.
I’m not a doctor but the human nasopharynx and maybe stuff down to the larynx seems really easy to get malfunctions in. You have sinuses that seem only to fill up with gunk and get infected; you have a short face that makes it easy for things to press back into the throat and clog the airway especially while asleep; you have a shortened nasal passage full of intentionally impeding structures too eager to hypertrophy and block airflow; and if you muck around with the last bit to make them smaller, you may cause a horrible condition called ‘empty nose syndrome’ where missing airflow feedback makes your brain think you are suffocating.
Could be bot-fly. There do seem to be small dark spines on the larvae in the video, which are present in bot-fly larvae. At least one species does specialise in noses.
