I’ve been quiet in a couple of different ways recently …<\/p>\n
Very little postage,<\/p>\n
And I’ve lost my voice.<\/p>\n
The latter definitely not being good for one in my line of work.<\/p>\n
About 4 weeks ago,<\/p>\n
I woke up one morning with two bumps on my nose …<\/p>\n
Slightly below its bridge.<\/p>\n
The one on stage right was noticeable, but not that large,<\/p>\n
However, the one on stage left was not only noticeable, but quite large in my opinion.<\/p>\n
I was phreaked AND perplexed.<\/p>\n
They sort of looked like the indention on your nose where the pads of your eyeglasses sit if you’ve worn them for days on end,<\/p>\n
But in my case,<\/p>\n
I hadn’t been wearing glasses during the day.<\/p>\n
(Though they did offer some assistance for reading, my glasses were primarily props that I used for the switch between boy and girl … you know, that whole Clark Kent thing. Joe wore glasses, I don’t (unless it’s at night and I’m reading or during the day when I’ll wear contacts if I’m doing bookoo reading.))<\/p>\n
I was quite confused,<\/p>\n
Nothing there when I went to bed,<\/p>\n
Two bumps there the morning after.<\/p>\n
They felt sorta like soft cartilage …<\/p>\n
Not quite part of the bone structure,<\/p>\n
But clearly appeared to be part of my nasal architecture.<\/p>\n
And if I pressed down on the bumps,<\/p>\n
I could flatten them out so they weren’t noticeable,<\/p>\n
Except they’d pop back out in about 2 minutes,<\/p>\n
And there seemed to be some skin discoloration around the bumps …<\/p>\n
They looked lighter in color than the surrounding tissue.<\/p>\n
At first I thought maybe I was just being the hyper-critical person I can be at times when it comes to me …<\/p>\n
But Mom and Dad both noticed them the same day I did.<\/p>\n
So I waited out the day to see if they subsided,<\/p>\n
But they didn’t.<\/p>\n
And the following day I called Dr. Z.
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\nUnfortunately, he was on vacation,<\/p>\n
But his assistant Chris asked me to try and take some pictures to of the bumps, e-mail them to him and she’d also pass the message along to him.<\/p>\n
Now I did try to take pictures,<\/p>\n
But my camera couldn’t get enough of a focus as close as was needed to see the bumps.<\/p>\n
I know, I know … that makes it sound like the bumps were minor,<\/p>\n
But they really weren’t.<\/p>\n
You could clearly see them.<\/p>\n
Anyways, Dr. Z called me back about 2 hours after I had called him …<\/p>\n
And I explained the scoop.<\/p>\n
Being 9 months out since my FFS,<\/p>\n
He was perplexed on what it could be,<\/p>\n
And I’m sure my description of it didn’t help.<\/p>\n
But we made plans for me to go see him a week ago yesterday …<\/p>\n
And that’s exactly what I did.<\/p>\n
Now in the intervening couple of weeks,<\/p>\n
I did massage the area,<\/p>\n
As the bumps would subside with massaging,<\/p>\n
Though always quickly return.<\/p>\n
I really didn’t see any long term reduction in their presence,<\/p>\n
So I was anxious to see Dr. Z,<\/p>\n
And when he saw what I was talking about,<\/p>\n
He was like “hmmm, I see exactly what you’re talking about and<\/i> (pressing the areas to see them subside and return) don’t know what it could be.<\/i>”<\/p>\n
He then comforted me telling me we’d get rid of the bumps,<\/p>\n
But that he’d like to watch them for a bit to see if they go away on their own,<\/p>\n
Similiar to how they appeared overnight,<\/p>\n
And that hopefully we’d be able to identify what caused them.<\/p>\n
However, if they don’t subside,<\/p>\n
He could try some steriod shots to the bumps and possibly some fat injections to cover them up,<\/p>\n
If necessary, he’d go in and rasp them down.<\/p>\n
So knowing we’d be able to rid myself of the bumps made me feel better,<\/p>\n
But I was impatient and convinced him to give me a steroid shot at that visit to see if maybe it’d work,<\/p>\n
Though I could tell he was thinking it was possibly related to a sinus issue …<\/p>\n
As he kept asking me about it,<\/p>\n
And was focused on how it developed overnight.<\/p>\n
When he called me on Tuesday of this week,<\/p>\n
As I was recovering from my food poisoning (I did ask him if the steroid shot could of caused it and he said it couldn’t) …<\/p>\n
I told him that the bumps were the same as they were when he saw me.<\/p>\n
He then asked me to get some Claritin<\/a> and take that for 3-4 days to see if it helped at all,<\/p>\n Which I promptly did ! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n As of Friday night,<\/p>\n I hadn’t noticed any difference in the bumps on my nose,<\/p>\n Though I did lose my voice around 6:00 pm.<\/p>\n Then about 8:30 pm,<\/p>\n I was watching While You Were Out<\/a>,<\/p>\n