Day two.

Day two was an interesting day to say the least. I woke up with the most intense swelling around my eyes and I was literally purple/dark blue from bruising. I could feel pressure under my cast, perhaps from the swelling of my nose and it was uncomfortable. I had minimal pain for the early part of the day which I was pretty surprised about considering. I spoke to Madame Guessous soon after I had my first round of medication and breakfast and she told me what happened in my procedure. It turns out when the Dr. Guessous opened my nose (I had a closed procedure), he found it to be in a bit of a mess so the surgery took longer than planned. She explained to me that the bump had been removed, but he also had to fix the sides of my nose before finally breaking them and bringing them in to form a new bridge. I totally understand that as my bump was not only on the bridge, but on either side as well. Dr. Guessous came in a few times during the day to check on me and my nose and made sure I was doing OK, assuring me that any pain, bruising and swelling would be normal and this was very reassuring to hear. As the day panned out the pain got  A LOT worse. The nurses didn't really want to give me any pain medication because of all the other meds I was taking. Not that you couldn't take them together, but they were concerned that all that medication was too much for my body too take all at once. It was very kind of them to consider this, but the pain was so intense that I would have been crawling up the walls..if I had the energy! I actually brought the pain meds with me from the UK. I brought Paracetamol, Ibruprofen and Codeine with me (my GP recommended them), but Dr. Guessous only allowed me to have Paracetamol which worked fine when I took it.
It was hard to eat from the pain in my nose and sleeping was out of the question! I had my nose stuffed straight after the op, I think it was to absorb the blood and to reduce the swelling in my airway, but I'm not sure and I never asked. Anyway, this stuffing was causing a strange pressure sensation in my nose. I would feel air in the top of my nose every time I spoke, breathed, chewed and it would block my ears. I woke up frequently during the night from the pain and at one point it was so bad that I had to buzz the nurse in and ask  for pain medication. I couldn't hack it anymore.