A week after Jesse's sinus surgery he sends me selfie from work saying, "first real nose bleed!" thinking it was just a normal fine thing. I panicked a little knowing that bleeding after surgery is no bueno. He came into the office and --I will spare the gory details-- he got his nose cauterized and we were back home. At about 4:30 am the next morning he wakes up and the other side of his nose is bleeding. Luckily, I have our doctors number so I texted him and he immediately calls and tells us to head to the emergency room and he will meet us there. We got to the hospital around 5:30 and the the doctor got there around 6:30 (because no one called him like they were supposed to....). The doctor went to work and --sparing the even gorier details-- he was cauterized and packed once again. We were told to just wait there until the doctor was done with his morning surgery cases and to see if Jesse would bleed anymore. If he bled anymore we were told that he would need more surgery to see where he was bleeding. And he bled. A lot. We were in the little ER room from 5:30 to 11:00 when they came and got him to go into surgery. Jesse was in surgery from about 11:30 to 1:30 and he woke up A LOT better than his first surgery. The doctor came back to talk to me before I was able to see him and said that he didn't find any one source of the bleeding and he was able to cauterize quite a bit. We were admitted to the hospital and had to wait until about 6:00 pm so that the doctor could make sure he was on the mend and able to go home. At 6:30 we went home! And now he has been doing very well. We have been sleeping at his parent's so that he can be in a recliner and we are taking it super easy. We are going to Oregon next week so he needs to get better!
I am so thankful that we both have such great jobs that were so understanding and supportive of our situation. I know that we have been blessed throughout this healing process and now hopefully we will not be back to the ER ever!!
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