Ashlee's Sinus Surgery

Ashlee has had sinus issues ever since she was little.  She is always getting sinus infections.  There usually is only 3 months out of the year that she doesn't have sinus problems.  When she was 8 they removed her adenoids to help with the issue of recurring infections.  At that time, adenoid removal was the only thing that would really help, because of her age and the fact that the sinus's would continue to change with growth. 
Fast forward three years to now, Ashlee still continues to have infections and headaches on a regular basis.  Antibiotics would only help the infection for 2-3 weeks and then the infection would be back.  Her left sinus is now 90% blocked.  To simply put the situation in the terminology used by the doctor he said: "Your either going to keep treating the infection with antibiotic every few weeks or your going to have surgery to fix the problem.  My motto is if the problem can be fixed, fix it.  Don't keep treating it."  Needless to say, we decided to have the problem fixed.  The surgery has a 90-92% success rate which is really good.  Ashlee will continue to take allergy medication to help with allergies, but as long as things go as expected, the infections will be gone!
Today was surgery day.  Ashlee wasn't scheduled for surgery until 3:30pm but she had to arrive at 1:30pm.  Ashlee was starving.  She was going to go from dinner time Thursday night to dinner time Friday night without being able to eat or drink anything.  Luckily the surgeon was ahead of schedule.  She got in about 40min earlier than expected.  The surgery was an hour and a half long.  The surgeon said the surgery went well.  Ashlee had infection from her cheek area all the way up to her eyes.  The surgeon said the infection "glowed" he could follow it all the way from her cheeks to her eyes (this is in spite of being on antibiotics 2 weeks ago)!  Ashlee is doing good.  She has to take it easy for 3 weeks, no lifting, bending, swimming, nose blowing, etc.  Right now her nose is pretty plugged up from the healing process, but hopefully that will all be over soon.  She has had very little pain too.  Hopefully we made the right choice and she will soon be healed, infection free, and breathing freely.

Before surgery.  She didn't want her picture taken.

Getting ready to go into the operating room.  John got to go with her until she went to sleep.

After surgery.  She doesn't do real well with anesthesia.  She kept saying she wanted the "sleepy medicine" to be gone.  Of course about 2 miles down the road from the surgery center,  the nausea and vomiting began.  YUCK!