Monday, January 16, 2012

Is this it?

Well, I haven't wanted to jinx it, but it is finally here...

Harriet is having migraine surgery tomorrow. They are decompressing the greater occipital nerves at the back of her head; removing a tiny nerve branch near each temple; correcting her deviated septum; correcting a "paradoxical turbinate," or as I call it, a weird-shaped thingie in her nose; and, while she's on the table anyway, removing two moles from her back.

The surgeon is quite confident that this will give Harriet significant migraine relief. As in, this could stop the perma-migraine she has had for 18 months straight. She could go back to being a regular teenager who just gets migraines once in a while. She could get her life back!

I'm afraid to hope, but also afraid NOT to hope.

Recovery will be painful, not to mention gross. She'll have tubes in her nose for a few days, as well as drains COMING OUT OF HER HEAD (ew) that I have to change every four hours for the next 3 to 5 days. I picked up all of the post-op meds today, and will spend an exciting evening getting all of this stuff organized so I can manage my kid's pain without OD'ing her.

Some people wake up from this surgery and can already tell that the migraine is gone. Others take a few months as the nerves have to settle down after being compressed and in pain for so long. And some find out that the migraine stopped at the surgery sites but, surprise, they also need the forehead nerves done too (which we would have to do 6 months or more from now).

We are just praying, and hoping.

Maybe, just maybe... Maybe this is it!

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