We found out why they straightened John's nose and what that meant. He had a deviated septum which made it hard for the doctors to do the surgery. The side of his nose that they were doing the surgery on was the small side. So after working around it for a little bit, the doctor decided he could do a better job at the surgery if he fixed John's septum. So they moved bone and tissue, maybe cartilage (I can't remember), then stapled it all back together. So John has several staples along both sides of his septum that will dissolve on their own. No wonder his nose felt broken!
Inside John's nose was still pretty swollen and irritated from the surgery so he hadn't drained very much. So the doctor used a vacuum to clean everything out. John is on strict orders to do a nose rinse 3 times (or more) per day, plus Nasonex. No blowing his nose yet for another week. The doctor hopes this cleaning from yesterday will help everything heal better.
No pathology results yet on the tissue they removed from the surgery. Also, yesterday the doctor said that he did find the tumor, it was just super small compared to what they were guessing. It was just a tiny bump so they did remove the whole thing.
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