It’s one week later and I’m still floating high when thinking of the bar exam results. Yesterday, I got to answer a question that I had avoided for the past year: “What is your occupation?” It was thrilling to respond with “lawyer.” Granted, the circumstances were not ideal. I was sitting in a medical office, waiting for an ENT specialist to assess my nose. When I met my doctor, his first question was, “What type of law do you practice?” I think he was fishing to see if my answer was med-mal, which it is not. 
Beyond that introductory conversation, the rest of our meeting was pretty painful. He examined my nose, my sinus cavity, and my ear canals (the ears because they connected to the sinuses somehow). The doctor determined that the left side of my bridge was off-kilter and that some sort of cartilage panel on the left side had collapsed. Hence, this is why I can’t breathe out of my left nostril. The solution? Performing a “closed reduction.” He used instruments that could easily be mistaken for torture devices out of a horror movie and after 45 minutes, I left the office with a beautiful nose cast.
Yep, I have a nose cast. And, I may still need surgery. We’ll just have to see how the nose is doing once the cast is removed on June 2.
So here I am, drugged up, with my nose cast.
It’s incredibly uncomfortable. It can’t be removed. I just about fell out of the chair when he told me that I couldn’t wash my face with it on. I begged him to allow me to exfoilate it before he put on the cast, but he wouldn’t let me. Instead, he rubbed it down with some alcohol pads. I imagine my little nose pores are incredibly blocked. And of course, since leaving the office there is an unbelievable itch right on the side of my nose.
Ow….! I hope the drugs are helping with the pain.
Laura
May 24th, 2008
Nose reduction=rebreaking? Ow! I can’t imagine not being able to wash my face-esp. my nose for that long! That doc is nuts!
gina
May 25th, 2008
The Nose Knows !!!!
Dad.
May 26th, 2008
I think you look hot.
*ehlan*
May 28th, 2008