I’ve been proudly wearing my (imaginary) I Survived Getting a Nose Tube badge. Wasn’t it so nice of them to match the tube to my hair and complexion? I took this shortly after getting to the hotel after the procedure. If I don’t look real thrilled it’s because I was not real thrilled! But so relieved. So this is my relieved, unthrilled face. The handy dandy nose tube came with an even handier dandier monitor that I got to wear around my neck for 24-hours. My instructions were that if I coughed, cleared my throat, experienced heartburn, burped, ate, drank, laid down, or stood up, I was to push various buttons so that those things would be recorded. Of course, the hope was that significant symptoms would show up because that would mean there was a good possibility that my lung problems have indeed been caused by ongoing long-term reflux which can very possibly be cured with surgery. If anyone had overheard Steve’s and my conversations in our hotel room they would have thought we were crazy people. I’d say, “Steve! I just felt heartburn!” And he’d say, “That’s great news!” Don’t tell us we don’t know how to have […]