Since the nose surgery, I have had to rinse with a solution made with pickling salt. I feel like I'm turning the inside of my nose into a tasty bar snack. This is not a pleasant feeling. I have to stick a syringe into my nose and squeeze while sniffing. It ends up feeling great, but the drip tastes terrible.

More specifically, what I have to do is "irrigate your [my] nasal cavities with saline solution four to five times a day, or more if it is found to be helpful." I use quotes because these are word for word directions that were given to me by an actual doctor. And I write them down here to point out something that disturbs me... If found helpful I do it more, if not found helpful I have to keep doing it anyway.

What exactly the doctors did to my nose is a question on many minds. I had triple by-pass nasal surgery. The doctor removed three sections of nasal cavity from my right thigh and used them to open up new air passages in my nose: two on the right side and one on the left. While this was done purely to improve my breathing, there are some aesthetic hopes. Mainly, that the lumps created from the by-pass will counteract my nose's slant to the left and give me a somewhat symmetrically balanced face.