Mr. Xav

Well, I dunno if you knew this already, but I've just been in for an operation. Here's all the details:

For a few months now I have had some breathing problems. It felt like a very heavy cold... except blowing my nose didn't help. The doctor did some allergy tests, put me on antibiotics, but nothing worked.

Eventually my doctor, Mr. Habashi, booked me in for a CT scan. Yes, the one where you lie down on a stretcher and go through a revolving tunnel to scan your insides. The one that costs thousands of pounds per scan - good thing for private healthcare, eh?

So I had a CT X-Ray scan done of my sinuses and nose. A week later, Mr. Habashi called me in and showed me the damage. Essentially, there were two problems with my upper breathing system:

1) My sinuses (little pockets of air behind your cheeks) had become blocked with extra flesh. There was also some sort of infection there, causing some nasty pus to build up as well (nothing you can see from the outside).

2) My nose septum (the...

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Well, I finally managed to get the new blog working! The details can be found here: http://www.mrxav.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=89

This is the new blogging feature. You can post blogs!