just nod if you can hear me

I spent the last four days in Bat Country, while recovering from major sinus surgery. I’ll spare the gory (and oh my god are they gory) details, but when all this packing comes out of my sinuses on Tuesday, I can look forward to not snoring all night and waking up with a skull crushing sinus headache for the first time in about ten years. I’m planning a party, all by myself with some toast and a cup of coffee.

I don’t think I’ll be posting much until I’m back to normal, but I didn’t want anyone to think I’ll fallen down a well next to little Timmy Turner.O’Toole. (My bad. I’m so full of painkillers and meds that all I can do ism,nsdnsakazza,mmp.)

Unless Sting wants to write a song about it, in which case, please send your love down the well.

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118 thoughts on “just nod if you can hear me”

  1. My wife had a sinus procedure a few years ago. In a few days, you will wonder how you ever managed to take a breath before this. Hang in there.

  4. Hey people, Wil is only telling half the story here.
    Yes, he did have sinus surgery.
    But…
    It was to remove a crayola he jammed in there when he was a kid.
    He’s also leaving out that at his private party he will also have about ten lines of high grade Bolivian marching powder with his toast and coffee.
    Fact: Wil’s sinus problem ruined his childhood relationship with Drew Barrymore!
    Hey Wil, get well soon, and let’s hope they don’t have to do the surgery more than once like some of the comments from people on here.
    Take care dude,
    Mark.

  5. I wasn’t warned that it was going to bleed and feel like my brains were being pulled out. I was still a young thing. I’m sure it’s not as bad as I remember. I was like 16, I think. It really bled a lot. Before that I wasn’t able to breathe through my nose at all. It’s not all better, but at least I can close my mouth now without feeling like I’m suffocating. Good luck!

  7. Hope you feel better soon. I’ll be thinking of you Tuesday, when I have my own usual toast and coffee. I really hope you never have anymore sinus problems. 10 years is a long time to have to suffer.

  10. Hi, Wil. Get well soon.
    I know the kind of stuff you go through. I have a deviated septum and usualy have sinus problems around Spring and Fall. I just got over one bout where I had to take Claritin for 2.5 weeks in order to dry and clear my sinuses. Some years are worse than others. It goes away….eventually….but it never goes away for good.
    Hopefully yours is away for good!
    🙂
    Scott

  12. Wil-
    Jamming to some Comfortably Numb and dropping my Dark Side of the Moon hat down the well for ya! Get well soon my Pink Floyd loving brotha from anotha motha! Enjoy the rest and the Meds man! 😀

  15. Hey Wil, can’t sinus surgery alter your voice? How will that affect your voice acting gigs? Sounds painful, so I hope you feel better soon!
    xxxx

  16. I’ve had sinus problems forever as well, but I’ve always chickened out of surgery! Get well really, really soon, Wil! 🙂

  18. Don’t be disappointed if you still snore. The surgery doesn’t always fix that.
    My hub had it a couple years ago, and while it fixed his sinus infections, chronic migraines, and inability to breathe through his nose, he still snores.
    There can be other factors that cause it.
    But it was still totally worth it for him. 🙂
    Get better soon.

  20. Hope your recovery is fast, Wil. As someone who’s had to have surgery in that general area of the body, ouch, I can relate. We’ll keep the light on while you recover.

  21. Get well soon…hope that you are feeling better and the long-term advantages seriously outweight the annoyances of the recovery phase.
    Also, relieved to know that you have avoided falling down the well because Lassie was busy this weekend with a marathon of MST3K recordings.

  22. Wil, if I can help you out with a session or two of Pranic Healing, just nod. This also works over distance, in this case Germany –> California.
    Best wishes,
    Nicole

  25. Hope your recovery goes well, Wil! And dude — just think of all the Doctor Who you can catch up on while you’re laid up. 🙂

  26. Wow…I had no idea you were in such a bad way. Then again, I don’t follow as closely as many others do…
    Anyhoo, hope you feel better soon. I’ve known people who’ve had sinus/nasal passage surgery before, and from what I’ve heard, it’s one “great big bunch of no fun” indeed.
    Take care,
    —chris

  31. OOOF, I had some serious sinus surgery about 3 years ago. It was complete hell to recover from, but I don’t regret a second of it. Getting your first real night’s sleep = priceless.
    I hope you feel better soon!

  32. Congrats on the surgery. I had three sinus infections this year, it’ll be interesting to see what my allergist suggests next week! ;(
    Here’s something to cheer you up. I read this on Cartoon Brew and I thought of your post on VA’s…enjoy!
    http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/spongebob-voice-overs
    “One of the highlights of the Annie Awards last Friday night was a small video concocted by the cast of Spongebob Squarepants (M.C. Tom Kenny, along with presenters Rodger Bumpass, Carolyn Lawrence and Bill Fagerbakke), created to prove they shouldn’t be stereotyped simply as Spongebob, Patrick, Squidward and Sandy.”

  33. Wil, Once the packing is out you will feel great. My wife and I met you at the Phoenix Comicon. I gave you the children’s book that I wrote.(Sorry,I thought you kids were younger)Anyway I hoped you liked it. We loved “Space Oddity and “Just a Geek” was fantastic.Get well soon.

  34. OUCH!!!! Sinus surgery hurts, but it is well worth the pain when it’s over. Sending healing vibes out that you feel better soon. Enjoy your pain killers!

  35. As a fellow sufferer, you have my sympathy. Get well soon.
    Kimya Dawson did write a song called “Underground” that has a part that totally summed up my sinus problems. The part goes:
    my head is pounding I can’t stop the pounding
    I think it is going to explode
    there are plus and minuses to sinuitus
    like sometimes I get to go home
    but mostly it hurts so bad I think I’m dying
    I just blew my nose and now I feel like crying

  39. I didn’t know you were a snorer. I have a friend who is a snorer. So much so that he and his wife have separate bedrooms. He recently had the ‘snoring’ surgery too because he is soon to be a daddy and didn’t want to wake the wee babe every night.
    So far, it seems to be working (according to my friend’s wife). Hope it all goes well with you.
    Until then, Nod. And do some Firefly and ST:TNG marathoning for me.

  40. Get well soon – just don’t go and try to steal the air from Planet Druidia (bad Spaceball pun – I have no idea where that came from) – Godspeed on your recovery.

  41. All the best Wil! When that toast and coffee party comes, keep this in mind:
    “Given that God is infinite, and given that the Universe is infinite… would you like a toasted tea cake?”

  45. Wil, I send you the *nod*. Godspeed on your recovery! Hopefully you will be able to find just the right comfy position for you to rest in. Lots of pillows are a big help. Take care.

  47. Wil, I’m currently working on what I think is a tooth abscess, so I’m also taking a lot of pain meds and sleep aids. I’m right with you on the – as you so eloquently put it in your updated post -“ism,nsdnsakazza,mmp.”
    Thanks for fighting your way through the haze and letting us know how things are going. Please be well.

  48. From a person who is currently going through a killer sinus infection right now, let me just say I can sympathize with your pain. I hope this surgery makes you feel a whole lot better from now on!
    Your partner in snot,
    PE

  49. 16 years ago I had surgery that corrected a deviated septum, cleared out a polyp of one of my sinuses, cleared chronically inflamed tissue from a different sinus cavity and also did a few other gross things. Long story short, it was a really great decision that virtually eliminated my debilitating sinus headaches. I wish you the same success that I had. Get well soon!

  50. gnod to the Wil.
    My wife had sinus surgery a few years ago, and we’re both _much_ happier 🙂 She still snores, but it’s much more tolerable; only the ibuprofen-susceptible regular headaches for her now and not the incapacitating ones.
    Your happy place would be a good location just prior to removal… And, yes, there’s quite a bit of room in there – I’m just disappointed that rmd beat me to the TARDIS comment.
    This is comment #100, I believe. Just noting the obvious: Wil, you’ve been missed. And glad to know that you’re not in well. – g^2

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