CF | Sinus Woes

Freddydog being trendy and chalking his hair a nice pink ombre (may I stress that I didn't do this to him, he rolled around outside where kids had been drawing with chalk in the ground! Nothing to do with anything I'll be talking about but I had to show you because it was so funny!)

I don't think I've been very chatty lately, usually I ramble on about all sorts but I guess I just haven't felt like talking much. Mainly because I've been quite ill still because of the hot weather making it difficult to breathe and I'm still kind of recovering from the after affects of being so ill last month. It made me lose loads of weight and I've really been struggling to put it back on which is bad because a low weight means it's harder to fight off CF crappiness which means I get ill which means I can't eat and I get a bit trapped in a cycle. Also my stupid sinuses have been making it hard to breathe on top of having rubbish lungs and I get constant headaches (like it hurts to even fill in my eyebrows...I told my doctor this and he said 'I don't know what you mean but I'm sorry about that!') So headaches mean I don't feel like looking at a laptop screen so I'm so behind on commenting and reading! But I may finally have a solution, I had clinic at the Ear, Nose and Throat place last week and discovered that my sinusitis (which is very common with people with CF) is more severe than other doctors told me and that I have a deviated septum (aka the middle part of my nose is wonky) which is blocking my left side so now I know why I find it hard to breathe from there! He told me this by looking at my CT scan that I had way back in November, I've seen plenty of different ENT doctors since then so it's annoying that they didn't tell me this before then. All they did before was offer me washes and nose sprays which I've been doing for ages but they don't really work. So this doctor has put me on the list for surgery to clear everything and straighten out my nose which won't cure my sinus problems but might ease the symptoms which sounds good to me! However I don't think my CF doctor is too keen for me to have surgery, especially as there's no guarantee it'll actually work, so she's trying to get hold of a new nebuliser machine for me which is supposed to deliver drugs to the sinuses as well as the lungs to see if that helps. We're not sure what will happen yet but the list for surgery is loooong so I'll be waiting a while. I just know something needs to be done because it's giving me constant headaches, toothaches, eyeaches and faceaches and it's driving me a bit insane now. Plus I look like a weirdo because I'm constantly massaging my face to stop the pain haha. 

God I sound like a right complainer! But you know how I like to keep you up to date 100% truthfully about the ins and outs of living with CF otherwise this blog wouldn't be a very useful account of what CF is really like which is one of my main aims of blogging! In more exciting news though I finally had my first driving lesson last week and LOVED it. Cannot wait for my next one, can't believe I was so scared before! 

Well that's what's been happening with me and CF lately! Hope you've been well, I'm going to try and be better at catching up with my bloglovin' feed!