Sinus Surgery the Old-Fashioned Way
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Sinus Surgery the Old-Fashioned Way
I had a little hard luck in a way. I had sinus trouble bad.
It used to actually bother my ears and my eyes and my throat used
to swell and all the rest of it. So I had gone, I got my
foreman and he took me to Inverness to a doctor. I had been to
him before. He said, “Get your small kit Mr. Austin, come with
me", meaning shave and whatever. I never been in a place like
that before nor since. You could walk in off of the street there
and you just go in the hospital and do whatever you had to do.
If you wanted an operation or whatever and you just get up and
go home. So anyway, he took me down and that was by the way
a new hospital that had just been opened by the Queen Mother and
the Queen today and her sister, the Royal Northern Infirmary in
Inverness, lovely place. So, it’s a memory I won’t forget either.
I went in there and was well received. I saw a doctor
and he already prescribed inhalations and cloud over your
head for a couple of days. Next they said, “You have to go to
the operation room.” Latched you onto a table and there was
about three doctors and the man doing it was - I just forget his
name now - he was a specialist, (inaudible) specialist. They
stood there measuring what they were going to do and all I hear
him say, “We’ll try 3/16th.” They drilled my nose with an
ordinary drill.
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