It’s been ten days since my nose job. And again, it wasn’t the kind of nose job that makes you handsome. It’s the kind that makes you breathe like a normal person.

And I have to say, I’m breathing so well now that it feels like I get a tornado of oxygen with every inhale. Literally moles of O2 up my nostrils, straight into my lungs, circulated to my brain, and then into my fingertips that allow me to type this post that you’re reading for some reason (probably because you’re nosy).

Compare that to before my procedure, where it didn’t feel like that at all. It felt like breathing with a garbage bag over my face.

That said, the baller who fixed my nose is Dr. Mani H Zadeh, who corrected my deviated septum, enlarged turbinates, and nasal valve collapse using minimally invasive techniques that he learned from medical residency and also from Satan. Not only is he an extremely competent surgeon, but he genuinely cares about me as his patient and even makes himself readily available over the phone. Other patients seem to share the same sentiment, and I can’t recommend him enough.