- Hi, my name is Clare,
and this week I'm going to be getting surgery
because of a YouTube comment.
So that is pretty much the long and short of it,
I am getting surgery this Wednesday
because of a YouTube comment.
All my life, I've had a slightly crooked nose
and it never bothered me.
As an adult, when I started playing sport,
I started to get hits to the face
with the ball, with elbows,
the nasal issues sort of got worse and worse,
but because it happened gradually,
I sort of didn't really think anything of it,
I got into the habit of giving my nose a little straighten
before I finish my makeup.
It's become part of my makeup routine.
I'm always a very snotty individual,
I'm gonna actually have to go blow my nose here.
Sorry.
(breathes in)
That's the bad one.
(breathes in)
That's the good one.
But I didn't know it had name,
I didn't know it was a condition.
Excuse me, I'm going to blow my nose
and blow my ears clean off here.
(nose blowing)
I didn't know that having one blocked
nasal passageway had a name,
and when I returned to YouTube,
I've had a lot of comments about my appearance,
but one comment stook out with me.
So are you ever going to get that deviated septum
seen to, or not?
Hi, Editing Clare here.
I actually couldn't find the exact comment
that I was referring to,
but in my search, I did find all of these comments
about my nose that I wasn't aware were there before now,
so that's nice.
After seeing that comment, I googled deviated septum
and I was like, oh my god, that sounds like what I have.
I went to the VHS swift care clinic, and true to form,
I waited till I needed to go for something else,
and then I said, also, can you check
if I have a deviated septum.
Deviated septum, why can't I pronounce it?
So I was diagnosed with a deviated septum.
Because I play sport, I was trying to figure out
when would be the best time to get it sorted,
and it turns out,
I actually waited a year without realizing.
The specialist was like, "you got this done a year ago".
It's like, oops.
So my sinus issues started to get really bad
and I felt like I couldn't put it off any longer.
So I went back into the VHS swift care clinic
and I booked an appointment to see the specialist,
to talk about actually getting surgery to fix this thing.
So I went in and I got a date.
Got a date for surgery and then I went back out on the pitch
happy as a clam, then it came up the week before surgery,
and I broke a collarbone.
I then had to get the surgery postponed
because they didn't want to put me under
general anesthetic with a broken collarbone.
I am now on the mend from my broken collarbone,
and I'm not yet back playing sports,
so it's the perfect time to get my nose done,
because I'm not playing anyway.
So I'm going in on Wednesday.
I'm getting my nose fixed,
and I'm very excited, afterwords
to hopefully be able to breath.
So yeah, wish me luck,
and I'm gonna edit this together,
so you're now going to see what happened immediately.
(upbeat music)
- [Nurse] Clare?
- Yeah.
Okay, they think they're gonna have me under by 11 o'clock.
So say goodbye to, hopefully, my nose problems, at least.
It might look the same afterwards, it may not.
One of the doctors just came in with a consent form
and told me that it is a re-fracturing,
which I had convinced myself it wasn't.
All done.
(upbeat music)
It looks scary.
(upbeat music)
I'm rutted.
I'm smiling but you can't tell.
Yay, tea.
(upbeat music)
I'm so glad I got this surgery, I've put it off for ages.
(upbeat music)
I might not be as happy when the painkillers are off.
Does it look straighter?
I've got stitches up here,
paper stitches that will dissolve.
Then this mustache they call it, comes off tomorrow.
And then I have to wear this for a week.
I gotta say,
really love my health insurance, gotten great service.
I feel a little bit sick.
Am I going to be okay to take these
on an empty stomach, actually?
- [Caregiver] Have a biscuit.
- I just had a rice cake, will that do?
So I have to eat that.
Oh, my throat is so sore.
Can't wait to cautiously have a look at it.
- [Caregiver] Want a slice of toast?
- Yes please.
Pain killer.
Ah, my throat is so fucking sore,
it's not ideal for swallowing pills.
Can't show you, but it's all bloody.
I know how to show you.
Ooh, I feel a bit lightheaded, I might go sit down.
Okay, it is 1:00 PM, and she said that I could
take this off after 24 hours, which was 1:00 PM.
I need to get it off cause it's really annoying me,
but I get real queasy at this part.
I might have to eat first, I feel really sick.
It's fine Clare, just take it off.
Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch.
It did say on the sheet that there should have been
a pack up my nose that had been removed.
Kinda looks, oh that is (gags) that is rancid.
Ouch, Jesus.
That's disgusting, I can't look at that.
Okay, so we're gonna take a break from looking at that.
Oh my God, that's actually gross.
I need a break from looking in the mirror for a minute.
So I did manage some cleaning earlier, without throwing up.
Like, why is there like a cut, on the end of my nose?
That looks like a cut, is it?
Oh no, it's just really caked in blood, that's nice.
Oh Jesus, it's not sore,
it just feels absolutely disgusting.
Have you ever stuck one of these up your nose?
It's gross.
Ooh, it's happening again.
I get really queasy around blood and injuries,
and stuff and even through it's not sore,
my stomach's already doing back flips.
I probably shouldn't be to rough here,
I just, I don't want to meet anyone
with blood coming out of my nose.
You know what I mean?
That's pretty normal, isn't it?
Just blew my nose there, and two things struck me,
first of all, that I don't know how to blow my nose
using two nostrils at once, I've never done it,
and also, there's no difference.
First of all, look, that's not, they're not equal.
Like, how does that look okay?
Oh I'm mad now.
I'm on my way to Athlone for the January training.
Actually, I won't be able to train today.
I'm still out for the broken collarbone,
even though it looks okay.
And I don't think my nose is any straighter than it was,
so that was a fucking waste of time, anyway.
I'm up early, I have a meeting, I'm giving a presentation.
The person I'm meeting doesn't actually know
that I have this on my face.
So I'm gonna have to ring them now
and be like, fair warning, so they're not shocked.
After the meeting, I'm going straight to the doctors clinic
to get this off.
I probably could take it off myself,
but it's actually kinda gross underneath,
so I don't want to risk it, just leave it,
at least they know how bad that looks.
This weekend was really, really rough,
and it's still not great.
Saturday my throat started to hurt,
then all night Saturday and all day Sunday
my throat was in agony.
You can kinda hear it in my voice.
I've been using antibiotic spray to try an numb the pain.
I've been eating painkillers like they're sweets,
even though it's really hard to swallow the painkillers.
Okay, the big reveal.
I don't know if I'm in focus, cause I'm not looking
at the camera, I'm not recording yet.
That's much straighter.
Okay, now looking at it in this, I'm like, no it isn't.
Looking at that camera actually upsets me,
because I think it looks worse.
Really crooked, from that camera.
Don't think the commenter is gonna be very happy.
Oh dear.
In this it actually looks worse.
Now to be fair, I don't have a shot of me
on camera going like this before,
so I don't know how bad it was before,
but doesn't look better.
I can breath, that was the point of it.
Quick nose update, I got the bandage off my nose yesterday.
When I woke up this morning,
I was breathing with my mouth closed.
Which is like new for me first thing in the morning.
I was breathing easily, through both nostrils.
So look, they fixed it, right?
I don't look any better, I don't look any worse though.
I've lived with this face for a while.
The only reason I was mad is cause they made
such a fucking point of going on about
how crooked my nose was.
So it's kinda like, they pointed it out to me,
how crooked my nose was, then didn't fix it.
So thank you for that.
And this is gross,
so if you don't like snot stories skip forward.
I've been like putting my finger up there
and checking all is okay.
And then feeling the corner of what I think
is a really small snot, and then I like get ahold of it
and I pull it out and it brings out
this like, it's like those spot squeezing videos,
and then it was just this big red and green lump of snot.
And I threw it out the car window.
I'm hear, it's late at night in my room.
I just wanted to add in that Alex is delighted.
He sleeps fair now.
The other night, I was like, oh my god, Alex,
listen to how quiet my breathing is.
He was like "I know, your fucking nose is now working,
"and now I'm sleeping like a baby,
"you're no longer a mouth breather".
(laughs)
So I'm no longer a mouth breather.
I can breath through my nose.
So that's it.
I don't look any different.
My breathing is a lot different.
I'm glad I did it.
And cheers to the YouTube commenter
that made me realize I needed to do something about it.
And also that I had one.
I suppose the only annoying thing going forward
is the fact that the nose doesn't look different.
Because people are still gonna comment and be like,
our you gonna sort out that deviated septum,
and I'm gonna have to keep writing back saying,
way ahead of ya.
The breathing lads, the breathing on this, is 90.
I'm flat out breathing.
(inhales deeply)
(laughs)
Okay bye, I'll see you in the next one.