My name is Terry Morrow.
I'm from Shreveport, Louisiana, and I have a bumpy nose.
My nose feels bumpy and rubbery.
My nose has gotten a little bit bigger on the right side.
Sometimes I get boils on the inside of my nose and they're really painful.
I've always had a problem with my complexion since I was very young.
My nose started growing about seven years ago, and as my nose grew, I let my hair grow,
kind of cover it up, balance it out.
Breathing for me during the day is not that big of a problem.
But at night I'll be gasping for breath because I can't get any air through my
nostrils. When I lay down and try to fall asleep, I can't breathe because my nose is
weighted down over my nostrils.
And sometimes I put my arm over my head and hold my nose up with my fingers.
And then I fall asleep like that.
Sometimes I'll wake up in the middle of the night after I've fallen asleep and I'm not
holding my nose up.
I'll be gasping for air.
In a wake up.
It's really frightening.
I don't know what the name of my condition is.
One time I went to a doctor's appointment and the doctor noticed my nose and prescribed
me a cream for it.
And I applied it and it had no effect on it at all.
So I really don't feel comfortable going to the doctor.
Come on, fat girl. I know.
Come on. Run up in her pocket.
Girlfriend. Audience.
There you go, Dad. Can make a farmer out of you yet, Pops.
I have seven children.
I've got 17 grandkids, one great grandchild, and two on the way.
Heather is my oldest daughter.
She's a jewel. I love her dearly.
Everybody's coming over for the holidays and leave.
I'll be here. And Cody and Charley haven't seen you since.
Eight years now.
How come you two haven't come in so long?
You uncomfortable with my nose the way it is, Heather.
You always knew where he stood with him because he's just open and loving.
And the hippie dad, He had long hair and listen to the seventies rock and just real
laid back.
And now it's a part of him.
Is not even there anymore.
Have you talked to Charlie?
Uncle Charlie, Have you gone to see him play lately?
I did once.
And that was the one biggest bond I feel like we've always had is the music.
You're the coolest, Dad.
I miss you.
I miss spending time with my family.
I have a seven year old great grandson.
I've kind of.
Put off meeting because I didn't want to scare him at such a young age with my nose.
I want things like they used to be so I can get it fixed.
You'll start coming around again.
Yeah.
Right. I miss you, man.
You know he'd be dead.
I would have a lot more confidence in myself if I could get my nose repaired.
I really am looking forward to getting out there and spending time with people again.
If Dr. Lee can help me, I believe it'll help me be able to sleep through the night better
as far as my breathing.
You know, there's lots of things that it'll make a difference then.
Hello? Hello.
How are you doing?
Very nice to meet you, sir.
Thanks for coming all the way out here.
Would you come from Louisiana?
Louisiana. Well, welcome.
First of all, you look like one of the members of Z.Z Top.
So I guess you're seeing us for your nose.
Yes, ma'am. Do you know what this is?
Oh, you know what's called Rhino Fima.
It looks like from. From from this distance, rhino femur is like a severe form of rosacea.
You might have heard of rosacea before.
Some people.
Especially men, they can get a thickening of their skin on the nose in particular.
Does it cause you pain or does it cause any discomfort for you?
I have a hard time breathing.
It's uncomfortable.
I'm going to take a look. Okay.
What you do.
Terry, is such a sweet, soft spoken gentleman, really, with this gruff exterior.
And maybe he has this exterior, too, to kind of distract from this extensive run of pharma
that he has this type of extensive.
Reinhard, FEMA is certainly a treatment that is not without risks.
It's involves a quite a lot of your nose here, but it's really the front of your nose
that you have the brunt of it.
I just concerned mainly because this is a pretty large area with a good blood supply to
it. So that's what I think about.
Obviously, this is a big case of rhino femur and I don't want to promise the world that I
can take all of this out in one get go because there's risks.
I know I have to take this off slowly and gradually.
I mean, I never know what's under each layer here.
I mean, who knows what you're going to come across underneath there?
I'm going to give it a try.
I can't promise everything, but let's see what we can do there.
Och, all right, I'm going to go set up over there and I'll call you back.
Okay? Thank you.
I know that Doctor Lee's concerned about how advanced my condition is.
One of my biggest fears is if the bleeding gets out of control and we have to stop it.
What? What will happen then?
My target is this large knob right here, essentially.
But the bleeding is concerning to me.
You know, sometimes you get like some good veins that come out and populate this area.
It might be too much for you to handle, so.
But let's see. Might be able to do it all today or we might have.
Have you come back again?
Just do whatever you need to do.
There's only so much numbing that you can give any patient on any given day, certainly
at high levels that can really affect your heart, that can actually cause toxicity to
your heart. Let me come up one side first and let's see how well we can do this, how
quickly and how efficiently with this little bleeding as possible and with the most
comfort as possible.
As it comes out of the little pore.
So sorry, that's just the numbing medicine coming out of the pores.
That's why I wear all my gear to today.
I'm using the surgical electro cautery loop cuts through a tissue, but at the same time,
it's going to help to seal little blood vessels there so you have less bleeding.
So she's going to turn on this vacuum here.
Make sure nothing ever hurts you.
Pop that off.
Rhino femur is really a thickening of oily skin.
You get these enlarged pores that oil can store in, right?
Oil and keratin or dead skin cells.
Interestingly, a lot of the size of his nose doesn't have so much to do with actual skin
there. It's there are big pockets of butter in there.
There's big pockets of oil in there.
These are some of the biggest butter pockets I've ever seen.
Doing? Well, it's like it's so dense in there, it gets harder to cut.
So now I'm looking at a.
No see, that's where it's going to end.
So I actually don't want to go too far there.
There's like little pieces of skin.
That I take off and it's like bacon bits.
The oil coming off of it.
This tip doesn't cut this guy.
I am getting a lot of moisture collecting on my electro cautery tool, and this is slowing
me down because it's not getting hot enough to cut through the tissue.
It's not as efficient as it usually is.
I feel very well it does.
Oh, good.
I like that. It feels better.
You feel like lighter? Maybe just solid tissue here.
Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
I can feel a little bit of pain, but I want her to keep going because I wanted her to
finish it up.
You might get some more of those as we get closer down to the bottom here.
Stopping to cauterize these oozing blood vessels is certainly slowing me down.
And that is something that I'm also considering, because taking longer here will
mean that the numbing will wear off.
Oh, sorry. I'm sorry.
Damn it.
I'm here with Terri, who has pretty extensive renal FEMA, and I'm trying to really
efficiently shave off this extra skin from his nose.
But he has a lot of oozing.
He's got a lot of little pockets of butter, so to speak.
And that's very much slowing me down.
And these are things that I'm considering because the numbing is only going to last so
long.
It's getting smaller.
You probably can see that a little out of the corner eye, though.
You probably just want to keep your eyes closed anyways.
Sorry. I'm sorry.
This is really oily up here.
The deeper I get, the larger pockets of oil I find.
Sometimes I think if I squeeze out more of it, maybe it'll get smaller, and then I won't
have to do as much.
And the bigger the blood.
Vessels, we're going to have one little baby Uzor there.
Want to get us.
I feel like I'm on this rhino.
I'm a battlefield. It's like I'm hitting all these landmines of pocket butter, and I'm
getting these blood vessels that want to ooze.
And we have Terry, who's feeling some discomfort here.
So now my goal is really focus on finishing the right side of his nose as much as I can.
You know, I'm going to just trudge on through and get to the end, though.
I've got to get to the flag.
I got to capture it. Look at that's like a little treasure here.
In a way. I mean.
Down completely.
Oh, sorry. Nothing right there.
Hold on. I'm sorry.
Make him cry.
This is hurting you. Huh?
A little bit more.
A lot more. When you say a little.
I know it means a lot.
It's not.
Bad. Oh, it is.
Yes, it is. This the whole thing here.
I'm just trying to squeeze out as much of this of the extra little stuff you got in
here, because I think that's going to lead to being smaller, too, in itself.
Yeah.
Terry is such a trooper.
He really sat there so patiently as we took a good amount of time really to remove the
larger portion of off.
I'm on his nose.
I think that it's unsafe for me to fully proceed here because we're really reaching
the limit of a safe level of numbing that he can really receive within a 24 hour period.
So I would really like to see how he heals and to come back another day and to remove
the rest of it. At least now this should improve his breathing tremendously.
You are definitely a two timer.
But we're getting that. I've definitely made a difference here for sure.
I'm going to sit you up for a second and let you take off the pizza skin on you.
I'm just going to show you, though, what you have so far.
Well, let's take that out of your nose.
Oh, yeah? Yeah.
A lot better.
Yeah, a lot better. All right.
It looks good on that side.
I feel happier about myself when I look in the mirror now.
Big difference. Big improvement could surely breathe better already.
I'd love to see you, like in about a month, because it's going to take a couple of weeks
for it to heal.
Feel great. Feel great.
I can breathe better already.
I was wanting it all done in one day, but whatever it takes.
Thank you much.
It's not goodbye forever. But it's a goodbye for now.
Och, och, Great.
Looking good.
I hope when I come back, he's happy with how it turned out and finish the other side and
make it look just as good as this one.