Well, I just went through the nose surgery thing last year. They cut and pulled all kinds of stuff up there. The leftovers from a not so tame youth I guess. The part that freaked me out was they removed my septum, put it on a flat chunk of marble, and beat it flat with a hammer. Then they shoved it back up in there, tacked it up and splinted it.

I, like you, was hating life. I found that a nice bioling pot of water with a towel over my head softened up some of that junk in your airways and let me cough it out. It also eased the pain a bit.

Just my 2 cents.