Congrats on taking the biggest step...having this done.
It's going to be pretty uncomfortable right after the surgery...swollen face and the lack of breathing through you nose, which I venture to guess you haven't done much of anyway....your head feels like a balloon and weighs 100lbs. Think Vicodin, 750s, they work wonders. (oh yeah, swallowing is an adventure too) But EVERY DAY you get better, the swelling goes down and you start looking like yourself again....take pictures, you will be amazed how fast this happens. Then as the healing continues and your senses come back, you get to the point that you will ask yourself, "why did I wait so long to do this?..I feel so much better."
Jeff, you have suffered so much pain already that the recovery from this event will not be as bad as you think...because now you see the prize at the end. Before this you were caught in the "Loop of Hell"....patching up things and really feeling no relief, which effects your mind set and makes you even more miserable. Your done with that now. There is the possible lose of smell, one that the Lawyers make all Doctors bring to the fore front "just in case." It will be gone when you wake up but with luck, will come back slowly, the fun part is rediscovering all the smells you took for granted...you'll be like a kid again sniffing all kinds of things. There is also the possibility of slight nerve damage and that your sense of smell may be weakened, which is a small price to pay for the relief of pain IMO, but you will be able to amaze your friends at parties when you can stick a piece of Limburger up there with no ill effects! After the sinus reconstruction, the septum repair will be a walk in the park...the removal of the scar tissue on the nose tip will only improve your chances in Hollywood, but then again, Karl Malden made a handsome living with his schnoz the way it was.
When you are all nicely healed in 9 months to a year, you'll have a humi filled with some nice aged smokes waiting for you....then when you light one up for the first time since the operation and see all that white smoke billowing around and filling the room...BANG!, it will hit you.....you will remember what a fine cigar truly smells & tastes like again....pure heaven my man, pure heaven.
As for the cigar to smoke now, who cares, smoke them all and celebrate......you're going to be able to breath & sleep peacefully again!
Good Luck :thumbs: