Piece o' cake, I had it done in '99. The deviated septum thing that is. They also removed some screwed-up turbinate tissue. You'll wake up with some hollow plastic "splints" in your beak, they'll be tacked in with a couple of stitches. They'll also be full of goo, and you won't be able to breathe through your nose for a few days. This part will be miserable.

When they take them out, you'll be sucking air through your schnozz like a Shop Vac! I swear to God, my first breath through my nose, the airflow through there nearly knocked me over. It'll make a helluva difference, but over time it'll close back up some, you won't always breathe like a Hoover.

But, whatever you do, DO NOT get the surgery for sleep apnea where they lop off your uvula and blow off the rear shelf of your upper palate with a laser! I had that done at the same time, and Sweet Mother O' God, I've NEVER been so miserable in my life.

I've had a broken neck, a broken back, broken leg, broken arm, snapped the ACL in my right knee, and two severe tears in the meniscus of the left knee. But that surgery beat 'em all painwise. Think about a severe sore throat for 3+ months, I had to use an atomizer with a high-powered liquid pain killer/numbing solution directly on the area. It was awful. And it screwed up my swallowing for about 3 years. Every time I'd try to eat something, bits of the first bite would go into my windpipe and I'd go into choking and coughing fits. That finally went away, but the healing took years.

So, deviated septum surgery, good! Sleep apnea surgery, BAD!