It's been three days since my nose surgery and I just had the cotton removed today. It's not as bad as the first or second day, but there's still a mixture of blood and mucus flowing out, and I just can't remove the gauze under my nose... If it were just mucus, I would wipe it away as it came, but since there's blood mixed in there... Ugh... I'll apply eye ointment regularly, but is it okay if I leave the gauze under my nose until the bleeding stops?