Day 13: Christmas was hectic.....

Hey! I'm really sorry that I haven't had time to post but I had heaps to do over Christmas and I was so tired!! That is the biggest thing I am noticing right now.... How tired I am. I will be doing the simplest things and all of a sudden I just can't do any more and I have to take a nap. :( oh well, it gets better. I still don't have the tape off my chin yet which is really annoying. It looks gross. Only four more days though. On the up side, I did not have to purée my Christmas dinner and I managed to eat my whole plate in tiny mouthfuls. I was very proud of myself. It did take me about an hour, but it was most definitely worth it!!

The swelling on my face is all gone! Yay! My nose is still a little puffy but it doesn't really bother me that much. The molars on my left side don't really touch yet, but I am assuming that a little bit of orthodontic touch up will do the trick. The rubber bands I'm wearing could have something to do with it too. They are supposed to pull my top jaw forward so that, when all the tissues heal and go back to their proper places, they pull it back to where it is supposed to be.

I have been reading my posts for the past week, and I realized that they aren't too clear. Sorry about that, I was having difficulty concentrating, so I will go back and edit them to make reading them a bit easier. There are things I left out because I've only just remembered them and things that didn't really need to be there. It will all be fixed soon.

I'm attending one of my friends birthday parties on the weekend which promised to be an enjoyable experience. The tape on my chin is still manky looking, meaning that I get to enjoy the repeated question, " So what happened to you?" But the plus side is that my friend just had her wisdom teeth taken out so at least she sort of knows what I am going through. I also probably won't be able to eat anything, but that was a given anyway. :) Oh well, I am going to have fun and my friend will enjoy her party so I suppose that's all that matters. ;)

Day 7: 1 week down

Yay! I have finally reached the one week mark! It feels like it went really quickly which surprised me. I don't actually have any pain, unless I try to do something that I shouldn't, but my top jaw including my gums, teeth and roof of my mouth is still numb, which makes brushing a pain. I was able to get takeaway last night, and I ate all of it in tiny, bite sized pieces. It was soooo good! I am definitely looking forward to being able to eat a home cooked meal and chew it though.  My face doesn't look too bad, a little puffy, and the bruising is going yellow, but on the whole, it's not too bad. Ten days to go until I can take the tape off!

Day 6: Pain Meds Make You Tired

Hey.....

I really wasn't feeling up to posting for a couple of days, I have just been really tired. Nothing significant has really happened either... I wasn't very swollen to begin with, but it has gone down even more. I have been eating real food puréed, but I was able to break a piece of chicken into tiny pieces and put it into my mouth, which was delightful!! I worked out that it will be around two and a half weeks on Dec 31 st, which is the day I'm allowed to take the tape of my chin. It's also around the time that I'm supposed to be eating normally again! So I think my New Years is going to be delicious this year!

Day 5: Chipmunks aren't so cute...

I have been told that I look like a chipmunk and have come to the decision that if a chipmunk looks like this, they really aren't that cute. My swelling has increased slightly, and the bruising is starting to come out. I have a piece of tape running across my chin to hold the tissues in place, and it looks like it is pushing everything up causing my cheeks to be huge. But it also looks like it is holding back the bruising a bit. I don't feel too bad and if I keep taking my pain meds then I'm not too uncomfortable. It's definitely getting better. :)

Day 4: Rubber bands

I was discharged from hospital on day four which was relatively uneventful. I got to the car without falling over, which was great. We had to stop at the surgeons office to get the rubber bands put on, which was eventful. We sat in the waiting room for ten minutes, the full waiting room, and one of the nurses saw all the funny looks I was getting, so she put me in one of the waiting rooms down the hall. He took me into the consulting room and opened my mouth to put the bands in which was a little painful. I have to change the bands every three or four days until I go back to see him on the 10th of January and I don't have to wear a splint!! Yay! Best news I had that day. 

Day 3: There'll be a crash when you come off that morphine...

They took the drip off on day three, leaving only the thing in my hand to put antibiotics and occasionally pain meds into. Along with my supply of fluids, my morphine was taken too. This wouldn't have been a big deal, except the surgeon visited me, as he had,apparently, been doing daily, and told me to expect a bout of depression when the morphine had been dredged out of my system. I didn't really think anything of it. But it happens. Trust me. I was fine for most of the day, sleeping, watching tv, but as soon as my parents left I started to get restless. I had developed a rash along my arms that seemed like the biggest thing in the world and everything was so scary. The nurse gave me some pain meds to help me sleep, because the reason I couldn't sleep was because I was in pain. I was crying uncontrollably until they kicked in and then I had the best sleep of my entire stay in hospital, a whole eight hours. 

Day 2: Caramel milkshakes.

My swelling increased a bit on the second day, but I was still talking and doing my best to eat as much as I could through the syringe. They gave me a menu to fill out and I almost cried when I saw what I couldn't have. There were curries, chicken, salad, trifle, and all sorts of stuff that I couldn't eat. But I got through it, mostly because my beautiful parents brought me a caramel frappe from McDonald's and syringes it into my mouth.:) it was delightful. Most of this day I just laid watching tv or sleeping because I was still quite dosed up on morphine. There was a bit more pain, but nothing I couldn't cope with or didn't expect. Still better than what I had read about and was expecting.