Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Surgery day

Disclaimer: I apologize for any typos or nonsense, for I still am pretty loopy from the morphine.

So today I had orthognathic surgery (jaw surgery) and a geinoplasty (chin augmentation). So whenever I woke up from this surgery, I immediately thought "why the hell did I do this" and to be honest, I'm still having those thoughts. It's been about 6 .5 hours since my surgery and my mouth still us bleeding pretty badly. I have to use one of those dental suction thingies to to drain out blood about every  3 minutes. I did have some pain in my jaw joints (no doubt due to my tmj issues) and I also experienced pain right underneath my chin. As far as swelling goes, the top part of my face is completely normal, however right at my bottom lip and below, I'm a blueberry. Except you know, not blue.


See what I mean? 

 The worst part for me right now is the discomfort, blood, and my hunger. I have not had anything since 11:30 last night (now 8:45) and my stomach is making noises like it's being totrtured. They gave me a cup of water to try to drink out of, but honestly I scared. I have no idea how in the world they expect me to drink that because it literally feels like I don't have a bottom jaw right now. But I'll give it a shot because my throat definitely needs it. 

Well that's all for now, I'll try to update tomorrow, but if I don't, except one soon :) 

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