Why might you ask is there a bloody picture of the elevator scene in The Shining on the blog today? Well because this is what my mouth looked liked for about 7 hours after surgery. Literally saying “might see some blood” following surgery was the understatement of THE YEAR! Literally at one point the look on Matt’s face while I was having a panic attack said it all, Matt was super worried. And I don’t like blood…seeing so much of it gave me the worst panic attack and I was on the verge of passing out. So we did call the doctors emergency number, who said this can be normal. WTF? It was so awful I couldn’t even rest we had to change the gauze out every 15 minutes for HOURS and it was way worse than I thought. The next 4 days were spent bed, face swollen and in pain. And today is the 5th day after surgery and I am still swollen, in pain and only eating liquid and soft foods and at this point I am literally scared to chew. I don’t want to hurt myself or mess up any of the healing that has happened. One thing I didn’t expect so much was the pain in my jaw from the surgery I guess. That seems to hurt worse than the holes in my mouth and it is still hard to open my mouth to talk or to eat. I am trying to do things today because…..well….life calls but I am OVER this. Why does God give us these wisdom teeth (5 in my case) if they just have to be forcefully removed in a horrid way??????
UGH!!!!!!!
OMG thought of you and Matt, the Farmers Insurance float in the Rose Parade was INSANE!! How are you guys not on that. Hope you got to see it!-Sarah
Sending get well wishes your way!