Day 3...

Today was eventful – I actually got to leave the house! 

Last night was fine.  I slept through most of it and took my ice off my face around 2am or so.  I slept for another four hours after that – it’s the little things, right?  I feel like such a six month old (have I mentioned that already? I think so…moving on).

Here’s my face shot for the day – this was before we went to the doctor’s office for a follow up.  I actually got up, bathed, got dressed and combed my hair.  Woah!



The swelling on the right is worse than on the left.  This same phenomena happened with my wisdom teeth.  If I were a betting person and had someone to bet with – my right side will go down in the next day or so and the left side will flair up.  That’d be my guess.  If I blew the picture up some more, you could probably see the green-ish bruising on the sides of my chin.  From the surgeon’s big ol’ man hands. 

I got a good report at the doctor’s office today.  They cleaned up my teeth and said that I had been doing a good job keeping them clean.  It makes sense because I don’t like feeling like I have a nasty mouth!  They took an x-ray of my mouth when I got to the office.  It’s so wild to see the “blank” places in my mouth where the jaw moved forward.  The estimations are on the left about 10mm (or 1 cm) and the right 7-8 mm.  Think about that – one centimeter?  That’s like >___< that far…or so. Whatever.  Apparently I look great as far as the swelling goes and I’m “leaps and bounds” ahead of most other people who go through this.  I suppose I am just an overachiever.  My bite is a little off to the right – but with some muscle training we can fix that.

It’s supposed to be downhill on the swelling from here.  I can tell a difference already between how I feel tonight and how I felt this morning when I woke up.  Each day should be easier and I go back for another appointment with the doctor on Tuesday afternoon.  Then he will take out the stitches on my face (which the tape is starting to itch a little now) and I’ll get inspected and cleaned up again. 

Besides the doctor’s appointment today – I also started on one of my puzzles.  I took a much needed nap.  I also went for a walk in the neighborhood and saw a few neighbors.  It was nice to get out and get some fresh air.  I hate sitting around all day – but I know I need to right now. 

Our next door neighbor, Cara, stopped by today with a little gift bag.  She’s so sweet – she brought me some supplies to make some strawberry-blueberry smoothies.  She knows how much I enjoy a healthy little smoothie! :-)  She brought enough for three and I said “Yay! Three smoothies for me!”  The Mr. says, “Three?  I get one of them!!” ha.  He’s so funny.

This weekend will probably be slow.  I have no real plans for the Super Bowl – obviously.  I thought one of the neighbors was going to do something so then at least he could get out of the house and be social.  I am sure he’s tired of just looking at me all day.