Day 2 - Face Explosion

As expected, my face is on its way to full balloon.  Double chin action is getting stronger.  Today I felt well enough to leave my room cave I've created with essentials in arms reach.  I started to "watch" tv shows and movies, and by watch I mean mostly sleep through.  But the noise in the background was much nicer than silence.  All of my family members worked through the day so from 9am to 2pm I was on my own.  I was very weak still so a helping hand was always nice.  My family would help change my water cup, clean the syringes, bring me medicine, change out of my ice packs, and make my bed comfortable.  Communicating is almost impossible still, and I don't dare to make any noise yet.  Everything is written on a notepad, but to be honest, at this point I was not really wanting to make the effort to communicate anyway, I was too tired.

I don't know how many times to say it, but the medicine is disgusting!!  This day it was affecting me the worst.  I had still not made much attempt to eat or drink anything other than water.  The 10ml of Ensure that I did try to drink, was awful, but I knew I needed something other than the medicine so I forced it down my throat.  I also had a few sips of Naked Juice - Berry Blast.  The hardest part is that the antibiotic says it is most effective on an empty stomach.  What they don't tell you really is that if you're drinking only pain killer and antibiotics for a few days, it's going to affect your digestion.  And by they don't tell you that, I mean yes it is written in the fine print of the side-effects but I felt like I had not heard or read about this in anything I've looked through.  Bearer of bad news: you're going to have to go to the bathroom.  It was awful, I was still in pain from the surgery but my stomach was hurting way more and I didn't want to take any medicine to make it worse.  I decided to only take the pain killer at night starting this day.  The penicillin I just took twice, once in the morning and once at night.

By this point, I'm not sure how much weight I've lost but I suppose it's mainly water weight.  As long as I feel good, the weight isn't much of a concern for me at this point.  For anyone who cares, I weigh about 115-120 lbs typically, and I am about 5'4".

I also tried to brush my teeth today.  Mainly because it helped me from not wanting to vomit all the time.  I spent most of the night spitting into a trashcan because I just felt too nauseous.  Drooling will be an issue when you sleep like I've mentioned before, but I am not having drooling problems during the day like others I've read about.  Probably the dehydration kicking in.

Take-Away:
1) Your face will look ridiculous, and when you look in the mirror you'll want to laugh.
2) Ensure is disgusting.
3) You will go to the bathroom for many reasons.
4) You won't want to drink your medicine anymore, but you should probably follow directions.
5) Brushing teeth helps.