Day 4 - Hunger Kicks In

I'm not sure if I'm hungry, or just really want to put food in my mouth.  Finally I am starting to feel normal.  I am not as drowsy or tired as the days before.  I don't want to encourage not taking prescribed medication, but I feel that it helped a lot with my nausea, and therefore, encouraged me to eat more food.  I understand that antibiotics are still very important, so I made it a point to drink it at least 3 times a day, 10ml each time.

I think my swelling is officially peaking. I look the most ridiculous I've looked thus far, but I've been saying that everyday since day 2, but really, look at the photos.  Last night, I started using a warm compress to loosen and relax my muscles.  I sat on the massage chair, upright, pretty much the whole day, as suggested to keep the swelling down.

Out of boredom, I watched the last 45 minutes of Charlie St. Cloud, and realized for the first time what all the fuss was about with Zac Efron.  After looking at his face very closely, you just realize that he can't be human, because he's too perfect to be a human. Off topic, I'm sorry.

I got flowers from my boyfriend and my lovely friend dropped off a care package with so many goodies!  I am pretty sure I scared her off with my awfully large face, but I was so happy to see her for 2 seconds.  I don't really suggest having company for the first week though.  You just don't feel good, your face is large, and you really want time to recover to a point where you feel sort of normal.   Her goodies really helped a ton!  She brought chapstick, coconut water, apple sauce, snack pack pudding, decaf herbal teas, and hand warmers.  I highly suggest that you purchase a hot & cold gel pack  for when you are ready to keep your jaw warm.

Today I'm so hungry that I am running around the house trying to find something to eat.  I end up blending another Campbell's soup but this one had rice in it, big mistake.  It ended up being way too hard to eat through the little crevices in my teeth.  I ended up boiling ramen, and only drinking the soup, so sad.  But I was mainly happy that something tasted good!  Back to the idea of finding things you can eat before you go into surgery so you don't suffer like me.

I am liking the baths to not only help me keep clean, but to also relax my jaw muscles.  I recommend finding pajamas that open in the front for the first few days so you don't have to pull your clothes above you face.

I thought I'd be able to sleep without pain killers today, but I was wrong.  I tossed and turned until about 1am, so I just got fed up with it and took 5ml of hydrocodone.  I believe you are also prescribed children's ibuprofen to take instead, but I forgot to buy that so I'm just taking smaller doses of the hydrocodone still.

Take-Away:
1) You will start to become very hungry.
2) You hope your face will be less ridiculous tomorrow.
3) Zac Efron may be possible alien.
4) You don't want to schedule visits from friends in the first week.
5) Ramen soup tastes good!