Day 28: One Month Anniversary

It's been a month! While the first two weeks seemed to have taken an eternity, this last two weeks have flown by. I can't believe it's been a month. In honor of that, I have posted some more pics of the surgery day (I was finally able to get them off of my mom's camera). I'll post them on today's post, and the surgery day's post.

As far as today goes, there hasn't been much improvement. I do feel like I am regaining more control of the muscles in my face allowing me more facial expressions. My chin doesn't feel as completely numb, but still predominately numb. I didn't have much, hardly any actually, pain. I did have another "food-first" (since the surgery) today in the form of the contents of a burrito. I poured the burrito's insides into a bowl and ate the tortilla afterwards. While I wasn't able to fully enjoy the burrito experience of the tortilla, the mess, and having to open your mouth as wide as you can with each bite. I did get to experience the mess (as with every meal at this point, but getting better with each day) and the delicious hot and cold flavors in my mouth. It was delicious!

I am talking better but still not perfect. I noticed a couple people giving me weird looks as I talked to them, as if they may have been wondering why I am talking funny. This happened while I was running errands, doing mature things like paying bills, going to the bank-nothing exciting. For a brief time I felt old, mature, older than my age. Then, I realized I was wearing a Mickey Mouse shirt and had to laugh.

I had a family friend be admitted to the hospital today. I went to visit her with my mom. She was placed on a restricted diet while there. I got to see her restricted diet menu, which brought me right back to the day I was in the hospital after the surgery (it was the same hospital, too). Her menu had three full columns of choices, while I remember mine (a clear liquids only diet) that was made up of about a half dozen choices. I can still not eat most of what was on her menu! That was a bit of a bummer, but it reminded me of all the progress I have made in the last month.

Now, enjoy some before-surgery pictures and some immediately-after-surgery pictures.

These two (above) were taken in the waiting room the morning of the surgery. No, that's not a milk-mustach but a mustache tan line.