Day 2 - I'm back home!

I slept alright overnight. Woke up a few times as they had to check my vitals every couple of hours and I had to constantly empty my bladder being hooked up to the IV. Perhaps it was all a dream, but there was this really cute nurse that walked in midway through the night. I remember thinking, if only I didn't look like a blowfish... I guess my inability to talk didn't help either!

I wasn't feeling very much pain. I had told my surgeon the day before that I was a 2/10 on the pain scale so they didn't give me any morphine overnight. Visiting hours didn't start until 2:00 PM so there wasn't very much I could do. They gave me some kind of milky breakfast gruel and orange juice in the morning. I had the orange juice and a little bit of the breakfast gruel, but didn't feel like having much more. I wasn't nauseated which was a good sign and my nasal passage was pretty clear, albeit somewhat crusty.

They let me get up and take a walk in the hallway dragging my IV around. It felt good to be up and walking. Slept a little more, had tomato soup for lunch. Dad came by a little after 2:00 PM. Talked to him for a bit but I think he was mainly just nodding and pretending he understood what I was saying. For some reason, I've been salivating like crazy. It must be due to the plastic splint they put in my mouth. In any case, the combination of not brushing, breakfast gruel, tomato soup and lots of saliva did not make for a good aftertaste!!

My surgeon came by at around 4:00 PM and asked the nurses how I was doing. They said I had been a model patient. He took a quick look at my pumpkin sized face and said I could go home. My surgeon thought I hadn't swollen up a lot but the right side of my face seemed huge to me and for some reason the left side of my lower jaw was swollen too even though he didn't do any work there.

Anyway, it was good to be home. I had pea soup for dinner, watched a little TV and it was lights out for me.