I made it to the other side

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I started to write last night but was too weak and had to sit back

in my lounge chair. Had my surgery the 17th, upper moved up and

widened and chin moved foward (a surprise to me). Waking up in

recovery was like being in a nightmare. They couldn't get one

nostril to stop bleeding and I could not breathe. After getting to

my room and getting the wonderful mask put on, it wasn't so bad.

After about 8 hours when I had to get up to use the restroom, I got

real sick and threw up but I'll tell you, that was the best thing to

happen...no more nausea. The 3rd and 4th days were the worst. My

second night home I had a major panic attack and luckily I had asked

my doc for xanax so took one and felt better. Woke up Monday fine,

a few hours later another panic attack..called the doc in tears

begging to take the bands off. Got valium instead, has helped.

Still pretty swollen and starting to see bruising. My kids are

being real good, I think they are scared of me (10, 6 and 3). My

mom lives with me right now so her and my hubby have been

wonderful. I go to the doc on Monday to get these bands taken off.

One of the worst parts of this is the taste of all these meds.

Having to disolve the Valium an Xanax, the Tylenol with Codiene, the

Dimeatap and the nasal spray...yuck yuck!! Thanks hor listening. -

Nicki