Post surgery progress so far..

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I had my op (upper, lower, chin) last Friday so today is day 8 (I'm in

Australia so 1 day in front of most of you!). Just to report, my face

didn't swell up so much, and can only see very slight bruising under

white light, sunlight or a camera flash so I think I am doing pretty

well. I still have a bit of swelling on the sides of my nose, under my

jaw and my lips. I am mainly concerned about my lips.. I used to have

pretty thin lips and I am afraid that they are going to be a lot fuller

now.. Hopefully it is just the swelling. The OS also set my lower jaw

back so my chin looks a lot less prominent even with the genio, but

again hopefully it is more due to the swelling........... :/

In terms of eating, I've been eating stuff which I am sick to death of

such as congee, porridge etc. Yesterday I tried eating 2 slices of

bread, which I eventually managed after about 45 minutes. My jaw was

throbbing like hell afterwards though! How long did you guys wait until

you attempted real solid food again?