Greetings from the other side.....

[Guest guest]

I just got back from the hospital from my upper and lower surgery.

Ouch!!!!

I'm swallen and drooly, and eating is much harder than I thought. But

percocet helps .

The surgery went very well according to the surgeons, everything went

right in place, and it also took shorter than 6 hours that they were

planning (4.5 instead). I'm neither wired no banded though - the

surgeon said he'll band me couple of days later. Eating is more

difficult than what I thought it was going to be - I feel a lot of

pressure when I try to swallow. I slept pretty well at night thanks

to the drugs, but turns out I had to ask for pain meds - they were not

automatically given. Also, every time I ran up a nurse, they kept

coming over the loudspeaker asking me what I wanted - I just had jaw

surgery and couldn't really speak! The phone call from a guy trying

to verify my patient information wasn't very helpful either. I'm numb

in my chin, but in other areas I'm having " pins and needles " feeling -

which is a good sign.

I'm going to go rest, but feel free to ask me any questions.

Irene.