Re: Drinking with straw!

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Hey Jane,

I guess one thing I'll be asking my oral surgeon when I see him on

Monday is if I can use a straw. My discharge instructions said I

couldn't, which is weird since when I talked to the OS before surgery

he said it was OK. Oh well....

Went out to the Japanese/Korean restaurant today. I had some dinner

at home (blenderized, of course), but was starving by the time I got

to the restaurant. Husband was such a troupper - didn't order

anything, even though I know he wanted to. But he felt too sorry for

me . I ended up ordering miso soup, taking all the seaweed out of

it, crushing tofu, and drinking it. It was good, but I didn't realize

piece of tofu was stuck to my upper teeth until I got home. No that I

did much smiling anyway, since it hurts like hell.

I'm also still numb, but primarily in my lower lip and chin, and more

on the left side than the right. They moved my lower jaw back and to

the left (like yours). I seem to have feeling in my upper face, I

only have weird feeling where I'm swollen. My chin also feels very

warm and heavy, and I think I've gotten some sensation in it in the

last week - hope it keeps progressing. Hopefully by the time you get

unwired you'll have significantly more feeling.

Irene.

>

> I was just thinking this wednesday will be 3 weeks wired:21 days. I

> can't believe it myself. Well looking at me I could becuase I'm thin

> as a rail: not sexy but skeletal. Well, today I managed to start

> with a straw. I don't know if I like it or not. Feels more natural

> than a syringe but seems worse for my teeth. And seems to take

> longer. I don't know. Nothing seems " natural " in all of this.

> Although I am getting unusually use to this splint. New worries:

> getting it out.I have passed the stage of hunger. No more restless

> nights planning what and where I'm going to eat. I sleep well now

> and have become uninterested in food. A coworker brought over a

> banana pudding today. I put a big blob in the blender with whipping

> cream and milk and drank it up! It was delicious. My face seems to

> be getting some feeling back. My chin has been cold on the left side

> today. It feels like theres drool on it and I check every so many

> minutes but nothings there. Other than that still numb from eyelids

> down. I wonder if I will be numb after the splint comes out? Surely

> not I hope.

>

> Jane