LewSpears

Day four of recovery

Added 2023-08-28 08:12:46 +0000 UTC

Hey all! First post from me so far, feeling much better today, mum drove me to the beach to get some fresh air which was beautiful. She and Jasmine has been taking excellent care of me the last 4 days.

I’m still very very swollen and don’t have much movement in my lower jaw yet as my jaw muscles need to stretch before they get used to the new position everything is in.

Slept okay last night despite the pain, I don’t think I’ll notice too much improvement in my sleep for a few weeks, I’ve swapped sleep apnea for healing pains temporarily.

But! As I sat near the beach, I took a wonderful deep breath, my first that wasn’t obstructed by overly swollen lips and god it was incredible.

My lungs fill so much faster now, I can feel how much wider and clearer my airway is. Despite all the pain and swelling I couldn’t help but smile (ouch).

Yesterday I read all your comments and messages, I wanted to say thank you. I am blown away that people have stuck by me through all of this, especially you.

We have a follow up appointment with the surgeon on the 30th, hopefully I’ll get all this tape off my face then.

Don’t know when the elastic bands holding my lith shut come out, but hopefully in the next two or three weeks.

Still not too sure what I’m going to look like at the end of all this, you can’t tell on photos but I’m incredibly puffy, everywhere.

The first three days are the hardest everyone said, I’m in day four and I think they were right.

It’s smooth sailing from here on out.

Lew