home from the hospital

So here I am at day 1 after the surgery. Obviously looking a little swollen. This is what I call my "Jay Leno face".
Doc says tomorrow should be a little more swollen, then start to go down about day 3 or 4. Can't wait.

Came home from the hospital today. Feeling “better”. Last night was awful, a mix of sleeping and waking up from the pain. My pain management has been better today though and I am able to get up and walk around. Having finishing finals the morning before the surgery (finished at 9, surgery at noon) I was very cooperative with the deep breathing exercises, rolling my ankles and walking around- since both my finals (pathology & microbiology) dealt a lot with blood clotting, bacterial infections etc. I’m oober paranoid.

Nick has been a great. He blends my food, wipes my mouth and keeps me “laughing”, more like a gurgling sound at this point. I have rubber bands on my teeth now (and they will remain there for ~8 weeks so that my jaw doesn’t relapse), but I can mumble fairly audibly and Nick is very patient. He is also doing a great job as my personal photographer, so that I have lots of pictures to post on this blog.

No feeling in my chin yet, but my lower lip hurts so I'm thinking that's a good sign.