tonsillectomy time

i've been in ohio for a little over two weeks.  but i haven't done much:
i had surgery early last week and have been recovering* since.


day 1
surgery at noon, home by 3 or 4, out of it from anesthesia and blissfully unaware.

day 2
trying to swallow liquid vicodin and out for the count on the couch.

day 3
bring on the "real" pain, and the fever and the chills and the puking at night.  switch to percocet.

day 4
day three revisted.  earaches also start.  eating: watermelon, jello and diluted apple juice.

day 5
flu-y feeling is gone, but the pain is almost unbearable.  nurse mom is out of town for the night.

day 6
day five revisited.  getting so hungry but can't eat much or well. more of the same plus mac&cheese!

day 7
tried to eat a normal dinner, dizzy on percocet, more middle-of-the-night making out with the toilet (x2).

day 8
i forget.  not bad enough to remember, or blocked out? stopped the Rx pain killers for tylenol.

day 9
post-op appointment = all good news**, went grocery shopping then had a three hour nap.  ate cereal!

day 10
i got my hair done*** and finally felt a bit normal. mornings still hard. eating: soft, but normal, food.

day 11
went to the mall**** and ate an almost normal dinner. pain helps remind me i still need to take it easy.

day 12
today.  mornings still painful. up at night for tylenol. now it just feels like a bad***** sore throat.

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day 12 part two
mostly normal dinner, sans alcohol. at night, scab came off, spit blood for 5 minutes = totally unnerved.

day 13
mornings [still] suck. made house visit to doc re: bleeding, says i'm 90% healed and okay for going back.
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so, that's that.  no more tonsils for me!

another week or so of soft foods (no chips or crackers or things with sharp edges) and lots of fluids.  another week or two after that of tightness in my throat. then i should be good to go. it doesn't guarantee no sore throats, but it should decrease their frequency and the need for antibiotics, which was about five or six times a year. so yay, the worst is over. (thank god).


*sleeping, puking, eating jello, taking narcotics, popping tylenol, drooling, doing pretty much nothing.

**in the doctor's office
doc: have you been throwing up? (one of his first questions...oh, he knew...)
me: um yeah, you could say that.

doc: the good news is, you never have to do it again.
me: good, because i don't think i'd sign up for it again.

doc: let's have a look.
doc: well, everything looks good.  you might even be ahead of schedule.

me: it feels like there's something stuck in my throat.
doc: that's because there is; your uvula is about 3 times the size it should be...
me: is that normal?
doc: well, your tonsils were so big that i had to make the incision close to your uvula.  and then throw some acid on there...
me: so, it's pissed.
doc: yeah, pretty much.

***light brown went to very much blonde. actually, very blonde highlights in some natural red that came through. :)

****sur la table, anthropologie, north face, lululemon...i am a lucky girl.

*****my pain scale seems to have been skewed considerably and unnaturally.  what i have now would still keep me home from work, but it feels like NOTHING compared to the last week and a half.