2003-12-23 - 11:43 p.m.
wow! mouth surgery! grades! good academic standing! christmas shopping! let me backtrack.
went to the hospital. put on the little gown and everything. yes, they have no back, but they gave me two so i could wear one as a jacket to walk around in. got measured (i'm not even 5'3, i'm 5'2 and 3/4) and weighed (121 with a gown, i'd like to stress that it was a heavy gown made of lead with heavy jewels and beads on it), temperature taken (a brisk 97.5), blood pressure (i have no idea but it's usually low).
then IV in went. okay...ouch. the actual IV doesn't hurt. but they basically go through a pattern of smacking your vein to make it pop out and rubbing it with alcohol until it's big and popalicious and that's what hurts - having someone sitting there smacking your hand.
then, wheeled into the operating room. jacket-gown is removed, various sticky electrodes and heart monitors on my fingers are attached, as well as a showercap thingy. i look over at the nurse polishing scalpels and think: ouch. i think i want to cry now.
the next thought i have is, the nurse is telling me my dad is here to see me. wow, instantaneous IV anesthetics rock my world! i have a tube in my nose and my eyes and ears are smudged with vasoline. i drink apple juice and put my "street" clothes back on. some blood from the stiching fills up in my mouth and i spit blood into a bucket for a while. then i'm free to go.
and then, sleeping. i sleep from about noon to 5...then about 6 to 11...then about 11 to 12 this afternoon. i wake up completely healed and feeling fine, except for yanno, there's a roof of my mouth where there wasn't one before. my parents say i'm speaking a lot more clearly, but the "s" isn't perfect yet cause there's still swelling and stitches and all that jazz. i go through periods of being happy and being disappointed and impatient for results. i also drink water every 10 seconds to make sure it's not coming out of my nose/be amazed that it's not coming out of my nose, also look at it a lot to make sure everything's in place.
liquid diet? not so bad. ensure - tastes pretty good. soup through a blender, also good. it's all liquids for me until i visit the doctor on tuesday, then it's up to him. the swelling went down a lot in one day already - yesterday it was like a big slimy tootsie roll.
but yeah, i feel great. no pain at all - the only thing that hurt actually was my throat from the breathing tube they put down there. i got dressed and showered and even finished my christmas shopping at the mall. and it does hurt a little sometimes just cause my tongue is constantly rubbing against it. but i'll feel a lot more reassured when i see the dude on tuesday and he tells me it's healing perfectly, etc. etc.
oh, and grades were up today. check this fucking shit out:
Death, Dying, & Afterlife - A-
German - A
Development of Math - B+
Info Tech - C
no more probation, bitches! thank god.
i should wrap presents cause hey - it's christmas eve!
i can't tell you all how happy i am that i'm feeling fine. i thought i would be bed-ridden, nauseous from painkillers and moaning in agony and unable to speak. but i feel great. yeehaw! merry christmas yo!
