a new face......

I know that it has been a very long time since I wrote. I believe the last entry was when I crashed my car. My life has been on a wild ride since then.

Bought a new car!!!!!! Love me my VW Passat (Trigger)
Bought a tux and have been to two black tie events. FREE LIQUEUR AND FOOD
Had a very nice Christmas with the Lathams. Wonderful food and company Liesl's Dad rocks!
St. Patricks Day was a drunken haze. MMMMM BEER
Had a cute new neighbor move in downstairs. HOT HOT HOT
Had jaw surgery.

It has been eight days since my surgery. I went under the knife around 11am 3-30 and was in recovery around 4pm. The first thing I remember in recovery is that they kept telling me to breath. I guess I kept forgetting to do that. When I got back up to my room I had a wonderful Morphine pump. I when through 74ml of Morphine that night. So by the next morning I was feeling pretty good and not in a lot of pain. They took me off the pump and started me on percocet orally. I am guessing the Morphine was still in my system because I felt good enough to take a field trip down to the ER to visit my good friend Ryan. By the time I had walked down there though I knew I had bit off a little more than I could chew. About four of Dr. Louis's residents and himself saw me that next day. They all gave me glowing reports of how well the surgery had gone. Right after lunch the nurse came in with discharge papers and they let me go home around two. This was a big mistake on my part. I should have taken the option of staying one more night up on the seventh floor.

At home things went from bad to worse. The pain became almost to the point of being unbearable. I called the Doctor and they said I had the strongest pain meds they could call in. I started taking two percocet every four hours. (not supposed to do that) Needless to say I didn't get much rest that night or the rest of the weekend for that matter. Dr. Louis had called me in some 7.5 loratabs which we got filled Sun. Morning. I had gone through 20 of the percocet and switched over to the loratabs. By that time two 7.5's were kicking my ass and keeping my pain under control. By Tues. or Wed. I weaned myself down to one loratab 10 every four to six hours. That is was I am on now so forgive me if this doesn't make much sense. I discovered the hard way a really bad side effect of all that pain medicine. Can we say "constipation" boys and girls. Not taking a shit for about 6 days really sucks. I am not going to get into the details but I thought I was going to die!

My diet has luckily consists of oatmeal, apple sauce, boost, milkshakes, scrambled eggs and mac and cheese. I am not complaining at all it is way better than having my mouth wired shut and being on a liquid diet. I would however kill for some chips or a burger right now! I am going to be on the soft diet for a month.

The swelling at this point has gone down a lot but I still look like a chipmunk. The pain is also doing much better. The main time I have problems is at night trying to sleep. I am going to take some benadryl tonight and try and catch some zzzzzzz.

I took this week and next week off of work and hope to return mid April. My work has been wonderful letting me take this time so I can get this done. The surgery consisted of a bone graft in my sinus and the placement of five teeth implants plus they broke my jaw and slid it forward to correct my over bite.

I am really excited to see how everything turns out after the swelling and pain goes away. Oh yeah did I mention I can't feel any of my lower lips or jaw. That is fun watching me eat. It is amazing how much food your lower lip can hold for you.

I am going to try and get back to blogging again. I hope it will help me put my crazy thoughts into words again.