Doing much better today.
Any pain I have is simply mild discomfort, and it's a refreshing "healing" type of pain.
Not the "OMFG this sh!t hurts, when will it ever stop" type of pain.
I was able to down my 1st solid meal. Nothing gourmet mind you, but an entire box of macaroni & cheese, cooled down to luke warm temperatures. MMmmmm yum. Not!
On my road to recovery, which I'm glad. Very glad to have this stage of my life behind me.
Mind you, I strongly believe I was misdiagnosed from back in March of this year, when similar symptoms crept up, and my physician just threw meds at it, and essentially masked the underlying problem (that being the infection lurking just below).
Doesn't seem to be any permanent nerve damage either, as I can "feel" everything along the right side of my face.
So that's good. I can report though that he left the dissolvable stitches a little longer than I'd prefer, as I constantly have this feeling that something is loose, or brushing the inside of my mouth.
So annoying.
Just wanted to provide an update, and let you all know how I was doing.
Thanks again for everyone's thoughts, words, sprinkled with a smattering of humor.
Helped me get through it all!
