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Strawberry Smoothies and Banana Custard
Mar. 2nd, 2008 12:36 pmThank you to all those who wished me well with my dental surgery. All done, and probably not as bad as I thought it was going to be.
My jaw and mouth are still very swollen and the stiches already itch inside my mouth, but other than that I'm surprised at how well I'm doing. I was in surgery at 4pm Friday afternoon and by 7pm I was struggling to wake up in recovery. No nausea, just the struggle to drag myself out of the 'sleep'. It took me a good 30 minutes to properly wake up, then they gave me some jelly and icecream. As long as I could keep it down I could go home. And, eat it I did. I was starving, having not eaten anything for 24hours, and it didn't make me a bit ill.
I still can't open my mouth too far so all that's going in at the moment are lots of strawberry smoothies, yoghurt, Milo icecream bars (they're great! so creamy!) and the best of all... banana custard. I wasn't too sure about this one when my wife brought it home in the shopping, but one mouthful was enough to have me addicted. Beautiful stuff it is. I could just drink it straight from the carton. And it is great hot as well as cold!
The pain killers they've given me are quite good too, and have really helped me sleep. I have to sleep upright for 3 days, propped up in bed with pillows, and I really couldn't sleep that way normally (I'm a face-down sleeper) but the drugs put me out like a light. The stitches are disolving stitches that should disappear in a week or so, and I've got a post-op checkup on Monday week just to make sure everything is fine. I think it will be though.
After all my fears and worries about this (and yes, I was quite freaked out) I can definitely say that the doctors and staff made everything wonderful. They were great, and really good at making me feel at ease both before and after the operation. I can't say it has totally released me from my dislike of dentists, but it has definitely gone a good way towards lessening that dislike. I won't be making the mistake of putting something like this off for so long again.
I spent all yesterday in bed, doing nothing but reading. I finished Iain M.Banks' new Culture novel 'Matter' - which I enjoyed (more so in the 2nd half of the book) but don't rank it as one of his SF best. "Use of Weapons" still takes that prize, with "Consider Phlebas" and/or "Feersum Endjinn" the next favourites. Matter is probably up there with 'Look to Windward' but has more the style of 'Inversions'. Some readers will probably get a little confused with the 'fantasy' elements of the novel, but I think they worked quite well. All in all, I thought that the book was very much an expansion on what he had attempted previously with 'Inversions' (that Culture novel that isn't really a Culture novel). I think I liked his recent 'mainstream' "The Steep Approach to Garbadale" better though.
My jaw and mouth are still very swollen and the stiches already itch inside my mouth, but other than that I'm surprised at how well I'm doing. I was in surgery at 4pm Friday afternoon and by 7pm I was struggling to wake up in recovery. No nausea, just the struggle to drag myself out of the 'sleep'. It took me a good 30 minutes to properly wake up, then they gave me some jelly and icecream. As long as I could keep it down I could go home. And, eat it I did. I was starving, having not eaten anything for 24hours, and it didn't make me a bit ill.
I still can't open my mouth too far so all that's going in at the moment are lots of strawberry smoothies, yoghurt, Milo icecream bars (they're great! so creamy!) and the best of all... banana custard. I wasn't too sure about this one when my wife brought it home in the shopping, but one mouthful was enough to have me addicted. Beautiful stuff it is. I could just drink it straight from the carton. And it is great hot as well as cold!
The pain killers they've given me are quite good too, and have really helped me sleep. I have to sleep upright for 3 days, propped up in bed with pillows, and I really couldn't sleep that way normally (I'm a face-down sleeper) but the drugs put me out like a light. The stitches are disolving stitches that should disappear in a week or so, and I've got a post-op checkup on Monday week just to make sure everything is fine. I think it will be though.
After all my fears and worries about this (and yes, I was quite freaked out) I can definitely say that the doctors and staff made everything wonderful. They were great, and really good at making me feel at ease both before and after the operation. I can't say it has totally released me from my dislike of dentists, but it has definitely gone a good way towards lessening that dislike. I won't be making the mistake of putting something like this off for so long again.
I spent all yesterday in bed, doing nothing but reading. I finished Iain M.Banks' new Culture novel 'Matter' - which I enjoyed (more so in the 2nd half of the book) but don't rank it as one of his SF best. "Use of Weapons" still takes that prize, with "Consider Phlebas" and/or "Feersum Endjinn" the next favourites. Matter is probably up there with 'Look to Windward' but has more the style of 'Inversions'. Some readers will probably get a little confused with the 'fantasy' elements of the novel, but I think they worked quite well. All in all, I thought that the book was very much an expansion on what he had attempted previously with 'Inversions' (that Culture novel that isn't really a Culture novel). I think I liked his recent 'mainstream' "The Steep Approach to Garbadale" better though.
