So it's been almost 2 weeks now since I've written anything. I thought for sure my life was interesting enough to write a blog...apparently I was wrong :-( or maybe I'm just not looking hard enough!
What's happened in the past 2 weeks?
Well, three weeks ago I was finally told I could eat Pasta, and Chicken and basically any soft foods, which you all know. This is the greatest excitement since the surgery and I've been having a ball eating pretty much ever since. With this new food ability I've also been able to drink again, there is nothing better to me than a glass of wine with dinner after a long day! So Yay! I get that back! I also went out for the first time in a month and a half two weeks ago, nothing exciting, just some Dunwoody Tavern Action followed by Cocktail Cove...which let me tell you, the name may have changed but it's still American Pie, the decorations and every thing are the same right down to the gross 50 year old men leering at you from the corner. (ugh! not my fav spot). It was nice to be out but I still didn't feel like I looked normal enough for buckhead or midtown.
Fathers day was AWESOME! My sister came to church and it was so cool to finally get her to see what my Dad and I are so Excited about each week! Then we went to the High Museum, Had lunch and walked around in the old days for a while seeing the Louvre Exhibit. It was super cool too because it was Target Family fun day. So Target was taking care of all admission and we got to have ice cream outside once we were done. It was such a great day with my dad and I know nothing made him happier than having both his girls at church with him!
Lets see, then there was Friday, Christina and I went out to finally celebrate her Birthday, She wanted me to be able to eat dinner before I bought her dinner...wise Idea I do believe. We were all set to go when we heard the first restaurant we picked was like eating in the middle of a club, you had to yell to talk to each other, so I picked out another, and then we couldn't find the darn place. I was pretty disappointed because I'd been to it's sister restaurant in Dunwoody and loved it. So we finally settled on Twist, Shout's sister. It was good, but Shout is better when it comes to sushi for sure. Then Cafe Intermezzo for dessert was awesome, again I had been to the dunwoody location but not midtown, Midtown has a great outdoor area!
I have to say though, I never felt like such a suburb girl as I did last weekend! I got lost on the way to dinner friday night, then Saturday I get lost twice trying to find my co-worker's house! I'm usually so good with directions I don't know what happened...except that google sucks! Map quest is worse though so what are you going to do?
Saturday night was spent at a cook-out with my Dad, Sister, and Friends. Well I had a lovely time and tasted some homemade wine that I'm now dying to go make! Can't wait! Sunday was spent at church, and then the trouble started... dun dun dun!
I spent Sunday afternoon in bed with an upset stomach followed by Monday with a headache all day, and then Tuesday I started the day throwing up and spent the whole day queezy and just in a yuck! By last night I was really nervous! I'm in Cameron's Wedding on Saturday and I can't spend the weekend weak and looking yellow!!! Luckily though I woke up today feeling great and refreshed and am raring to go, now if I could just find the time today to clean my apartment, pack, and go to small group...
Tomorrow should be interesting too! My Head Honcho Boss (the Chairman of the Company) will be in my apartment along with some other co-workers and the "talent" or as normal people call it, the paid actor, to shoot a commercial. It's all still in the idea stages, who knows if it will make it to TV or not, but it's exciting and also, OH MY GOSH! My Chairman will be walking around my little humble apartment... I gotta start scrubbing!!!!
Well that's all for now, I'll try to be more diligent so I don't write a novel every time!
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Monday, June 9, 2008
I Ate Food!
Hello Blogging world!
I realize that I started this fun blog and then promptly forgot about it. I apologize, I'm sorry but my life has been a little hectic lately.
That being said we can get on to the more exciting things at hand. I went to a lovely wedding this weekend, one of my best friends from High school got married. She looked GORGEOUS and absolutely happy. I am so incredibly happy for her! I must admit though, I haven't seen her in so long (she moved to Florida a few years ago and I left right after high school not to see much of her again) I found myself looking at this grown woman in front of me and seeing the young carefree teenager who used to steal all my cigarettes because she said if she never bought a pack then she was never really a smoker. (I've quit sense then...quit your judging!) I feel I missed a lot of the in-between in there somewhere which makes me a little sad, but really such is life, people grow up, move away and inevitably you're going to loose touch with some of them. Well anyway what I'm trying to say is that it was her big day, she looked amazing and you could tell she was truly happy which is really what's most important.
Now the big news for me in all this (wow, that sounded selfish...what I mean is that during her wonderful amazing event that I would never try to take away from, I also accomplished a milestone) I ate wedding cake! granted I had to first mush it with my fork and the very carefully place it into my mouth where I would mush it some more on the roof of my mouth before swallowing. but I ATE IT! It wasn't liquid and I ate it!
I first tried to mush a baby quiche (can you tell I was hungry?) with a fork but it was a little awkward trying to swallow that, but I was determined with the cake! :-)
Then we went to the lake Sunday and stopped at O'charley's on the way home where I ate not only soup but Bread and Key lime Pie as well! Yes, I know that bread and cake might as well be liquid since they'll eventually dissolve in your mouth and that key lime pie might as well be yogurt which is basically a liquid. However, up until Saturday afternoon I had not eaten anything that could not basically just fall from my mouth down my throat with very little effort since April 28th. That's basically six weeks of milkshakes and smoothies.
So if you can't tell, I'm a little excited!
Now if I could just get my cheeks to both be the same size that would be great! (One is much more swollen than the other because my jaw was widened on that side)
I realize that I started this fun blog and then promptly forgot about it. I apologize, I'm sorry but my life has been a little hectic lately.
That being said we can get on to the more exciting things at hand. I went to a lovely wedding this weekend, one of my best friends from High school got married. She looked GORGEOUS and absolutely happy. I am so incredibly happy for her! I must admit though, I haven't seen her in so long (she moved to Florida a few years ago and I left right after high school not to see much of her again) I found myself looking at this grown woman in front of me and seeing the young carefree teenager who used to steal all my cigarettes because she said if she never bought a pack then she was never really a smoker. (I've quit sense then...quit your judging!) I feel I missed a lot of the in-between in there somewhere which makes me a little sad, but really such is life, people grow up, move away and inevitably you're going to loose touch with some of them. Well anyway what I'm trying to say is that it was her big day, she looked amazing and you could tell she was truly happy which is really what's most important.
Now the big news for me in all this (wow, that sounded selfish...what I mean is that during her wonderful amazing event that I would never try to take away from, I also accomplished a milestone) I ate wedding cake! granted I had to first mush it with my fork and the very carefully place it into my mouth where I would mush it some more on the roof of my mouth before swallowing. but I ATE IT! It wasn't liquid and I ate it!
I first tried to mush a baby quiche (can you tell I was hungry?) with a fork but it was a little awkward trying to swallow that, but I was determined with the cake! :-)
Then we went to the lake Sunday and stopped at O'charley's on the way home where I ate not only soup but Bread and Key lime Pie as well! Yes, I know that bread and cake might as well be liquid since they'll eventually dissolve in your mouth and that key lime pie might as well be yogurt which is basically a liquid. However, up until Saturday afternoon I had not eaten anything that could not basically just fall from my mouth down my throat with very little effort since April 28th. That's basically six weeks of milkshakes and smoothies.
So if you can't tell, I'm a little excited!
Now if I could just get my cheeks to both be the same size that would be great! (One is much more swollen than the other because my jaw was widened on that side)
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Trials and Tribulations following Jaw Surgery
Tomorrow is a very exciting day in the life of me! I will get the splint out of my mouth! It has been 5 weeks today since my surgery and since people have been able to easily understand what I'm saying. The splint is holding my upper jaw in place as it heals from being widened. But as of 4:30 tomorrow it will be gone! I'll be able to speak clearly, and hopefully be able to close my lips for the first time in FIVE WEEKS!
I'm very excited if you can't tell. For the past 5 weeks I have been carrying around a wash cloth everywhere I go to make sure and catch any drool that might fall out of my mouth. I still can't feel my bottom lip which is problematic since I have no warning until drool hits my chest that it is even falling out of my mouth. My hands are pealing (most likely from a vitamin deficiency), I can't blow my nose (and have never had so much milk in my life, which means I have plenty of mucous), I have a splint in my mouth that is in the way of my tongue so my speech sounds like a deaf person talking, and did I mention I can't close me lips?
The good news is my nails have never been so strong, and I think I've lost weight, I don't own a scale though (that falls under the trials and tribulations of house breaking a puppy) so I can't be sure. Hopefully once the splint is out and I can close my lips again I can get back to a regular work out schedule and that will help boost my energy. Hopefully after tomorrow it will also be easier to drink out of a cup and then I can incorporate soup and other things besides smoothies into my diet.
It's been a very long roller coaster ride since this process has started, I have days where I'm deep in the dark place and don't even want to look in the mirror, then I have other days where I'm pretty happy and will brave the outdoors and seeing people. But I will be very excited when this is all over and I can stop hiding from the camera, that's for sure!
I think that's all for today. Hopefully I'll have a very happy post for later this week!
I'm very excited if you can't tell. For the past 5 weeks I have been carrying around a wash cloth everywhere I go to make sure and catch any drool that might fall out of my mouth. I still can't feel my bottom lip which is problematic since I have no warning until drool hits my chest that it is even falling out of my mouth. My hands are pealing (most likely from a vitamin deficiency), I can't blow my nose (and have never had so much milk in my life, which means I have plenty of mucous), I have a splint in my mouth that is in the way of my tongue so my speech sounds like a deaf person talking, and did I mention I can't close me lips?
The good news is my nails have never been so strong, and I think I've lost weight, I don't own a scale though (that falls under the trials and tribulations of house breaking a puppy) so I can't be sure. Hopefully once the splint is out and I can close my lips again I can get back to a regular work out schedule and that will help boost my energy. Hopefully after tomorrow it will also be easier to drink out of a cup and then I can incorporate soup and other things besides smoothies into my diet.
It's been a very long roller coaster ride since this process has started, I have days where I'm deep in the dark place and don't even want to look in the mirror, then I have other days where I'm pretty happy and will brave the outdoors and seeing people. But I will be very excited when this is all over and I can stop hiding from the camera, that's for sure!
I think that's all for today. Hopefully I'll have a very happy post for later this week!
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